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skankib

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Whats the best way to export footage from fcp, then to use to burn to dvd?
I've tried standard setting as a quicktime movie aswell as uncompressed where the file is obviously huge but great quality, but with the larger uncompresed projects when played through QT they tend to stutter.

Anyone got any helpful hints on maximising quality when burning dvds?

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What are you using to burn the DVD?
In FCP you can export using Compressor and load into DVD Studio for cleanest looking image.
A DVD will be compressed in MPEG-2 format so even if you save it with no compression it will still go through a compression stage. Alost note that uncompressed clips are designed to retain quality going from program to program, your computer is unlikely to be able to playback a long uncompressed quicktime smoothly. The action is smooth but the computer can't load the images and display them at full speed. It will like fine once converted and burned to DVD.
 
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At present I'm using either toast or idvd. I've just got dvd studio pro3 but that might take a little while to figure out.

Regarding compressor, to be honest I havnt ever used it, i generally export straight from fcp. Any hints on how to use it? Does one export the original fcp doci or do u export the file uncompressed and then take it in to compressor?

Thanks for the tip about uncompressed clips...been wondering about that.

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From FCP -> File -> Export -> Using Compressor
If you're going to DVD Studio pro set it to 60minutes, highest quality
 
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Make sure you do the mpeg conversion in FCP or compressor.  You can drap other types of clips eg. quicktime, but idvd will convert it to mpeg, and do a horrible job of it.
 
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I beieve you can even bring clips not compressed via compressor straight into DVD Studio Pro 3. That means .mov, mp4, sorenson, anything quicktime can read... and when you go to build the DVD project, compression (MPEG-2) will be applied. Also meaning you can even bi-pass FCP or FCP Express and in a way use DVDSP3 to edit your clips. Not really edit edit but just bring it in drop it in the time line and have them burned to dvd lickety split - well not that quick but pretty quick. I believe DVDSP will use Compressors engine to do the compression.
 
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Compressor and DVDSP have the same encoder. However, Compressor offers access to more options for the encoding. It also has the benefit of getting the transitions, effects and titles sent directly to it without rendering into DV first. Some people, including myself, have encountered the problem with out of sync audio from Compressor, but there's a simple work around.

Here's an excellent article on Ken Stone's site that covers this topic very well.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_warmouth.html

I personally use Compressor for encoding my video. I export the audio separately as AIF first, then encode it into AC3 using A.Pack. This gives me the quality opions for video, and a small but good quality audio compression in AC3. Plus it works around the out of sync audio problem.

DVDSP might look daunting at first, but it's really quite intuitive. Fear not, have a play with it, experiment a bit. You'll never go back to iDVD once you get to know DVDSP.

It took me some experimenting, and a few scrapped DVDs, before I found my work flow. But once you find a way that works well for you, it's pretty smooth sailing. Good luck.
 
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[quote author=Wing link=board=FCP;num=1107098735;start=0#6 date=01/31/05 at 00:08:39]Compressor and DVDSP have the same encoder. However, Compressor offers access to more options for the encoding. It also has the benefit of getting the transitions, effects and titles sent directly to it without rendering into DV first. Some people, including myself, have encountered the problem with out of sync audio from Compressor, but there's a simple work around.

Here's an excellent article on Ken Stone's site that covers this topic very well.

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_warmouth.html

I personally use Compressor for encoding my video. I export the audio separately as AIF first, then encode it into AC3 using A.Pack. This gives me the quality opions for video, and a small but good quality audio compression in AC3. Plus it works around the out of sync audio problem.

DVDSP might look daunting at first, but it's really quite intuitive. Fear not, have a play with it, experiment a bit. You'll never go back to iDVD once you get to know DVDSP.

It took me some experimenting, and a few scrapped DVDs, before I found my work flow. But once you find a way that works well for you, it's pretty smooth sailing. Good luck.[/quote]

How hard is it to make templates on DVDPro3? and Can you transfer the templates from iDVD? I actually like lots of the templates in iDVD 4 and iDVD 5, so if I can still use them in DVDPro3 and customize them I'll very happy...

When you use compressor to compress your movie after editing on FCPHD, and bring them to iDVD5, does iDVD compress the file again?

Thanks for all your help.
 
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