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FCP to Compressor Question
I don’t know that I will have time to burn another DVD, but in case I do, is there anything I should do differently than just dragging the DVD:Best Quality as the option? I don’t have a blu ray burner so I assume it has to be at 480… I guess it will look good being shot at 1080 but is there anything in compressor that I can to up the quality or is DVD Best Quality at 720-x480 going to be the best route?
Also, the movie that I am compressing is about a 25 minute short film. Should I use DVD best quality in the 90, 120, or 150 minute option? Not sure if I understand which will burn quicker… I feel like the 90 minute would burn quicker but it seems like I remember reading that if you use the 90 minute on a 30 minute film it has to fill up the empty space and that takes longer or something like that…
thanks guys
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Yes, use the 16:9 Preset, but change the standard “best quality” 90 min preset to be a CBR setting and set the bit rate to be about 7mbps. This is done in the Inspector of the MPEG video settings look in the quality button’s window for these two settings – much better quality in the end. Encode times will be faster because it’s a single pass constant bit rate. Works best for movies under an hour.
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