Need Urgent Help With Compressor

Hi All,

I have read Ken's instruction on operating Compressor.
I need to convert *.mov files into m2v (MPEG2).

I'm doing everything as instructed.
I get nice MPEG-2 structure with video.ts and audio.ts
but when I try to play it I only get picture with no sound.
There is also an AC3 file in the structure I get, and I can play the sound from it separate from the picture.

What can I do in order to bring the picture and sound back together?
Or -- what am I doing wrong here?

Please, I'm pulling hair here and tried to compress tens of times with same results.

Customer is getting impatient....

Please HELP.

David.

This is normal. M2V is picture only and AC3 is sound only. If you are making a DVD this is how you'll need them to be. In DVD Studio Pro when you drop an M2V video file into the project area it will automatically merge the same-name AC3 file with it as its primary audio track. You can also add additional identical-length AC3s to that track (for different languages, commentaries and whatnot).

Thanks Joe,

The thing is that I do not intend to burn any DVD with it.
I need to send the files to the customer via a drop box of some sort, so that he will be able to do with it whatever.
I think he is going to put it on a web site (an internet TV channel of sorts).

So, according to this, is the file structure I ended up with OK??
If I send him all the files, including the AC3, will he be able to do with it whatever he wants?
Or do I need to somehow come up with a different file structure for a web site purpose?

Thanks,

David.

David,

If you are prepping this for the web, then in my opinion, MPEG 2 and AC3 (SD DVD) is the wrong format. I would use H.265, most video on the web is H.264. You can export as H.264 right from inside FCP.

My 2 cents.

--ken

Thanks Ken,

I wish it was that easy.

The customer insists that it will be MPEG-2 and even gave specs
as to how he wants it (bit rate, etc.).

I must have it as MPEG-2.

So, is there anything wrong with the way I got it for the stated purpose?

David.

Thanks David,

I'm going to try another run and see what I get.

Will report my results.

David.