exporting HD to DVD fast (er)

[Walter Biscardi]

[Pamela] “Can anyone recommend a nice intermediate setting to export my HD short so I can burn a DVD at the end of the day for my producer?”

Just export it from your Timeline using Current Settings (yes, leave it in HD) then use Compressor to create a 16:9 widescreen MPEG-2. It will create an SD MPEG-2 for you there instead of in FCP.

The quickest way to do this is to purchase a DVD Recorder and just play the timeline out in realtime via something like a Kona 3 card. Thats’ what we do here for client reviews.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

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[Bbalser]

I use Compressor directly out from FCP, choose a DVD/MPEG-2 preset, then in the Video drop down, chose “SD (Automatic)”, and I get great looking images with DVCPRO-HD.

I also get good results with droping my HD Sequence into an SD Sequence, rendering and exporting as a QT mov.

[Stuart Ferreyra]

Just like Walter, we also use real time burners with nthe kona cards.
Pioneer (in my opinion) has the best quality RT encoders.

This is the one we use:

Pioneer DVR-640H-SE
PAL & NTSC

Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
https://www.timecodemultimedia.com