DVD quality from FCP

[Tom Wolsky]

720p has no interlacing. Why did you deinterlace it? iDVD always interlaces DVD material for standard definition 720×480 output.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[John Pale]

[Atari Norris] “I made a quicktime movie from FCP, and the footage is 720p. I put a deinterlacer on all the footage and made a self contained quicktime movie, and when I play the movie it looks beautiful.”

Why in the world would you put a deinterlacer on progressive footage? It is not interlaced to begin with.

I’m not sure if iDVD knows to handle progressive footage. It’s probably converting it to 480i when it does the MPEG encode.

[David Roth weiss]

[Atari Norris] “I made a quicktime movie from FCP, and the footage is 720p. But when I make a DVD of it in iDVD, all the edges look pixelated and straight lines become jagged lines; smooth edges become ragged. How can I fix this? Help?!?”

Its hard to understand why you would bother to shoot 720p if you’re going to encode your DVD using iDVD. You might at well shoot on VHS.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Tom Wolsky]

I’m not entirely sure DVDSP knows how to do it either.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[John Pale]

[Tom Wolsky] “I’m not entirely sure DVDSP knows how to do it either.”

You can make 24p SD DVD’s with DVD Studio Pro.

[Coulter Mitchell]

Thanks for responding. So you’re suggestion then is to not deinterlace it? Is there is no way to print out a 720p from iDVD? The only reason I put a deinteralacer on it was because it looked pixelated and low-quality, and I was just experimenting to make it look better. If there isn’t a way to print it out from iDVD, what kind of software do you recommend that is either cheap or free? Thanks!

[David Roth weiss]

If you have the Final Cut Studio then you have Compressor and DVDSP.

BTW, you really should update your profile with info about what you’ve got so that people can better help you.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY

[Tom Wolsky]

Indeed. Just it’s converting of interlacing material to deinterlaced I’m not so happy with. Perhaps I haven’t found the magic settings to this well.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Indeed. Just it’s converting of interlacing material to deinterlaced I’m not so happy with. Perhaps I haven’t found the magic settings to this well.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

You’re talking about outputting a high definition DVD. There is no cheap software or hardware to do this. iDVD only does interlaced standard definition. Depending on the length of your material you can get pretty good quality with it, especially in the current version. Are you looking at it on a set-top box or a computer? The computer will show interlacing.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”