Exporting HD Problems…

[Shane Ross]

Try using DVD Studio Pro instead. I have no experience with iDVD…but it is doing something wrong. 

#42 – Quick and dirty way to author a DVD

Shane’s Stock Answer #42 – David Roth Weiss’ Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:

The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:

1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.

2. Open DVDSP, select the “graphical” tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.

3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.

4. Now, select the green one, right click on it amd select the top option “first play”.

5. Now drag your QT from the broswer and drop it on top of the green monitor.

6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the “general tab” in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select “16:9 pan-scan.”

7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.

THATS ALL!!!

NOW…if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose “16:9 LETTERBOX” instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.

Shane

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[Angela Zumbrum]

Thank you for your help. However, even after trying this. my video is still a small box in the middle of the screen? The only option that I can think of is to actually resize each clip in the canvas of FCP. This can not be right! Maybe I am still missing a step in exporting? Any more help would be much appreciated.

[Angela Zumbrum]

I am still stuck. The video is still a very tiny box after exporting. In fact, the video is less than half the correct size when viewing it in the canvas of FCP. However, I have 3 different sequences within this project. 2 sequences are half size, and one sequence looks perfect. I tired to match the correct settings to the other sequences, and it still left them very small. Any advice?? I mean I am almost ready to resize each slip to fill the screen and I KNOW that can’t be correct. AHHHH!

Thank you so much.

[Shane Ross]

I don’t know what to say. It seems that you have footage that is differently sized than your sequence. Like it isn’t HD…smaller like DV? 720×480?

Shane

GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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[Angela Zumbrum]

I have exported my sequence and my video (even that that is not in slow motion) is jusmping and skipping frames when viewed in DVDSP…What have I done wrong?

Sequence Settings:

1920×1080 HDTV 10801 (16:9)
Pixel Aspect Ration: Square
Field Dominance – None (with no option to change)
Compressor: Apple ProRes 422

This is what FCP automatically did to my sequence when I dropped the footage into it.

I am simply exporting QT movie, self contained using current settings.

Any ideas why it is jumping when I view it? Do you think this could be just my computer dragging, and that when I burn it and view on TV it will look better?

Thanks!