making dvd’s

[Stephen Smith]

I personally like to Export out my movie and then compress it in Compressor because it is a lot faster that way.To do it I go to File, Export, Quick Time movie. Make sure it is marked as self contained.

I think if you use the best setting in compressor you will be very happy with the quality. If not you can always increase it. Hope this helps and best of luck.

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[John Fishback]

Most folks recommend not having the video data rate exceed 7.5 – 7.7 Mbps, particularly, if you’re using aiff audio which runs at 1.5 Mbps. You have a bit more leeway if you convert your audio to ac3 at 192 Kbps. However, if you push up the data rate too much, many DVD players will choke. I rarely exceed 6.5 Mbps for video and always use ac3. Stwphen’s absolutely right about Compressor being faster. On our 8-core machine, we encode mv2 and ac3 at slightly faster than real time. You do, however, have to setup Qmaster to achieve speed gains thru multiple cores.

John

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[Joe Jennings]

thanks for the info

[Joe Jennings]

thanks
q-master is something completely new to me as well.
I think i have a general idea what can do, but i think i compressor restricted to my computer only. It took forever for my 30 sec test video clip.

I had watched a tutorial on setting up virtual clusters. Is that what you have to do to make it work faster?

How does q-master actually work?

[Kai Cheong]

Since you have only 45 mins of footage, I’d recommend you use the 90min Best Quality preset [rather than 120min] in Compressor – and as suggested earlier, to encode the audio as .AC3

It’ll probably take quite a while to encode your .m2v and .ac3 files on your MacBook Pro. With my early 2008 model of MBP, I took about 1 hour to encode a 45min video. It’ll help if you have an access to a multi-core Mac Pro which you can set up QuickClusters for.

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[Joe Jennings]

Thanks everybody!
I am now editing on a 2X 2.26 GHz 8core mac pro with 12GB of RAM. Newest version of Final Cut studio as well.
I think I created the quick cluster in qmaster correctly. I referred to the activity monitor and saw processors working in what appeared to be multi-cores?? The first time it did it I only saw one number running at 800%, the second time…I think it was 6 diff. lines, each reading over 200%.

Encoded 30 min of HD footage to mpeg with audio in 20 min or so. So much faster than before.

thanks
joe