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PSD to FCP to iDVD
I am sure this may be painfully obvious but in all of my days upon days of digging, I feel like a cat chasing her tail… it’s very simple but for some reason I get a glitch in my logic.
My goal is to make a DVD which will be used with a digital projector.
Here it is what I think I ought to be doing:
Photos into PhotoShop (either scanned or digital download) ought to be sized at 720×540
My Timeline in Final Cut should be set to 720×540 NTSC SQ or 640×480 NTSC SQ – both with Square Pixels — IS ONE BETTER THAN THE OTHER??
Import the photos to FCP, manipulate as necessary…
I output a Quicktime .mov using H.264 720×480
Now I wish to take it into iDVD — are ANY my aspect ratios correct for digital projection?
Kind thanks in advance for kind responses.
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WOW, so many mis-informed steps.
Fine is Photoshop (you can resize them to 720×480 if you like, they will look wrong but that is okay.)(
Use a ProRes or uncompressed 10-Bit 720×480 sequence setting Field Dominance set to NONE (NEVER use square),
[Rene Spencer] “manipulate as necessary… “
what do you mean by this, since they are full screen you really cannot do much (just transitions between them), if you want to do scaling, pans or any moves like the Ken Burns effect they need to be oversized.NEVER go to H264 before going to DVD. NEVER, Export above setting as self contained.
Then do yourself a favor and take the movie to Compressor and encode it to m2v, making sure you keep it progressive. Then author the disc in DVDSP instead of iDVD, but iDVD will use the m2v also if you really need to use that.
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