[Bradley Stoloff]

[David Roth Weiss] “Okay, I apologize. I’m cranky this morning.”

It’s cool man. Monday mornings are terrible at the best of times.

Thanks for the advice.

What I’m understanding so far is that I should export as a QT .MOV file as one step, encode for DVD using compressor as the second step, then burn to dvd using DVDSP as the third step. All the while making sure the audio is .AC3 and the bitrate isn’t too high, and not try to do all these things at once or using the same program (as I have been doing).

I’ll make sure to keep a close eye on it now!

Thanks!

[Bradley Stoloff]

I’m not sure on what the bitrate is (in it’s entirety, not just this instance), but I’ll find out and have a go at changing it.
Would I be right in assuming lower is better?

I just found out about the ‘not doing anything else while it’s burning’ thing and I think that may be a big part of my problem as sometimes I’m photoshopping or typing when the dvd is burning. I was led to believe there was a ‘burn proof’ feature that allowed you to multitask.

I watch as many of them as I can before I send. I don’t ge chance though sometimes. I usually have someone stood over my shoulder snatching them from the drive while they are still hot!

I’ll try all you suggested though. Thanks for replying!

[Bradley Stoloff]

Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure what the data rate is and I’m using Verbatim DVD – R’s.

I don’t think it’s the dvd player as they do the same thing through the mac laptops, Stand alone DVD player and pc laptops I put them through.

I’ll see if I can figure out compressor and try putting it through there. Although I think I read something on here about the ‘share’ function using compressor to do it’s work, or at least the same method as compressor. Have I missed something?

[Bradley Stoloff]

Aww man, I’m not asking you to do it for me. I just wanted pointing in the right direction.

I got this particular film today at 11:00am and it needed to be in the post for 15:00. I know that is an easy reachable target, but I had my own work to do too.

I’m not a video editor or cameraman or anything, I’m just the only one here who has the little knowledge needed to get the film from camera to DVD. I looked through the help folder and couldn’t find what I was looking for (probably because I don’t know the correct wording for what I’m looking for) and I went through a few forums, to no avail, until I found this one.

I just needed to know if there was anything obvious I was doing wrong, me being a complete novice and all.