• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Poor DVD quality

  Posted by Kev’s Pics on October 29, 2007 at 11:51 pm

  Hi,

  I am using Final cut studio and i have just finished editing a wedding, i exported to compressor and then produced my DVD but am very dissappointed with the quality.
  I used the Sony Z1e in HD mode and edited in HD, then in compressor down converted to SD.
  The picture is a little fuzzy and has jagged edges, should i have deinterlaced?
  or is there another issue here i am not aware of.
  Any help is appreciated……………..please!!

  Cheers

  Kev

  Bret Williams replied 18 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  October 30, 2007 at 1:36 am

  [Kev’s pics] “I used the Sony Z1e in HD mode and edited in HD, then in compressor down converted to SD.
  The picture is a little fuzzy and has jagged edges, should i have deinterlaced?”

  You should have created a High Quality 16:9 DVD. We do this all the time from DVCPro HD timelines and the discs come out very clean. Sometimes we bump up the compression.

  also, we never send the timeline to Compressor. We export a QT and bring that into Compressor.

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  Bret Williams

  October 30, 2007 at 4:46 am

  The only plus I’ve ever heard of for exporting to compressor directly is that there is some dialog going on automatically between FCP and Compressor whereas on a cut or a transitioin, etc. the compression is adjusted appropriately. But never seen any evidence of it. Sure isn’t worth the extra render time. Exporting directly ties up FCP and seems to actually take about 5 times as long to process.

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