export to DVD

[Rafael Amador]

Hi James,
Use one of the “High quality” presets in compressor.
With only 28 minutes long movie you can push up the data rate.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[James Wright]

my compressor app is bust,

i get the dodgy message saying “unable to connect to background process” and have tried to fix and ive reinstalled but to no avail.

I do have MPEG Streamclip, is there a way to use that to do what your suggesting?

I was hoping that there might be a compressor setting in the export tab when you actually export from FCP.

Im using FCP 5.0.4 btw, which i forgot to mention.

[James Wright]

ive somehow got compressor to work again thanks to some online article “https://www.kashum.com/blog/1152611689”.

You mentioned upping the bit rates. for a 28 min long film to go on DVD, how far would you say i can push this realistically to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD disc…

thanks again

[Rafael Amador]

If you set some 7Mbps for Average bit-rate and 8.3 for Peak bit-rate you can still use PCM Audio.
If you use the AAC Audio (Dolby) you could even rise it a bit more.
Keep the total data rate no higher than 9.5 Mbps.
You may try too using Open/Short GOPs.
More “I” frames, more quality.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[James Wright]

Right,

I did as stated, and the footage looks great, took some time though, but im not surprised.

I highlighted the timeline and exported it to compressor, i set it to:

Mpeg 2.
Pal.
16:9
Field Dominance: Bottom First
Mode: One Pass VBR Best
average Bit rate at 8.2 with a maximum to 9.7
GOP structure set to IBBP
and size set to 12

I then added an audio format of ACC 128 KBPS for the audio.

These Exported to my desktop as the following files:

last copy-30 MIN FINAL EDIT!!!!!-tada2.m2v (what i assume is my video, but i cant play as i dont have the Mpeg2 plugin)

and

last copy-30 MIN FINAL EDIT!!!!!-AAC 128Kbps.mp4 (what i assume is my audio which i can listen to through quicktime.)

when i add the two files to my timeline for DVDSP, it looks fantastic and its a good size file, but it hasnt done all of my video, and gives me a the “media Offline” i usually would get from FCP, not for every video file, but a fair few of them, and also my audio despite being the same length, is now out of sync?

What happened? surely if im going straight from FCP and the timeline there is perfect it should output with everything as appropriate?

Help would be soo sooo fantastic, as im new to all this and trying to pick it up as i go along..

Thank you for reading this…

J

[Rafael Amador]

Hi James,
The data rate you set I think are too high. You may have problems with domestic players.

[James Wright] “Mode: One Pass VBR Best “
If you use “One Pass”, then use Constant Bit Rate.
A Variable Bit rate compression makes only sense for a “Two passes” compression.

Normally I do Two Passes.

[James Wright] “I then added an audio format of ACC 128 KBPS for the audio. “
Thats too low data rate for a decent audio.

I would recommend you export a Self Contained movie and import to Compressor. Then make a Double Pass MPEG-2.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com