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HDV Edit to SD DVD
Pieced together a three hour play I shot in HDV, and edited in HDV in FCP. I split into two parts for export for DVD burn.
What is the best method for making the best SD file to import as asset into DVD Studio Pro? I tried changing the setting on the QT export. Looks awful. When I attempted to change into MPEG 2 in Compressor, est. time was 29 hours!
Been working with AVID the past several months – I am very rusty.
Thanks in advance for any adviceMike
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this comes up often, and a search will reveal MUCH more information than this…
easiest way is to export a quicktime, then let DVDSP do the conversion, to get slightly better quality, let Compressor chunk away, and the 29 hours, doesn’t surprise me too much. (dont go through fcp, but export a quicktime, then take that into compressor and that will get you a good ratio on fastest possible/good quality.
That is just an estimate, and shouldn’t take quite that long, but you probably will have a lot of time to get all that yardwork done that you’ve been neglecting while editing the play.search for the exact phrase in your subject line, and you may get some tips for better quality
Todd Reid
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Thanks.
That was my thinking – but DVDSP will not import the QT ref file – saying “Incompatible format/file”.Also – working on an iMAC -ugh!
I did do the search as well – but nothing seemed to address this particular situation.
Thanks again.
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what i find the best route is once finished edit:
1: change easy settings to dvcpro and anamorphic settings
2: make new seq. and place in timeline
3: drop edit seq into new seq
4: when box comes up and ask if you want to change if you want to change to match to edit click to say no
5: now render and after send to comressorlife is not perfect but that is probable me
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Thanks Dave.
I will attempt this process when I get back there.
My concern is the length of the seq. and render time.
Any thoughts?
And I am able to skip the Compressor step and import as asset in DVD SP with some loss of quality, correct? -
[dave carnegie] “what i find the best route is once finished edit:
1: change easy settings to dvcpro and anamorphic settings “Dave & Michael:
Sorry to come to the party late, but now I’m here.
Dave, while your method may work, it’s far from ideal, as it has numerous extra and unnecessary steps, and a seriously bad scaling and compression step to SD, which is also unnecessary and a sure way to introduce unwanted compression artifacts.
Below is the proper workflow, which is much simpler and will not introduce an added compression step.
1. From your timeline go to Sequence>>Settings and change the compressor to Pro Res.
2. Re-render the timeline
3. Export using Make Quicktime Movie (using current settings)
4. Use one of the “Best presets” in Compressor to encode to MPEG-2 and AC3 audio. Make sure that 16×9 is selected in the Geometry tab, this will generate a flag that will insure that your DVD plays 16×9 on widescreen TVs and letterboxed on 4×3 TVs.
5. Use the M2V and AC3 files in DVDSP or any authoring app to make a SD DVD.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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I am going nuts trying to export a QT movie out of Final Cut 5.0. The majority of footage was shot at 1080i60 with some AVI files and stills from a digital camera mixed in. I was able to get it to export Quicktime movie using “current settings” Include “audio and video” (no markers) and I unchecked the “make movie self contained” button. The file it exported has the video and audio, but only works when I scrub it. It won’t play on it’s own. When I drop it in to iDVD 6 it only registers audio. I looked for your suggested “pro res” setting, but it wasn’t an option. Am I just using the wrong software or being a knuckle head. Thanks, Mike
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[mike Durand] “I am going nuts trying to export a QT movie out of Final Cut 5.0.”
First, FCP 5.0 had significant bugs that were soon patched, but of course the updates are no longer available now.
Second, Pro Res was not invented until the release of FCP 6, so you’d be hard pressed to find it in ver. 5.
Third, it sounds as if your timeline is not fully rendered. Make certain that “Full” is checked in the dropdown menu under Sequence>>Render All, then re-render the entire sequence.
Next, export Quicktime Movie at current settings and do check the box that says make self contained. If you don’t check that box, your file will no longer work if you make any changes or any renders in the timeline, and hard drive space is cheap now.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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