exported video all jacked up URGENT

[Shane Ross]

[cadobee] ”
is it easy to reimport what you recorded on dvd back to the computer then add to dvd studio?”

Uhhh…why recapture the footage and go into DVD studio pro? You have your DVD. Ship that. I don’t understand why you’d do this. This BYPASSES the need for DVD Studio pro.

I guess the method I am talking about if to get review DVDs out. Are you trying to author a fully complete DVD, menus and all? If so, than this isn’t what you should be doing. Encoding is the way to go for that.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Liam Lawyer]

Another option is to just export the seq as a quicktime file (what ever you are working in) and then use THAT to do the encoding in compressor or whatever…

1- you dont tie up FCP
2- you can unload it to a box with faster abilities (if u have)
3- i have found that to be quicker than from within FCP

[Cade Muhlig]

[macfreek] “Another option is to just export the seq as a quicktime file (what ever you are working in) and then use THAT to do the encoding in compressor or whatever…”

yea that option isnt that bad, i tried it yesterday actually, but the movement was pretty bad.
thanks for the tip

[Todd Beabout]

I’m having the exact same problem today using QuickTime conversion. I’m cutting a short film and the director wanted a QuickTime of the rough-cut where it currently stands. No problem, pretty standard workflow for me (in SD anyways).

I’ve exported it several times, and each time I get the same problems, which are very similar to what cadobee described, with the addition of the sound being out of sync periodically. It seems to happen near or during a dissolve.

It’s not a big deal to me right now (the director is a friend of mine, and he can live with the glitches) but I wanted to throw it out there that this problem exists. I am going to try to keep working in HDV native, but I’m getting a bit worried that problems like this will persist throughout the process. If we had a better HDV deck I would have brought it in as DVCProHD, but alas, the only outputs on my deck are component RCA (and RCA audio as well).

The end-product for this project will be a SD DVD for festival screenings, and I will probably use my Kona LHe to downconvert in real-time for a DigiBeta dub. Should I think about converting the final product to DVCProHD 720P, then to DVD? I’m trying to figure out how adding another compression scheme to the mix could be beneficial, and I believe I read this advice somewhere in this post.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios