HDV to SD dvd issues

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

HDV to SD dvd issues

Posted by Stewart Charles on October 6, 2009 at 12:17 pm

I’m having major problems with making a SD DVD from HDV.
Ive edited a video in the HDV format and every time I make a dvd the video on v1 in fcp looks very good, any video placed in v2 or higher looks bad when the dvd is made.

Im just about to try a tutorial on ken stones site and it tells me to use quicktime conversion whats the diffrence between this and below?.

I tried going file>export>QuickTime movie and selecting proress 422 1440x1080i it didn’t work it was as bad as the HDV to SD DVD in compressor!

IM shooting on a sony z1 editing on a macbook pro with final cut studio 2

thanks for any help

http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk

Stewart Charles replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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David Roth weiss
October 6, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Stewart,

Are you rendering your timeline fully? Is “Full” checked in the Sequence>>Render All drop-down menu? It’s not checked by default. If not, check it and re-render. If it is, then you have some other issue, because the behavior you’re experiencing is nothing anyone else has ever mentioned here on Creative Cow.

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Stewart Charles
October 6, 2009 at 4:27 pm

thanks for the reply.
Ive checked and yes its on. there is a tick next to full in render all and render selection.
any idears on what else it could be?

http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk
Stewart Charles
October 8, 2009 at 6:34 am

Im assuming the problem Im having is due to the footage being 50i

I have the following workflow
complete edit select all the clips in the time line and go file>export>quick time conversion select proress and check the make interlaced box.

its made a massive improvement.

http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk
Michael Gissing
October 8, 2009 at 6:51 am

I go straight from the FCP timeline using export to Compressor and select a preset like 90 minutes SD DVD. This converts from the HDV timeline straight to the SD mpeg2 file for DVD Studio Pro.

Using the QT conversion to ProRes simply transcodes the footage and it still needs to be downconverted to SD mepg2 for the DVD, so you gain nothing by this extra step. In fact you lose both time and quality, although you are unlikely to notice the quality difference as ProRes is good.

Yes, you should stay interlaced and no, it has nothing to do with 50i if you are making a PAL DVD. Remember all 25 frame codecs are upper field except for DV codec which you should avoid like the plauge.
Stewart Charles
October 8, 2009 at 9:52 am

thanks for the post, Ill give this a go.
Id been told that it takes ages to do it this way and its quicker making a self contained movie!. I which there was just one way of doing it and it worked really well!

as for dv since switching to the mac form pcs Ive only used it once and the results where amazing.

thanks again for the post

http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk
Stewart Charles
October 11, 2009 at 9:41 am

Ive tryed this out and its the best way! its the only way I can manage to maintain the qulity I want. thanks for your help.

I have however deleted the apple dvd settings by mistake in compressor is there any way of getting them back?

thanks again for your help

http://www.thin-kingmedia.co.uk

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