FINAL CUT to DVD – jumpy playback

[Colin Mcquillan]

As far as jumpy playback and ugly lines go, I think you may have your fields reversed. Are you monitoring with an external CRT? and are the nasty lines you talk about what you see on your computer monitor or on a TV from the DVD after it is burnt? If it on a TV then you have your fields set wrong somewhere, If its on your computer monitor after export from FCP,, then this is normal. Make sure your field dominance in your iDVD project, Final Cut export, and Final Cut Timeline are correct.

I always use compressor to export from FCP to make DVD’s , and use the “best 90min” setting if disk space allows. I use DVDSP to author DVD’s though,, not sure about iDVD.

Do a search on in the FCP forum on DVD export settings, I’ve seen this topic come up a bunch of times over the passed month or 2.

cheers,

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Lawrence Vaughan]

Thanks Colin!

The lines are after I export and watch the DVD on a TV. I don’t use another monitor, just my mac one. The fact that you have seen this topic crop up on here before is slightly comforting, at least I know it’s not just me who is having these problems.

I’ll do a search and have a look for a solution, which really – is what I should have done in the first place.

Thanks.

[Mark Palmos]

i think colin is right about the field thing.
in pal, DV has a different field order from SD or DVD MPEG-2, and for some reason both Premier and FCP do not correct this automatically. Make sure you are rending with Upper field first.
If this does not work, then apply the field switching filter (not sure exactly what its called) and advance the field by +1 on each clip in the timeline and re-render. That should sort it.

mark.

[Lawrence Vaughan]

cool. ill give it a whirl, hopefully it will fix it.
thanks.