Resolutions – Update – Still need help

[Ryan Spanger]

If you are happy with your quicktime (animation) export, and would now like to create a DVD, you need to export it as MPEG2:

– Open Compressor and add your file
– Select one of the DVD standard settings and then modify it as follows:
– Frame Controls: on
– Resize Filter: Best

Ryan Spanger
Video Production Melbourne

[Dennis Leppell]

if this is a standard definition, 4:3 DVD, your FCP settings are off.

720×480
DV-NTSC

If it’s HD, 1280×720 (for 720P)

I know it’s (the FCP settings) smaller than the Camtasia export…. the Camtasia footage gets scaled down to fit the screen (assuming this is SD video). We left Camtasia at a higher resolution to get the most versatility out of it….so if you need to zoom in on a part, the image won’t degrade.

If you export the timeline and view the video on your computer, it probably will look like a mess….NTSC video (which is interlaced) is for TV playback, not a computer (progressive). Once you burn it to DVD, it should look exactly like it should.

Tom, if you see this, there’s a chance I’m missing something here, or misinterpreting something. Could you please clarify….it’s sometimes hard for me to explain my workflow, especially when writing from memory (i’ve been working on a PC for the last week or so, no FCP in front of me to check), and since you wrote the book (literally), you may pick up what I’m missing.

REGARDING WORKFLOW, I still prefer exporting a self-contained quicktime from FCP and dropping that directly into DVD Studio Pro, whereas many will say to export MPEG2 video and AIFF audio, or export self-contained, bring that to Compressor to make an MPEG2+AIFF. Exporting a self-contained is much faster than exporting MPEG2+AIFF from FCP, so you do the export, drop into DVD SP and get back to work. Exporting self contained, bringing that to Compressor for the MPEG2+AIFF, and bringing those to DVD SP is adding an extra step, since DVD SP would use Compressor internally to make the same files. Time is money, so the less steps/faster steps, the better