Burning my finished film to DVD studio pro

[Steve Eisen]

Dan

If you want to continue to in the video business, first you must learn is to do things the correct way. The first time you make a mistake, could be your last in the business.

Going on David and Kylee’s advice, please, please, please read the help manuals included in the entire Final Cut suite. The workflows are very easy to follow.

Just to educate you on what would have happened if you were to burn a DVD from an MP4.
Take a blank piece of paper. Crumple it up real good. Try to un-crumple that piece of paper. Paper doesn’t look to good does it?

If you were to use a SC movie from FCP and went to DVD.
Grap another sheet of paper. Fold the paper into as many squares as possible. Unfold the paper. How does the paper look? Not that many wrinkles as the crumpled paper.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Kylee Pena]

I’m stealing this analogy and will probably use it today.

[Jeremy Doyle]

[Steve Eisen] “Just to educate you on what would have happened if you were to burn a DVD from an MP4.
Take a blank piece of paper. Crumple it up real good. Try to un-crumple that piece of paper. Paper doesn’t look to good does it?”

That is a great analogy!

[Paul Jay]

Your source is 2k?
I wouldn just use the standard dvd compressor presets when you’re doing downscaling to standard def DVD like this.
Resize filter set to best will help a lot!!
Use those dvd presets and edit the frame controls.

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks for post. Could you be more specific.
I understand concept, but not the detail.
I dont use \’Compressor\’ but do use \’Mpeg Streamclip\’

If you could advise on which codec to export out to in fcp
from 2k that would rock. The original file as I\’m exporting
now is 164 gigs, which is ridiculous.
It\’s a graded movie I\’m recuttung, so is uncompressed, but the DVD is for approval only.

Thanks v much.
Dan

[Joey Burnham]

[Kylee Wall] “I’ve honestly never tried mp4 to mpg2”

Compressor will do it no problem. I’m not saying that it’s proper in any way, but I get .mp4’s from clients all the time that they want on dvd (just for viewing in a set-top player), and Compressor has no issues doing the conversion.

MPEGStreamclip I assume can do it as well.

Joey

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks for post Joey.
I have one last very basic question.
I just tried to do the transfer to mpeg 2 but I can’t find it in the pull down menu. I’ve got loads of others, pro res, avid ones etc. Am I being daft, or is called something else?

Thankyou.
Dan

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I think a simpler way, if you can’t go back and re export, would be to use iDVD. Its drag and drop. Just place your MP4 in iDVD, it will encode, make a menu, a button, everything.

Run iDVD, select 4:3 or 16:9, I think you should select 16:9 as your movie is 2048×1152.
Then name the DVD something other than ‘My Great DVD’, which is the default name.
Then decide where to save it.
Select a good looking theme.

In the Project menu, go to Project info and select NTSC or PAL as desired. Set encoding preference.

Then drag your mp4 into the main window. iDVD will make a button.

You can preview the DVD by hitting the Play button at the bottom.

When you’re satisfied, press the burn button, pop in a blank DVD and you’re done – after the DVD finishes burning.

Couldn’t be simpler.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Joey Burnham]

For MPEG Streamclip I’m not sure, never tried to do it that way. In Compressor there’s presets galore.
Joey

[Richard Likong]

i tried burning a DVD but I received a message that Formatting was not successful. Layer 0 exceeds the maximum layer size allowed. Please choose a suitable marker location that will support this condition.

Does layer 0 refer to my video quicktime file? Or is it the layers in the photoshop layed menu?

Rich

15 years as a personal manager in the music industry and entertainment photographer for artists publications. Presently, a music doc filmmaker, camera op, and writer/director…was a line producer on the Howlin Wolf film, “Smokestack Lightning.”