• Apple Final Cut Pro

  High Quality DVD export- How?!

  Posted by Darrell Josiah on March 7, 2012 at 3:52 am

  I have been working on a documentary for months and now comes the time to export to DVD. I am using FCPx on a macbook pro.

  I am trying to export the 1 hour and 11 minute movie to dvd. I can burn to dvd directly from FCP but it doesn’t turn out in HD so I have been choosing to export as an H.264 file which exports at about 6.55GB and burning from there. The trouble is I had to use dual layer discs and it created a data DVD (not playable in dvd player). Then I tried burning in iDVD on a single layer and it seemed to compress the file to a point where the picture seemed a little off. For some reason, in iDVD the project fit on a single layer.

  Is there a better way to burn a high quality disc? I need to create one soon as my master for duplication.

  What am I missing?

  Christian Roth replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Christian Roth

  March 7, 2012 at 10:51 am

  DVD Video, which can be used by Players, is always SD only (in fact with mpeg2 compression).
  Optical disks with HD content would be Blu-Ray.
  regards, Chris

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