Need Help with poor quality DVD from FCP project *TIGHT DEADLINE*

[Dennis Leppell]

Seriously, give up on the iDVD idea. It may get the job done, but DVD SP is part of the entire Final Cut Suite. It’s meant to work with FCP, Compressor, Motion, et al. If you drop your FCP self contained movie into the asset bin in DVD SP, it will automatically encode the video using the ‘engine’ in Compressor….If you delve deeper into the preferences of DVD SP, you cam even adjust the default encode rates, or have it encode in the background while you build the menus. It’s very powerful, and not that hard to learn. You’re going to be encoding in Compressor for a while anyways, why not just open the program and try it?

Follow Michael’s instructions, and you’ll get it done.

[Dan Herz]

Hi Michael, I followed your directions and I burned a DVD successfully. The problem is that, while it plays beautifully on my computer, it will not play in a DVD player….when I tried, it gave me an error message stating “incorrect disc” or something similar. Any ideas?

[Dan Herz]

Thanks, I did what you instructed and when I imported asset into DVD Studio, there was video , but no audio. When I brought the file in after compressing in compressor, the file type is MPEG-2. What am I doing wrong?
thanks

[Dennis Leppell]

when you use compressor to make your dvd files, it spits out TWO files. 1 MPEG2, which is your video, and 1 AIFF, for your audio. You have to bring both of these into DVD SP, and place both in the track.