Panasonic AG-HMC80PJ Editing AVCHD with Final Cut Pro 7 - Page 12

STEP #3 - CREATE Blu-Ray DISC Click on Create Blu-ray disc. This opens a slide out panel where you enter your output device (where you will burn your disc). Note: you will need an external Blu-ray burner to burn Blu-ray. However, you can burn an AVCHD disc (which is a duration-limited Blu-ray image on standard DVD media, using the Mac's internal DVD/Super Drive). You are limited to 20 minutes of AVCHD footage on a DVD-5 disc and 40 minutes on a DVD-9 disc. The AVCHD disc will play High Definition in a Blu-ray player. You can also create this Disc image to your hard drive for later burning, or as a disk image backup. Here you also can do some elementary Blu-ray authoring. FCP 7 even includes some templates for menus. STEP #4 - CLICK EXPORT That's all there is to it. Your movie will now burn as a Blu-ray or AVCHD disc. For more information on AVCHD discs, please visit: www.apple.com/support/finalcutpro Note: Remember that this exporting is a background process, so you can continue working. outputing to standard definition dvd Even though you have shot your material on high definition and edited it in HD, you still might need to downconvert it to standard definition to show your movie. AVCHD footage will make dazzling standard definition DVDs. And as always, it is very easy in FCP 7. STEP #1 - CLICK ON FILE > SHARE 12