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Getting good quality DVD from Toast 11 using fcpx
Hi guys,
Im wondering is there anything that can be done about the way toast 11 compresses video onto DVD. I shoot and edit wedding videos and while I get really lovely HD video , the quality diminishes once I burn to DVD via toast 11. I realise that toast will compress my HD video but im wondering is there any way if I change settings or use another DVD program that my DVD quality will be the same quality as the video I export from FCPX.
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Firstly, it’s never going to be the same quality because you’re going from HD to SD when you make the DVD. Plus Toast’s encoder is notoriously poor quality.
That said, and I haven’t burnt a DVD in many years now, when I was using Toast, if you gave it an already encoded MPG2 file it just created a DVD from it without re-encoding – so just use Compressor or whatever to create the DVD compliant file and then get Toast to burn that.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
No DVD is SD and a huge drop in quality from HD. Not much you can do to fix that. Sell your clients on the idea of Blu-rays if you can
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