• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Burning DVD’s from HDV 1080 60i codec Final Cut Quicktime Files

  Posted by Mark Ponsness on June 30, 2006 at 12:06 am

  Has anyone had any luck burning dvd’s from Final Cut with HDV 1080 60i Quicktime source files?

  Zak Mussig replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Zak Mussig

  June 30, 2006 at 1:40 am

  Mark,

  What you’re doing is actually a pretty painless process…
  I’m assuming you want your final version to be a regular old SD DVD, and you aren’t trying to master for HD-DVD or BluRay.

  I do this through FCP, but seeing as how you already have an FCP QT file, you may want to just straight to compressor.

  Import your HDV movie into FCP, and drop it into a sequence with SD settings (command-0 to change sequence settings)… I’ve used NTSC DV 720×480 aspect ratio, DV pixel aspect ratio, anamorphic, and set the compressor to whatever you want. I was told to use animation for the absolute highest quality, but do what feels good.
  If your video doesn’t scale properly open it in the viewer and change your scale to 50% and aspect ratio (under distort) to -12.5.

  Export this sequence with export > using compressor, and select whichever 16×9 preset you want, or make your own 16×9 setting.

  You may be able to take your HDV movie right into compressor, but I’m not sure about HD – SD conversion doing that… haven’t done it.

  Hope that helps you get started,
  Zak

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