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exporting video to dvd studio pro
hi,
im having a few problems and i was wondering if anyone could help me out…i made a 30 min long skate video and i exported it out of fcp as a quicktime movie/current settings/self contained movie..and i imported it into dvd studio pro as a asset, made my menus, built and formatted it and burnt it..now when i watched it at home all the fade ins, fade outs in the video are kinda pixelated..i was wondering where along the line this happened or what i could do? was it because i exported it as current settings? do i need to do something esle?
also the video looks kinda white on tv..? do i need to use a compressor?if anyone could help i would greatly appreciate it.
thanks so much
frankalso if anyone of you know how important it is to have music permissions?
do i need to list the bands/labels in the credits?
there might be 1000 copies of this made for skateboarders
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If you’re going to make DVDs, you need to use a compressor to create the MPEG-2 files, which are required by the DVD spec. Export the way you did (or don’t use self-contained), then open Compressor and try the preset that’s closest to what you want. Bring that video and audio file into DVD SP.
Music is copyrighted. It’s illegal to use it without permission (which for well known bands usually requires lots of money). Simply listing the bands and labels is not enough. Google “music copyright”
and you’ll find a wealth of info.
Ed -
You should be thinking about all this first:
> also if anyone of you know how important it is to have music permissions?
Very, very important.
> do i need to list the bands/labels in the credits?
Yes, but that would be the least important part.
> there might be 1000 copies of this made for skateboarders
“They” are spending considerable time and money right now looking for people just like you.
Now that you’re working on that, to the DVDs.
I use Compressor to prep for DVDSP so I don’t know exactly what the compression choices are within DVDSP. But the most important thing you can do for quality is to use CBR rather than VBR. VBR shaves corners to fit more material on a disc. With only 30 minutes you don’t have to do that. Use CBR.
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Forget about importing the assets directky to DVDSTP, you’ve got very little contol of the process. Do it with Compressor and be aware of the field order. About the fade-in fade-outs are things that you better avoid when going to DVD.
Cheers,
rafael -
FCP lets you add compression markers where you want to. As long as you aren’t doing multi track dvds you can place I frames within the transitions. Scan the manual for more info on I-frames for more detail.
Better though would be to do some custom encodes within compressor. For a 30 min action movie you should be using short gop’s, you don’t need the compression advantages of long gop structures for a 30 min video. An ibp or ip gop structure would probably be your best option.
They make royalty free music for people like us. If we play by the rules everybody gets paid. I like getting paid. I think we all like getting paid.
sound ideas.
There is tons on the web.“everything is broken”
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Rennie,
Are the short GOP MPG2s well played by domestic DVD players?
Cheers,
rafael
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