FCPHD to DVD STUDIO PRO looks icky

[Eric Grush]

Not wanting to sound foolish, but what brand of DVDs are you using? I have sufferred through numerous encoding variations and export options to find that I was using crap DVDs. Some of the nicer white label DVDs used for labeling aren’t worth a damn. Too often I tried to save a buck on cheap DVD stock and the quality really sufferred. It was a DP friend who pointed out the problem in the stock. Most editors don’t think about stock, but DPs do and he was right. I spent the extra money for high quality discs and it helped with the pixelation issue.

Eric GRush
Hal Arts Media Entertainment

[Chris Poisson]

Eric,

I use Taiyo Yuden, have not had one bad disc or client complaint in the 2 years I’ve been using them.

[Ed Dooley]

I’m (generally) with Chris on this. They had a “seconds” batch a while ago that wasn’t identified by them as less-than-high-quality. People in the know posted batch ID numbers to warn users. Other than that anomaly, they’re considered top of the line.
Ed