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Prepping for DVD Creation – looking for best practices for settings
I thought I’d seen the last of my blue drinks coaster media, but low and behold,no!
So simply, can anyone suggest a best practice document or better still any particular settings they’ve discovered to create the magic sauce, please?
Here are my thoughts:
1) Output Master file from FCPX
2) Import to Compressor
3) Use Create DVD destination
4) Cringe and wait patiently as I burn through a stack of DVD’s finding the quality to encoding to bit rate balance I need.Can anyone help me out please? More specifically, what settings for a Master file, if any, would be ideal and then what settings in Compressor would be ideal?
Regards,
Lawrence
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5 Replies
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i’d go ProRes so you have a solid enough source for the MPEG2 downconvert. It often looks better than going straight from a timeline to MPEG2- for whatever reason.
Noah
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Noah,
I went with a Master File with ProRes 422HQ – just because. Output was, quite happy to say, exquisite. When I used the Create DVD destination in Compressor, the end result looked a tad ‘feathered’ or out of focus. Would this be a factor of down encoding to MPEG2?
Lawrence
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That would depend on your settings in Compressor but considering it’s highly compressed MPEG2 @ 720×480 vs the 1920×1080 ProRes or better I’m assuming you’re coming from… it is what it is.
Might want to confirm you’re doing something like: https://larryjordan.com/articles/compressor-dvd-compression-settings/
Noah
FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
FCP eXchange – FCPX Workshops -
Did you input that file by hand into Compressor?
Or did you “Send to Compressor”?
I too am attempting to burn some DVD-Videos, and it aint pretty.
FCP X 10.2.2 – user since FCP 1.25
iMac mid 2011, MBA mid 2012
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Patrick,
I shared out from FCPX with a ProRes422Hq Master File (default) – see attached image.
After that, it was using the “create DVD” destination in Compressor and clicking “Start Batch”
Lawrence
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