Workflow advice

[Al J. marschke]

You can download Avid codecs and export as Avid files from FCP. Just download the “free for 30 day media composer” and install. Select the Avid codec of your choice and export.

Thanks,

AL J. Marschke
BluMars Media
Pittsburgh, PA

[Matt Jones]

Thanks for the advice,

I normally don’t use presets. I typically do tests on my compression software, before I use but time has been a factor.

As far as iDVD, I didn’t know it could compress a 13-14GB file to a 4GB file, with it still looking decent.

Thanks for the input.

[Andrew Kimery]

Why are you using iDVD instead of Compressor and DVD SP to make your DVDs? Use Compressor to make the DVD compliant MPEG2 and use DVD SP to author and burn the DVD.

Using Handbrake like you are is an unnecessary step that costs you time and image quality.

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Rafael Amador]

[Matt Jones] “As far as iDVD, I didn’t know it could compress a 13-14GB file to a 4GB file, with it still looking decent. “
IMovie can take 140 GBs of 10b Uncompress footage (90m) and put it in a DVD with good quality and sure that will look much better than if you compress it to H264 before.
The size of the MPEG-2 it doesn’t depends of the size of the original file, but the lenght and the data rate you set when compressing.
As Andrew suggest, start to have a look to the Compressor manual.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com