Need help! Dvd studio pro issues!!

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da//media

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hey everyone,

I have shot a 45min action sports film with the sony PWM-EX1 footage and edited everything in FCP as a 720P HD project.

I want to export this project to DVD for duplication and neeed HEELLLPPP!!

should i just take the 720p project straight into DVD studio pro?
should i put the 720P project into a Standard Definition timeline and downsize it and then send to studio pro???
what would be the way to get the best quality and fit it onto a regular dvd or DL dvd...

and also what would be settings and setup inside studio pro to make this look great??

hope to hear from all you!

thanks

Matt
DA//
 
Matt,

DVDSP does a decent job of encoding and is the easiest, but it does not produce as great results as compressor. You can simply export a quicktime and drag it into DVDSP and allow it to encode the material all-in-one.

I have found the best results with the following workflow:

- Export reference quicktime movie with current settings and DVDSP markers if you added them.
- Drop quicktime into compressor, change settings to DVD best quality 90min (or longer if needed).
- Drag .m2v and .ac3 file into the menu window of DVDSP, hold until popup menu appears and drop on create track & make connections.
- Advance Burn from the file menu and create a disc image on your HDD.
- Once tested in DVD player, burn using disc utility.


Jason
 
BTW, can't answer the DL Disc question without knowing how long the material is. DVDSP supports DL discs but I believe only by outputting to DLT tape.


J
 
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