Making a dvd?

Lake Films

Lake Films

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I want to take some test footage and take a look at it on a dvd. Any suggestions on a workflow. I'm using FCP and DVD studio pro. Thanks for the help!
 
If you're using FCP 7 just use the new Share feature to go right to DVD. It uses Compressor, but won't launch it so it doesn't tie up FCP and allows you to keep working. You won't need to even launch DVD SP - depending on what you're trying to do, of course.

And, BTW, there's a Share preset for YouTube that works just fine for Vimeo. This feature will even upload your clip to YouTube for you; all without leaving FCP.

Check it all out here: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_7_share_stone.html
 
So I sent the file to compressor, encoded it with the 'pro res' setting, burned the dvd and it won't play, heck, it won't even load in the player, but plays in my computer. what is wrong? There must be some little detail I'm missing...
 
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Export your movie using Export-->Quicktime movie. Reference movie is fine just know that it's not self contained. Quit FCP. Open Compressor. Drag the movie in. Go to DVD Best Quality 90 Minutes (the highest quality one, it's possible to increase the bit rate further but it might not play in all DVD players) drag both those audio and video settings onto the video and hit submit...quit compressor if you want and fire up batch monitor, it'll still be going. Drag those two new assets into DVD studio pro and add them to a new track, make a button, link it to the track, add an end jump to the track to go back to the menu when it's over. Burn that thing!

WOOO! I'm out of breath! I typed that faster than it took you read it.
 
Lake Films said:
I'm using FCP and DVD studio pro. Thanks for the help!
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Have you looked at the manual, or the help menu?
There are tutorials that came with the software that take through all the basic steps of each program in the suite - you should probably start there, they're incredibly helpful for giving you a handle on the basics.
 
Lake Films said:
Is it true that you can make a Blu-Ray DVD with toast 10, without a Blu-Ray burner?
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It's in the Blu-ray format, but of course not on a Blu-ray disc so the capacity is much smaller.

From the Toast 10 manual:

Making a High Definition DVD (also known as a AVCHD disc)
"High-Definition DVD is a unique type of video disc which allows you to
create author HD video to DVD, for playback in true high definition. This
gives you the ability to create HD video discs without owning a Blu-ray
Disc™ recorder. Although you are recording to standard DVD discs with
this project, you can only view the finished project on a Blu-ray Disc™
player such as the PlayStation® 3. This type of project is ideal for creating
video discs from your AVCHD camcorder.

A standard single-layer DVD can hold approximately 30 minutes of HD
video and a dual-layer DVD can hold approximately one hour of HD video.
While Toast will allow you to add more than these lengths of video, adding
additional video requires that video be compressed further and results in a
lower quality video. These discs offer full menu navigation and are created
in much the same way that DVD-Video or Blu-ray Video projects are with
the same options available."

"Note: HD video authoring functionality for DVD and Blu-ray
Disc™ requires the purchase of High-Def/Blu-ray Disc plug-in." - $20
 
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