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Exporting HD video for FCP

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I have HD video set to a song for a family vacation movie. I want to export with as high settings as possible and I'm using the compressor. I have set 2 new targets - HD mpeg-2 and Dolby Digital 2.0. However when I submit for processing, after it all goes through, I end up with a .mkv file and a .ac3 file. So pure audio and pure video that I can't play together! How do I put things settings together so that they come out as one smooth video??

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You're outputing for DVD when you get those two files. What you want to do is forget Compressor. I'll assume you're in Final Cut Pro? Just Export > QuickTime Movie, and set it to be self-contained, turn off "Recompress Frames". That's your best quality output.

Unless you are wanting to make a DVD, then you take those two files into DVD Studio Pro to author your DVD.
 

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