Too early for DVD StudioPro with FCP

[Guy]

I would try doing the conversion to WAV in quicktime on the mac if you aren’t already or use A-pack on the mac to make ac3 files. Or try exporting directly from FCP timeline as a WAV file (I’m not sure if this works)

[Amund Lie]

Exporting to MPEG2 from FCP via Compressor always causes sync issues, so don’t even bother!

Export a Quicktime from FCP first (either self contained or not), then drop that file in Compressor and convert to MPEG2 there. You can do the audio compression elsewhere, although I am not sure how many formats DVD Studio Pro accepts (if you are going to use this application). Just to make sure that your audio stays in sync, it might be a good idea to convert audio in Compressor at the same time. With the default setting it will be uncompressed AIFF so there should be no quality issues if you want to re-export this to another format. Also don’t forget that you can export to AC3 via the A.Pack application which should have been installed together with DVD SP. All DVD production systems will accept AC3 (but dont forget that this is a compressed audio format).

[Steve Connor]

Don’t touch compressor in FCP, use “export using quicktime conversion” from the timeline – it works perfectly.

Steve Connor
Cardinal HD

Steve Connor
Cardinal HD

[Alan Lacey]

Thanks for all guys, a lot of help.

It was Forge that caused the problems.

Alan

[Chris Poisson]

Alan,

This will make it so simple.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvd_sp_2_basic_mode.html

[Todd Beabout]

What kind of problems do you guys get using Compressor from FCP?

I only ask because after burning 100+ DVD’s in that manner, we have had no sync issues at all to deal with. (I don’t really like tying up FCP for the duration of the encode, though…)

Just wondering…

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Ren Hinks]

[Todd Beabout] “What kind of problems do you guys get using Compressor from FCP?

I only ask because after burning 100+ DVD’s in that manner, we have had no sync issues at all to deal with.”

I’m new to FCP (AVID editor) and I’ve spent the last day trying all three options listed in this thread with a :45 minute piece and I have had no sync issues with any outputs.

Exporting as a Non-Self Contained “Quicktime Movie” (using the Current Sequence settings) versus exporting “Using Quicktime Conversion” made more sense – no need to re-encode anything before it hits the Compressor encode to MPEG-2 as far as I can tell; just create a QT reference file.

There was no hiccup in the Export using Compressor either (I also HAD to try it when someone says it doesn’t work :>) because I was exporting Interview SELECTS on DVD to the writer and was using the TimeCode Reader filter on top of all the clips which caused FCP to Render a Self-Contained QT even when using exporting “Using QuickTime Movie” and not checking “Self-Contained”. I’m assuming FCP does this because the added filter had to be “rendered” for export even though the timeline was still “grey” – I definitely couldn’t trim clips in RT before the Export with this filter on – dropped frames like crazy.

The resulting QT “Reference” file was 7 GB so I thought it would be great if I could avoid that step and go directly to Compressor – it worked OK. But it’s clear that it ties up both FCP and Compressor so it made me wonder; are there problems if there is not enough memory on-board to run both apps in this manner. I’ve got 2GB ram in my box.

ren