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Final Cut Pro 7 to DVD Woes
I have AVCHD 1080P/30 footage from my Canon Prosumer camcorder. It was ingested as ProRes LT. I exported to Compressor with high quality 90 minute DVD settings. I prepared a DVD in DVD Studio Pro and burned it accordingly. The DVD looks horrible on my TV. It is very soft and fuzzy. Sequence settings set to high quality, render settings set to best, but still the video is almost comical. This is for a performance at church, and I want to make sure I am doing everything that I can to provide the best picture possible. Can anyone provide some things to look at? I believe it would have looked better if I had recorded in SD. However, it is too late for that now. Any advice would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Robbie Roof
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You state u encoded @ 90min. best.
How long is your program?Chris Tompkins
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Chris makes a VERY good point about program length. Don’t over-crush it.
Other thoughts:
Did you already try going directly from FCP? Just render out a QT at current settings and then pull it into DVDSP and let it process the footage? I would try that too.If that doesn’t help… remember that ProResLT is technically an ENG format, which produces lower quality files. Do you have a good enough rig to recapture at either source or ProRes422?
If you do:
1) you could recapture at the new quality (MAKE SURE that you name the files EXACTLY the same as the others)
2) then reconnect all the media in your project to the new files, then re-output. Much better quality to start with.Good Luck!
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Did you encode it as Progressive? Did you change the GOP structure any? Did you change ANYTHING with the preset? Did you turn on Frame Control?
[Robbie Roof] “Sequence settings set to high quality, render settings set to best, but still the video is almost comical.” What are you talking about here, FCP? what would that have to do with a m2v encode?
How can we tell you if you did everything right if you just give general info on what you did?
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The downconverter in FCP7 is a joke, compressor is also not good enough. The only decent scaling available in the FCP Suite is MOTION. But MPEG Streamclip does a better job on highly detailed material and it’s faster, and free.
MPEG STREAMCLIP WORKFLOW:
Export a HD movie (preferably PRORES 422 (not LT)
open in MPEG Streamclip.
Export to Quicktime using PRORES 422,
but make it NTSC size 720×480,
lower field dominance,
Check better downscaling
set Zoom size to 102.5 (otherwise you’ll get black bars on the side.
Leave X/Y on 1 to get 16:9 aspect ratio in SD (make sure you check 16×9 flag in DVD STUDIO)
Change X/Y to 1.33 if you want Letterboxed 4:3 SD.
Bring into Compressor and then compress it to MPEG2—————–
David Chai
Writer . Director
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Had you set the “Frame Control ON” and “Best” for the downscaling in Compressor?
Without the Frame Control ON, Compressor works only in 8b.
rafael
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