Carl Rohumaa
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OK 10.6.6 update has fixed my bug. It took about 7 minutes to burn a 6 second clip of DV Pal straight from FCP 7.
So I eat my words. And pictures.
Video Tech
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Share works for me except when I check the box “Make DVD” (under DVD). If I do not check the box then it makes the DVD assets fine and shoves them in the designated folder. I would really like to be able to set this up so it will actually burn the DVD as it seems to suggest.
Yes I do know the other many ways of making a DVD but I want this advertised feature to work as I have paid for it to work.
I have many labs of video edit workstations and this would be the ideal near idiot proof way for my students to make their first DVD.Also I did have to fiddle loads with the qmaster prefs. Not sure if these are all ok?
I don’t actually want to network render a 3 minute SD DVD in a mega processing cluster. The error I get when I check “Make DVD” is:-
If I am missing something please tell me! BTW this works great in iDVD! Geeesh……….
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Interesting. Are you totally sure that your media and your sequence are the same? If they are not then the final playback will not be able to de-interlace so you will get jaggies. Jaggies are where you no longer “see” the interlacing lines as they are embedded in the video forever. Check your media in the motion tab and make sure there is no scaling or under distort no aspect ratio setting. The aspect should be 0.
If they are not right you will have to make a correct sequence first and then cut and paste to it. The resultant video will be distorted so make a clip right (get rid of any scaling and aspect distortion) and cut and paste the motion and distort attributes to the other clips. This should be foolproof.
You should be able to go straight to compressor with no rendering or other export. In fact some delete all their render files before export to force a “clean” export especially with complex edits.
If this does not work then there is a serious bug to file in FCP. Don’t make your mpeg from a reference QT export as Compressor uses your edits in the timeline as compression markers treating each clip individually.
FCP can be “clever” at making your media look OK in the timeline when it is really distorting it to fit. Obviously all clips that have had frame resize or speed changes etc will not de-interlace either so in the sequence these clips need to be de-interlaced.
Feel free to shoot me down in flames if this is wrong folks or if you have a better insight, or something else to say about it.
One day there will be no interlacing!?Video Tech
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Yes don’t re-compress all frames if you don’t need to.
Video Tech
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Hi No quality is lost if you do a straight export of the sequence as a QT FCP .mov Even if you do check the box that says re-compress all frames the difference is negligible in my experience. In fact as another poster has mentioned it is actually safer to use your QT version to then make the MPEG2 in Compressor.
The sequence and the QT should be identical.Video Tech
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Brilliant thanks guys you have (so far) confirmed my argument. (See my reply to my own post).
I really like David’s take on this. Make the QT and use it to make the MPEG2! Makes total sense. Especially if you have a crazy edit with ten layers and a dodgy plug-in your mate made in xcode. Rendering on FULL sounds sensible to me also.
Please read the reply I made to my own post and tell me if there are any bits not quite right or even if I am totally wrong.
Cheers
CarlVideo Tech
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Please correct me if I am wrong but this is my take on this. Sorry this is a bit long!
The format for a SD DVD is MPEG2. Certain types of exported .MOV (within a Quicktime container) files can be used in DVD Studio Pro. For example you can export simple edits from FCP without re-compressing frames and use these in DVD Studio Pro. But when you do this it will still have to be encoded to MPEG2 and will show in the assets list as status “yellow” (needs encoding) not “green” (ready to go). This means you cannot always simply author your DVD and then hit BURN. Sometimes you need to first make a build (this is the bit where the encoding takes place) and then burn the disc after showing DVD Studio Pro the correct folder where the build was created. So the time you thought you were saving is not really saved. Also every time you burn this project it will have to encode the video. Fine you can use the previous build but if you make any alterations then an encode will have to take place anyway.
The real problem here is that not all edits will safely export as a nice smooth FCP Movie files (another name for a .mov). If the edit has used an exotic mix of media or third party plugins or an esoteric plug-in chain things can go really wrong and end in corrupted un-compilable media (without re-compressing all frames).
The margin for error at the export stage cannot be overcome. Students will sometimes export a movie as SD and sometimes as HDV. They then may try to make a SD DVD with both types of media and hey presto DVD Studio Pro chokes. Or they make a mistake and go for Quicktime conversion and make themselves any number of incompatible formats, some very cruely will show as status “yellow” but will not compile.
I do think it is good practice to make a QT version of a finished edit though. It is a sort of back up of your edit. A master file you can use to re-edit or encode into any format you desire, even MPEG2.
The other option is this. Export your sequence as an MPEG2 with the brilliant easy to use FCP helper application Compressor! This way your assets will show as status “green” in DVD studio pro. Usually you can go ahead author your DVD and then hit BURN and you will end up with a SD DVD (if you remember to set PAL SD). OK so you will have to also export your audio separately but this can be done at the same time as exporting the MPEG2. In fact you could as so many often do export a whole plethora of formats for different uses. One for your SD DVD one for your HD DVD , YouTube Format, iPhone MP4, web, podcast etc etc.
Your corrections comments opinions much welcome
Cheers
CarlVideo Tech
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No. My video is that aspect because that is what I intended. You would not make a movie 16:9 just because that’s the most popular end user delivery format. You would fit your aspect within that. When was the last time you saw a movie that was actually 16:9? I am not distorting the content I am scaling it. OK I am not using the real estate above and below but then I do not want to.
Also I am not using After effects. I did not mention AF anywhere!
I use Quartz Composer to make my content (much more fun than AF). It actually just runs as a QC “track” inside a QuickTime movie so is not an actual render, its Quartz still running inside. I am using QC to code custom applications such as a generative video synths and custom compositing tools. -
It is always best to work in as high a resolution as possible right up to when you trans-code to an end user format. Like when you replace the intermediate files with the original HD, 4K, RED or whatever
It makes total sense.
As regards DIGI beta you are missing the point. Digi Beta has nothing to do with my project. I never mentioned Digi Beta anywhere. -
It is always best to work in as high a resolution as possible right up to when you trans-code to an end user format. Like when you replace the intermediate files with the original HD, 4K, RED or whatever
It makes total sense.
As regards DIGI beta you are missing the point. Digi Beta has nothing to do with my project. I never mentioned Digi Beta anywhere.