Hi all, i am a new comer to the world of digital video, how can i obtail the best Mpeg2 file after i finish all the editing in FCP?

[Creative Animal jan]

Apple’s Compressor is quick and it’s included in FCP Studio.
If you need more parameter-control and better results, try BitVice

https://www.innobits.se/

regards

Jan
managing director
Creative Animal
The Netherlands

[Alexander Gao]

there is no benefit to setting any of the frame resizing filters and that sort, such as detail level, and antialiasing, and motion filtering, and all that crap when encoding with compressor. Just follow a preset and it should look just fine.

Alexander Gao

“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

[David Fortin]

What codec are you editing in on the timeline?

You mention the need to smooth pixels. If you are having problems with text, graphics or photo edges, it may be that your QuickTime Video Settings in your sequence is set to DV. This will make your graphics look kind of crappy.

What version FCP are you using?

If you are using FCP4 and have QuickTime 6.5 installed, EXPORT a self contained QuickTime movie using the 8bit Uncompressed video SETTING.

Then open this movie in QuickTime and do am EXPORT from QuickTime to MPEG-2. Set your OPTIONS to ONE PASS. Target Bit Rate 6.5 Mbps and Motion Estimation Best.

If your video was good to begin with, this should get you good looking DVDs.

You’ll also have to convert the audio from AIFF to AC3 using APack. Here’s info on that:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/a_pack_warmouth.html

Good luck

David

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