Pixellated DVD from FCP Project

[Mark Suszko]

Fingers crossed! My gut says somewhere some scaling is going on that’s wrong, so maybe these settings will help, but the player and TV must be set to view native 3:4 Sd programming without altering it, to be sure. To be scientific, we have to eliminate all the variables and tweak one thing at a tim.

[Dean Longfield]

Hey Mark – Thanks for taking the time to help out. Unfortunately the DVD burn still had the pixellation in the same spots. I’m going to try sending it through Compressor…

[Chris Babbitt]

Dean,

How long is your program? Your bit-rate is appropriate for a 2-hour program, but if it is shorter than that, you can increase it. If it is under 1 hour, I would try a constant bit-rate of 7 or 7.5. Also, encode your audio using Dolby. I’m not sure DVDSP has that feature. You may need to use Compressor.

[Dean Longfield]

Program Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

i made a separate MPEG2 video, and an ac3 audio track, instead of an all contained .mov, and it worked.
Did the above in Compressor.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Much appreciated.