• Avid Media Composer

  help getting timeline to dvd

  Posted by Alfredo Lopez on January 12, 2008 at 6:47 am

  I’ve looked around this forum and other Avid forums and haven’t been able to figure out how to get my finished timeline to a DVD.

  The first thing I tried was exporting it as HDV. This worked but gave me a 21GB file. Is there anything that could be done with that file to have it burned to an SD-DVD? I’ve read about sending it to Sorenson Squeeze at that point – but I don’t have that in my start menu on my PC – I only see Sorenson as a compression option when exporting…

  I also tried exporting it as a Quicktime Ref – but an error came up saying it was too long of a sequence.

  I then tried exporting it as a Quicktime Movie – I have the export settings still at HD levels as far as size and have tried a couple different compressors but I end up getting an error after hours of exporting that says “the file exceeds a 2GB limit.”

  I do have the academic software – does that mean I don’t have Sorenson Squeeze. I just want to get my HDV images to DVD and can’t really find the best route to do so.

  Any help would be much appreciated.

  John Mcclary replied 17 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jon Zanone

  January 12, 2008 at 3:20 pm

  I would export it as quicktime same as source out of the Avid.

  Once it is a quicktime, you’d then encode it using a compression software (procoder and sorenson are the best for my money). You’ll also need some kind of DVD authoring package (Sonic bundles with some versions of Avid). Unless you have Avid Studio toolkit, you probably won’t be able to go directly to DVD from the timeline.

  Jon

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  Grinner Hester

  January 15, 2008 at 3:26 pm

  I use reference files but learned the hard way that you have to make video and uadio mixdowns of your entire sequence first. Not always possible (seldom as a matter of fact) with an hour-long uncompressed show.
  Unless you mixdown and export reference files, a same as source QT is your best bet.
  It’s times like this I wish I were on a higher end system… like premiere
  lol

  
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  John Mcclary

  October 16, 2008 at 2:39 pm

  I just exported “Same as Source ” and one QT was corrupt, one was green the bottom half, and one crashed Quicktime Pro. “Same as Source” is not the answer with HD footage.

  John McClary

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