exporting to dvd

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Johny

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Hello friends. I filmed a 2+ hour play in 720-30pn and am trying to make a dvd with fcp studio 2. I tried compressor with the preset for "dvd best quality for 150 minutes". I set it to save on the desktop. What it saved was a file with the compressor icon. I right clicked and set the file to open with quicktime player. after a minute it did but without sound. What did I mess up? by the way, would this have been the best way to get the highest quality dvd out of this amount of footage?
As usual, Thanks guys
 
In Compressor you have to set 3 things:

1. drag and drop the video selection (sounds like you did)

2. drag and drop the audio selection (sounds like you did not)

3. drag and drop a destination setting to each of the above line items (that is two separate drag and drops, one to each of the video and audio lines)

If you did select an audio, then do a Spotlight and look for the actual destination
 
Scrappy, if I'm following you correctly you have made an m2v file and either a PCM or AC3 audio file. These two files (video and audio) aren't tied together yet because they are seperate files until you author them in DVD Studio Pro or some other DVD authoring program. You opened the video file which takes QT a couple of seconds to open to play but no audio because there not joined together yet.

Once you author them they will be on the same track in your DVD authoring program and be rendered out as one joined together file. You should have a audio file somewhere on your desktop. I always put the file destination into a folder wether on the desktop or someplace else. That way the video and audio are always together in the same place, this makes life a lot easier. Make sure you set the destination for both video and audio to the same folder.

Once authored and burned out or prviewed in DVDSP you will see and hear the audio together.

Hope this helps.
 
Hello again

Hello again

Thanks for your quick replies guys. Just to clarify, I was in fcp and chose export using compressor. When compressor opened, I went into the dvd presets folder and dragged the "best quality for 150 minutes" preset into the sequence box, I then set the destination to desktop, hit submit and named it.
Thanks again
 
When i forget to set the destination, I still easily find the file by typing the original filename into the search bar. All files containing the name come up immediately.
Look for the M2v and the AC3 files with that name, drop them into DVSP and go.
 
Scrappy said:
Thanks for your quick replies guys. Just to clarify, I was in fcp and chose export using compressor. When compressor opened, I went into the dvd presets folder and dragged the "best quality for 150 minutes" preset into the sequence box, I then set the destination to desktop, hit submit and named it.
Thanks again
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don't export out of final cut via compressor... you need to just export quicktime movie and then drop that in to compressor.... you will get your best results that way
 
thanks

thanks

Jason I should export to a quicktime movie first, with the current settings? Then go to compressor with one of their dvd presets? then the authoring software? Thats the way to go for the best quality?
The movie is a little less than 2 and a half hours. It makes sense to use the preset for best quality at 150 minutes, then adjust the bit rate till it gets as close to the 4.7 gb you can store on a DVD, Yes?

Thanks again for your advice
 
Jason is right. Don't export through compressor out of FCP. There have been many reported problems doing it this way. There are lots of differnet ways to get footage onto a DVD, but this is the method I have the most success with:

Export a Quicktime REFERENCE movie (small than if you check the self contained movie box) using current settings.

I suggest that you just use the 150 minute preset and do not adjust the bitrate. If you decide to adjust it, be very careful not to go too high 7.2-7.6 is as high as you would ever want to go even if you had a 2 minute program. Also, you need room for more than just the video - room for the audio, room for the DVD menus, room for the DVD file root system...Don't push it past 3.8 GBs or so.

Then in DVDSP make a new project, and the easiest way is to drag both files into that project (do not release the mouse until the create new track dialog box opens). Create your menus and choose file advanced burn, build and format. Create a .dmg on your desktop and burn that with Disk Utility or Toast...etc.


J
 
I've actually been able to push the space amount to just under 4.3 gig for a DVD and that includes video and audio and muxing which leaves just enough room for writing the ins and outs of the disk. Muxing includes all menu items which can take up more space depending on how many menus you have. Ten layers of menus will take up a lot more space than one.

I've out put tons of projects and wether I go out quicktime first or right out of FCP I can't see any difference in quality. If you guys are seeing a difference in quality what percentage is it or what seems to be changed?
 
Going directly out of FCP to Compressor keeps all of the timeline elements in their native codecs so you don't have any recompression. I think it's broken in Leopard though, at least as far as using Qmaster multi-processing. Don't quote me on that as I'm researching this very thing now.
 
okay, I exported the file to a quicktime movie with original settings, I then closed fcp and opened compressor and used the 150 best quality preset. I waited 18 hours for it to finish and the file I wound up with had no sound. I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but I do know how to follow directions. Help. As always thanks for all your help.
 
Sounds like you may have only muxed the Video track...Did you drag both the .mv2 video track and the .aiff or dolby audio track into DVDSP?
 
Scrappy,

You have only done the video, you also need to drag up a preset for the audio.

" the 150 best quality preset" this is video preset only

Bob
 
my bad

my bad

Thanks guys. I didn't realize that when you export as a quicktime movie it separates the video and audio, like it does in compressor. You guys are great, thanks a lot
 
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