• Apple Motion

  Building the perfect DVD

  Posted by Dave Montague on January 30, 2009 at 1:53 am

  Ok, I am in Motion and I want to create the perfect DVD. I have Studio Pro 5 so I am ready to go. Please share with me what are the optimal setting for a good quality DVD:

  1-What resolution should I use to compose in Motion? The video was shot in HD. I want this to play on everyone’s DVD home player if possible but I do want it is HD.

  2-What compressor Setting should I output these videos in?

  Keep in mind I want a great quality DVD. I don’t want to spend hours compressing at the highest resolution if I don’t have to.

  Andy Neil replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andy Neil

  January 30, 2009 at 11:00 pm

  Ok, I’m going to go ahead and assume you’re talking about making an SD DVD as opposed to an HD-DVD or Blu-ray.

  Given the fact that your final DVD will be 720×480 in size, your Motion graphics need not be any bigger than that. However, this doesn’t mean that you should export your Motion project using a lossy codec like DV. Instead use the highest quality codec you can like Uncompressed 8 or 10bit.

  DV codec is notoriously bad at handling gfx so stay away from it if you can.

  Export a QT movie and then let Compressor do the MPEG compression. There are presets available for DVDs based on length of project.

  Andy

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