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using compressor to get a file to burn on a DVD
want to export a sequence (duration 1 hr 48 minutes) from an HDV 720p24 project in FCP 5.1.4, then burn to an SD DVD via DVD Studio Pro.
Go to compressor, select DVD best quality 120 minutes. What do I want to submit from the batch monitor, exactly? Obviously, the MPEG-2, but what about the AIFF and the Dolby Dig for sound? Once I have the files exported and drag them into DVD Studio Pro, will that automatically sync up vid and audio, or are there some other steps I need to take?
Sorry for the novice questions, but just finished a cut of my film that I finally want to show and this is my first time dealing with getting this out to DVD (with the exception of dropping my exported file into a 29.97 sequence, exporting that, and burning via iDVD, with results that weren’t very acceptable).
thanks so much for any help
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8 Replies
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Hi,
From Compressor you will get two files, an .m2v file thas is the video MPG2 and an audio file that will be .aiff or .AC3. Those files you only have to drag to the DVDSTP time line. You shouldn’t have any problen with the sync.
But you want to make a SD DVD from a HD movie. I don’t know if you better downgrade your HD film to SD before the compresion, or if you should do it all in one step. My experience is limited to SD PAL and NTSC DVDs from PAL and NTSC files.
Cheers,
rafael -
I have found that nesting an HD sequence into an SD sequence then exporting to compressor works quite well.
I recommend you use dolby .ac3 over .aif though as thats (aif) uncompressed and could potentially cause stuttering on some dvd players out there if your video bit rate happens to exceed 7mbps.
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I second Borjis – has endless problems with builds in DVDSP until I switched to AC3 audio – used to have to do it via the (now defunct) A-pack, but now it’s right there in compressor. It stops your bitrates getting too high essentially, and causing the disk build to fall over.
Don’t worry about sync, by the way. When you drop these both into a track in DVDSP, they will be synced up fine – never had a problem.
Ben
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You will want to make sure that you have selected a frame rate of 23.98 and no field dominance in compressor. That way you will make a 24p DVD and keep the nice pictures with no interlace. Compressor does a fine job of down converting your footage. You should also select a 16:9 Aspect ratio.
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thanks so much for the input
just one more question: compressing my sequence (@23.98, 16:9 to DVD best quality 150 minutes, 2-pass VBR) estimated compression time was 19 hours. Yeah, I know I selected the 2-pass VBR option, but still seems excessive. Is this normal?
Whew! In the ol’ Avid, you just route the Avid to your DVD deck, hit play in Composer and record on the DVD deck, and 2 hrs later, you got yourself a DVD of your movie. Would be nice if FCP tried to make this whole process a little less of a time-consuming headache.
thanks again, everyone
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[target-rich] “Whew! In the ol’ Avid, you just route the Avid to your DVD deck, hit play in Composer and record on the DVD deck, and 2 hrs later, you got yourself a DVD of your movie.”
If you had a hardware capture card such as a Kona series card, you could do this in real time as well.
Jeremy
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Dont get scare. If Compressor tells you 19h, think that will take the half of that time. Compressor estimate that the audio will take the same time to compress than the video, but the audio will be compressed very fast. So that 19h will be 9’5 h.
9’5 hours to make a “Double Pass”, depending of the power of your computer is not that much.
I’ve never used the Avid compression on the fly. Must be really nice do it like that. Fast, but I think you can not do a “Double Pass” in such a way. For the “Double pass” de movie has to be analized first and them compressed.
Cheers,
rafael -
will do. thanks again.
Guess I better start looking into that Kona issue, too.
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