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  FCP > Compressor workflow method question for titles

  Posted by Timothy Anderson on July 15, 2010 at 12:34 pm

  Hi there –

  I am delivering a final DVD of a show I cut in FCP. TRT is approx. 89 minutes and is 1280×1080 DVCproHD 24p native format/sequence. I am using Compressor and DVDSP to compress and create DVD.

  Question:

  The show has an opening title sequence that is VERY basic (no animation, movements, etc…) that was created in Illustrator at the proper film doc. setting, then brought through Motion to align placement and create .mov files for each title card at the same sequence HD settings/codec. The .mov title files are then placed directly into the source HD sequence of the film with no problems. I am having a problem with these titles on the final SD DVD when I send sequence directly to Compressor and import into DVDSP from FCP, however – they appear terrible. However, a quick QT export test of these files show the uncompressed QT will yield the titles appropriately (no pixelating, crisp as they exist in Illustrator etc..).

  My question is should I export a QT reference self-contained master then bring that into Compressor hoping the opening titles quality will be retained and not jagged, blocky, etc..? Or, ultimately is there no way to make these titles appear clean and crisp as they should when going to an SD DVD using Compressor?

  I usually always direct send to Compressor because I believe the frame by frame hand off straight from FCP is of higher ultimate quality when Compressor encodes to MPEG-2 than bringing in an exported QT. Am I correct to think this?

  Thank You for any answers/advice.

  Tim

  Timothy Anderson replied 15 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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