• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Hd to standard DVD authoring FCP to DVD studio pro

  Posted by Rayovac on April 3, 2007 at 5:57 pm

  Whats are the best settings, compression, size and ratio, animorphic or what ever for creating an SD dvd from HD source footage? the ones I’m getting don’t look so good. thanks……..

  Rayovac replied 19 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
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  Rayovac

  April 3, 2007 at 6:52 pm

  Thanks, so my codec for compression out of FCP doesn’t matter. just use the HD codec my project is in?
  that sounds easy I’ll try it right now. thanks
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  Dan Riley

  April 3, 2007 at 8:47 pm

  When exporting to Quicktime Movie, under settings it will say “current settings”.
  You leave it there, yes. And as was already said, DON’T check the box for
  making movie self contained.

  dr
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  Rayovac

  April 4, 2007 at 12:34 am

  Still having problems. creating a QT in the Apple HDV 1080i60 in FCP with not self contained selected and, toward the end of the “forever” process compressor says there is an error. I’m only working with a 6 minute file but things are really slow and then I get errors. help….
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  Rayovac

  April 4, 2007 at 7:59 pm

  Thanks Dave. I’m trying the nested sequence right now. it’s going well….. I tried re-digitizing the show from tape on my HD camera and the video levels are too hot and there’s ugly pixels around all the bright stuff so. is there such a thing as a firewire proc amp? hopefully this will work. Hey, I know….. I’ll buy an HD DVD………. ouch….
  thanks….
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  Jim Martin

  April 5, 2007 at 4:11 pm

  I export HDV out of FCP almost daily for DVD with no issues whatsoever, so something is not right here.
  I also prefer to export as self-contained, because then I have an HDV master file for future use when the format wars shake out, but that’s merely personal preference. By Reference should work equally as well

  Workflow:
  Render all
  Export HDV timeline as current settings self-contained
  Encode in Compressor.
  Import into DVDSP, flagging as 16 x 9.
  Works every time without fail
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  Rayovac

  April 5, 2007 at 6:14 pm

  Thanks, a couple of questions,
  the project I’m working on is 17 minutes using the apple HDV codec. I’m using a Mac dual G5 2.5 with stripped drives. It’s going to take about 5 hours to encode the video? is that righ?

  And when importing assets into DVDSP do you just use the standard 90 minute 16×9 preset? and when I look in the preview should the image be squashed horizontaly?

  thank ray
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  Rayovac

  April 5, 2007 at 6:14 pm

  Thanks, a couple of questions,
  the project I’m working on is 17 minutes using the apple HDV codec. I’m using a Mac dual G5 2.5 with stripped drives. It’s going to take about 5 hours to encode the video? is that righ?

  And when importing assets into DVDSP do you just use the standard 90 minute 16×9 preset? and when I look in the preview should the image be squashed horizontaly?

  thank ray
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  Jim Martin

  April 6, 2007 at 2:20 pm

  I doubt it will take 5 hours. Compressor often starts off with a high number but goes faster. This depends on what pre-processing you are doing, of course.

  yes, I’d use the 90 minute setting in compressor, and tweak the data rate and pre-processing tabs to taste. Where is it looking squished?

  Jim
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  Rayovac

  April 6, 2007 at 4:22 pm

  Ok, the squashing is in the Compressor/batch monitor preview window. The dvd came out fine though thanks, the best yet.
  Unfortunately, it took 6 hours for compressor to do it’s thing but DVDSP was finished in about 5 minutes burning the DVD.

  thanks.

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