• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor: DVD best or Uncompressed 8-bit?

  Posted by Fletch on April 11, 2007 at 1:40 am

  I’m exporting my DVD NTSC anamorphic 16:9 uncompressed 8-bit to Compressor, so that I can burn it to DVD using DVD Studio Pro.

  Should I export it at DVD best 16:9, or uncompressed 8bit?

  Also, if I do choose UC8bit, should I choose 16:9 in the Geometry options under ‘constrain to display aspect’ or should I just deal with the aspect ratio in DVDSP?

  Thanks for your time?

  Mark

  Fletch replied 19 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Dan Blaim

  April 11, 2007 at 3:20 am

  In my experience DVD best 16:9 works very well. I’ve never used uncompressed before but wouldn’t that just mean that DVD studio pro would have to do the compressing upon building/formating?
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  Rafael Amador

  April 11, 2007 at 4:46 am

  Hi Mark,
  Your question is not very clear. You have done your edit in FC 8b Unc, so now you have to make a MPG2 for the DVD.
  You got three option to do it with Compressor:
  _ Export to Compressor from the FC time-line (what make FC re-render everything).
  – Export a Reference movie from FC (this need that the film has be previously rendered in FC).
  – Export a Self-contained movie from FC.
  Whichever you prefer to use, now Compressor is ready to convert your 8b Unc 16×9 film in a MPG2.
  Choose one of the DVD 16×9 presets and Compressor will make a nice MPG2 NTSC 16×9. You don’t have to worry about any parameter. Export the audio too as .aiff or .ac3.
  Then open DVDSTP. Set your projet as NTSC and import those two files. Drag the .mv2 and the audio to the time-line. Make sure that the track got set “Display mode” 16×9, in the inspector.
  That’s all.
  rafael
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  Fletch

  April 11, 2007 at 12:35 pm

  Thanks alot!

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