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Quicktime Movies
If I want to send out a D.V.D. From FCP using ID.V.D. what is the output movie that would give me the beat results?
Is compressor worth the extra time reqired or is a regular quicktime movie ok for most clients?
Thanks!!!
Patrick Morrow -
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Shane’s Stock Answer #3:
To export your DV project so there is no loss in quality, simply go to the File Menu and select EXPORT>QUICKTIME MOVIE. Not Quicktime Conversion, fot this will compress the footage. Make sure the settings match your timeline settings, make it self contained and you are set.
If you then want a DVD, then simply import into iDVD and burn. It will compress the file into MPEG-2 for you.
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Anyone else feel free to correct me if this is innacurate but if you want your clients to be able to play your authored DVD in a consumer player you’ll have to make an mpeg 2 movie before you burn it on to your DVD. This means running your QT movie through Compressor ot iDVD. You can, of course, burn an uncompressed QT movie to a DVD but only for archiving purposes, as the transfer/bit rates are to high to play the unaltered QT movie from the disc, even in your computer.
The best codec you should use to export your QT movie from the FCP timline should be the same as your raw footage was: eg NTSC video 48khz will be the same all the way through the editing process. If your footage is PAL video 48khz, then export a QT movie from FCP using the same codec.
Compressor will do a better job than iDVD because (among other things) you can use the exact mpeg2 bit rate you need for the best results.
Hope this helps.
– Don
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When you export the QT movie, self contained and importing into iDVD, it isn’t burning THAT EXACT file to DVD, but rather converting it to mpeg-2. This is how I do all my disks and have not encountered one problem.
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Just to add to what Shane wrote, iDVD will NOT accept an MPEG-2 file. It only accepts DV and HDV video material for compression to the DVD format. Set at best quality, iDVD in recent versions has been using exactly the same preset modules as Compressor to access QuickTime.
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Ok here’s a question: How can I streamline/improve the following?: I exported a quicktime movie, self contained, from a time line (36 mins total) . The resulting QT was over 8 gig, too big for a dvd, so I used compressor to make mpeg 1 version, thinking it would be faster than making mpeg 2: it was ok as a reference , but the sound didnt carry over, so before I burned the mpeg1 to dvd I compressed it separately & tried to link them, no joy. FYI it took 1 1/2 hrs to compress the 36 min / 8 gig QT movie down to mpeg 1.
fcp 4.5/ g4 single processor
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