best way to get long videos on DVD
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Shane Ross
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Don't do that. Export a QT reference movie (Export QT movie, uncheck MAKE SELF CONTAINED), then take that into Compressor, and use the DVD presets. 120 min, 150 min...
Going to H.264 then to MPEG-2 DVD format....horrid and time consuming. wrong wrong...
#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:
The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:
1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.
2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.
3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.
4. Now, select the green one, right click on it amd select the top option "first play".
5. Now drag your QT from the broswer and drop it on top of the green monitor.
6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the "general tab" in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select "16:9 pan-scan."
7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.
THATS ALL!!!
NOW...if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose "16:9 LETTERBOX" instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.
Going to H.264 then to MPEG-2 DVD format....horrid and time consuming. wrong wrong...
#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:
The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:
1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.
2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.
3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.
4. Now, select the green one, right click on it amd select the top option "first play".
5. Now drag your QT from the broswer and drop it on top of the green monitor.
6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the "general tab" in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select "16:9 pan-scan."
7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.
THATS ALL!!!
NOW...if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose "16:9 LETTERBOX" instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.
Anything beyond 2 hours won't work on iDVD no matter what you do.
What people tend to misunderstand is that the only factor to be considered initially for encoding a movie to SD DVD is the length of the video in total minutes.
120 minutes of uncompressed high definition has the same footprint of 120 minutes of NTSC DV.
That's why transcoding the original footage to h.264 is an unnecessary and counterproductive effort.
That being said, iDVD won't work for more than 120 minutes and at the length the encode will not look very good.
DVD SP will, and it won't look very good on a single layer DVD.
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For what possible reason would you use h.264 as the base video?
You would be heavily compressing twice without any possible reason.
Apple's support docs clearly state that the limitation for a single layer DVD is 120 minutes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Why would the h.264 codec permit you to place more?
You would be heavily compressing twice without any possible reason.
Apple's support docs clearly state that the limitation for a single layer DVD is 120 minutes:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Why would the h.264 codec permit you to place more?
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DVD Studio Pro.
The longer the length of the DVD, the poorer the quality due to the need for heavier compression.
However, DVD SP enables you to use AC3 audio rather than uncompressed aiff audio, which facilitates a higher bit rate for the video
The longer the length of the DVD, the poorer the quality due to the need for heavier compression.
However, DVD SP enables you to use AC3 audio rather than uncompressed aiff audio, which facilitates a higher bit rate for the video