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Final Cut Movie Export settings…results coming out noisy looking.
HI,
I am not an Editor but am a DP exporting my Demo. Reel from final cut, I read material but cant figure out the best settings for my movie output. I tried using compressor but for some reason the finished film would never open on my computer and therefor I couldnt burn it onto a DVD (I am using iDVD by the way). SO a freind told me to use the quicktime export function, there are MANY choices on the settings (particlaurly for the compression levels) and the ability to do 16:9.
I tried numerous different settings and got OK results, but the results look a bit noisy, and not very crisp on my 4:3 TV, and even when I exported it as 16:9 anamorphic, it looked stretched (16:9) on my computer but when I played the DVD on a 16:9 TV it had side mattes?
I tried the DV/DVCPRO NTSC codec and it was OK, I am trying the H264 codec now so maybe that looks better? any guidance would be much appreciated, as you can tell Im no editor and just want my reel to look good when people watch it.
Thanks very much.
Tomas. -
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Tomas,
If you want to burn to dvd you need to encode to MPEG-2 and Compressor is the way to go. There are folders with settings in Compressor (from fastest encode to best quality) to export to a MPEG-2 file (.m2v video) and an AC3 file (audio) which you can then import into DVD Studio Pro. These settings are presets and should work fine. Possibly you cannot open the MPEG file directly but in DVD Studio Pro you can.
Alternatively, you can also skip Compressor and leave the encoding to DVDSP. For this you should select your timeline in FCP and do File>Export Quicktime Movie… In the Settings, select “Current Settings and deselect “make selfcontained”. This will give you a reference movie that you can import into DVDSP. The encoding settings can be found in DVDSP’s Preferences.
Jaap
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Hi Jaap,
Thanks, I think you’re right, that would be the best way to go but I dont have studio pro, so i think I am stuck with just trying to make the best with quicktime and iDVD for now. I tried using the H.264 compression setting and got a few different quicktimes out of it, but they all had flickering vertical lines, so I guess I will just stick with the DVCPRO/DV NTSC codec for now, which is a shame because its really quite noisy looking.
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Maybe I did not understand everything you wrote.
You are working in FCP, is that right? So you can export your reel sequence to a QT movie with current (the same) settings. And you could use that .mov not only in DVDSP but also in iDVD, right?So, in what codec is your source material, DV NTSC? It should not get worse from exporting it to a Quicktime movie with the same settings. Does it look bad in Quicktime Player? Perhaps QTPlayer is fooling you because it is set to playback DV clips at half quality (look in the preferences). How does the exported movie look when you reimport it into FCP and compare it there?
And I have no idea about iDVD’s quality – but DVDSP is part of FinalCutStudio2 so as you seem to have FCP, DVDSP should be within your reach…
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