• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Master tape to SD DVD with FCP

  Posted by Scott Phillips on July 30, 2013 at 3:23 pm

  Hi all–I’m a novice to intermediate editor (where I work we do very little video production). So, I come here seeking some technical expertise.

  We’ve reached out to a company that produced a DVD and they’ve agreed to let us re-purpose their movie and produce a DVD with our edits. We received a master HDCAM tape with the final movie on it (1080i, 60fps). We then had it encoded to ProRes so that I may re-cut it in FCPX.

  When I save out the edited movie from FCPX it looks great as a ProRes movie. But when I save the MPEG-2 and create the DVD from DVDSP, the type/graphics don’t seem as sharp as they do on the original DVD.

  Did the original company simply have a better workflow for creating the SD DVD, or is there something I can do from an encode standpoint to make the graphics look better?

  I also have a question about Closed Captioning, but I’ll save that for another post.

  thanks.

  Scott Phillips replied 13 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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