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Outputting movie from FCP4 to iDVD to burn DVD
Hi – I need to output a 34 minute film from FCP 4 to iDVD to burn the highest quality DVD I can. The material is NTSC. I have done it before, and got completely confused on returning to it.
1)Is it OK to use – (not +) DVDs to be viewed on a US DVD player?
2)I mark in and out points, on the time line, then FILE>EXPORT>QuickTime Movie…
Then I get lost. Do I then take that movie using QT Conversion and Sorenson 3 it? I’ve done that and it looks and sounds terrible even using the ‘BEST’ quality.
As a final check, what format of file should i be dragging into the iDVD project? FCP Project file, FCP Movie File or a QuickTime Movie, and what size would you expect it to be. One of the QT movies is 11GBs and only looks ‘OK’ (compressed using VIDEO and BEST). The other problem about the QT movies is that they don’t take the chapter markers with them, and they’re important for the presentation of the movie.
THANKS! to anyone who has time to help out there. Arabella
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Export as Quicktime Movie. If iDVD is on the same machine, then UNCHECK “Make Self Contained”. This will make a Quicktime reference movie of your timeline…there will be no additional compression or degradation from what you see in FCP. The file will be fairly small…well under a GB for a 34 minute film…
Drag that file into iDVD. iDVD handles the MPEG2 compression. Thats it. Dont do any Quicktime conversions to other codecs, such as Sorenson…this will completely destroy your image quality.Most DVD players can handle DVD+R and DVD-R, but there are no guarantees. Different models have different capability. From what I have read, DVD-R is slightly more likely to be compatible.
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Hi John – Star! Thanks a million. I’m experimenting with that right now. Arabella
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