how to get it from FCP to DVD under 3 days render?

[Walter Biscardi]

720×405? That’s an off size.

My guess would be about 6 hours or less to render your file to MPEG-2. We’ve done feature length docs here and it doesn’t take that long to do. Making H.264’s for the web take longer than MPEG-2’s.

The other way to do it is to simply downconvert from HD to SD before the compression if you want to pick up speed. We’ve done this too. Lay off the feature to HD tape then downconvert in realtime during ingest back into the system via our Kona 3’s. Then create the SD DVD from that.

We work both ways with it here.

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[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for the help…yeah the odd size is I guess the 16 x 9 bit, I bring it into Compressor using the SD DVD 720 x 480, then it makes it into that odd size.

Maybe your thought on HD tape would work best…

Thanks

K
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[David Roth weiss]

Kent,

Turning on Frame Controls will exponentially increase render time.

Frankly, I’m not at all sure why you have frame controls on and why you are deinterlacing a DVD. Your titles are most likely funky because you are deinterlacing. Neither setting is necessary and both are causing the excessive render times you wish to cure.

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[Kent Beeson]

Appreciate your thoughts – with Frame Control ON the Text looks good, with it off they look terrible…but you’re right re: deinterlacing…can’t find a way to turn that off if Frame C is ON…

Thanks

K
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[David Roth weiss]

Have you simply tried one of the presets “as is” before adjusting the settings? Honestly Kent, trying to extract extra quality out of MPEG2 encoding might sound like a great way to go, but unless you know exactly what you’re doing, you can just as easily create grief instead of curing it. You really should not require frame controls or deinterlacing on to make your titles acceptable on a DVD. I suspect you’re simply masking one symptom while creating others.

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[Kent Beeson]

Good help, thanks…I’ll try using the Apple 90 min DVD preset and see what we get…

Thanks

K
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[Kai Cheong]

Guessing your MacPro is a multicore system, you can speed things up by setting up your clusters for Compressor in Qmaster. Works very well on our early 2009 OctoCore.

Good, simple tips here:
https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2009/05/qmastercompressor-troubleshooting-tip.html

Kai
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