Project Burned to DVD: Jagged Lines?

[Joe Martino]

Ya I am going to give it another shot. Our final wont be out till end of Aug or early Sept so lots of time to play. I’m about ready to take a bath on the whole thing anyway. My biggest “piss off” is how the text looks. Might try making an image in PS with my text vs. using the text slug from FCP. Seem to have better results.

Thanks!

[Chris Tompkins]

Did you use the “boris 3D” text? and not the basic text in FCP?
It’s much better.

You should post a screen shot of the text.

Thin text won’t hold up well.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Courtney Alberson]

Hey! Not sure if you’re still having trouble. I fought tooth and nail with the FCP suite for weeks. After 50 DVDs with VERY low quality results, and several goose chases (including stumping the one-to-one FCP guy at the Apple Store), someone gave me the answer.

Basically step one is you need to convert the sequence to 720p30 before you start compressing and burning it. (right click on the sequence>Settings and change the Pixel Aspect Ratio to HDV 720p30). While you’re in there, change the Quicktime Video Compressor settings to match. You will have to re-render the entire sequence (it may look a little squished, but that’s ok). I also checked the Anamorphic 16:9 box because I had already completed the production of the sequence and couldn’t afford to have anything cut off.

Then export that using File>Export>Quicktime Movie with Current Settings. Afterwards, take that file into Compressor and compress it using the Apple>DVD>DVD: Best Quality DVD 90 min (using a VBR somewhere like 6.0 – 7.7). That will give you the m2v file that you can then import as an asset into DVDSP. It worked like a charm for me! I can’t tell you how many hundreds of files I tried before finding this solution. The process I followed is listed out here with all the screenshots: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/hdv_to_sd_dvd.html

Here is a screenshot of my sequence settings: