PLEASE HELP!!!

[Arnie Schlissel]

You can open an mpeg (either .mpv or .m2v) in the free VLC player: https://www.videolan.org/ Well worth it, not only because it’s free, but it also plays fully authored DVDs, mp4, WMV and any other number of other formats regardless of whether QT supports them or not.

[weevie833] “First, you will not be able to simply open an MPEG2 file in QT unless you have the Mpeg2 component in your Library/Quicktime folder. It is available here:”

I can open .m2v files in QT from compressor on all the Macs I work on, & I’ve never had to buy the playback component. I assume that it’s installed with DVD SP.

Arnie
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[Aine Ni fhaolain]

hey tom

this is what i ended up doiing eventually. i think it may have worked,
I just exported it as uncompressed which ended up as a quicktime 33GB
and then dragged it into i dvd, but before this i changed the size
settings to 704×400. This seems to have worked and it is showing up on
screen as widescreen. not quite sure why but i dont care at the
moment. next thing is to get my hands on DVDSP then all my troubles
will be over. thanks for all the help.

[David Bogie]

[aine] “Before i was exporting using quicktime conversion but i was told not to do this because the film needs to be in MPEG2 to go onto DVD. So what i dont understand is, if iDVD doesnt accept my compressor MPEG2 files then how does anyone make a DVD on it. “

You could have saved us all a bunch of trouble if you had included some of these details in your original post. Since you have FCP, you also have DVDSP. Since you don’t have DVDSP, you’re running a very old or very suspect version of FCP, neither situation helps us help you.

MPEG2 is the DVD spec but all you had to do was open up FCP’s online help and look for iDVD or open the iDVD help system to find that you cannot import MPEG2 into iDVD.

FCP is a huge application and it comes with 3000 pages of manuals. Read those manuals.

bogiesan