Michael Sacci
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Could the settings have been changed. As long as you use ac3 audio the average needs to be no more than 4.8 Mbps for 120 minutes.
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Those presets are to fit that amount of time on a DVD-5 so if you are burning to a DVD-DL you are over compressing. If you want to go to a Dual Layer disc you can encode as high as 7 Mbps for the video as long as you use ac3 audio. At this bitrate it is best to use a CBR encode over a VBR but you have to make this preset.
If you want to get the best encode send the video to compressor from your FCP timeline, this ties up FCP and Compressor but the encode is the cleanest.
No idea why you cannot burn DL on a MBP, they all had drives that can do it.
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[Carter Jackson] “What’s going on? More specifically, what am I doing wrong?”
Cannot see what you have done from here. Can you post some specifics. What audio codec are you using?
Have you tried your disc in more than one player?
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There is a bunch of post about how to get the best or better quality.
But more info would help, what are your settings, are you having a problem with the main video or your menu.
[Michael Scichowski, II] “After making a reference video in FCP. I imported the asset into DSP… Left it to encode overnight. After coming back to burn…without a dvd burner in the system that will “calibrate laser properly” to burn a double layer dvd I used Build/Format to create a DVD image. “ This makes no sense to me, what are you saying is the problem here. How long is your video?
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[George Phillips] “H.264 formats” will be turned into m2v on burn, so you are wasting time and quality going to that.
You have to give specific settings and procedures if you want help.
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Normally the actual frame rate for video is (and should be) 23.98.
Unless you really have an old system and a lot of tape hours, I would work with DVCProHD all the way through the process. If the footage is shot 720p24p I would capture and edit 720p 23.98. Keep it simple and straight forward.
If you do want to use SD to edit with, I would edit DV50 anamorphic 23.98.
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What type of HD Tapes? what type of system will they be edited? What capture card/device do you have?
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Century Optics has a .75x that is zoom through – https://www.schneideroptics.com/Ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=1074&IID=864 but it is over $1200, there is no cheap lens for this. They have a much cheaper one but it does not allow zooming and it is still close to $500.
This lens adapters can be rented if you just need them for a project every now and then.
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In the bin (before you place it in the timeline) scroll way to the right until in see the anamorphic column and click it for all the footage, it will now show up are anamorphic in the timeline (of course the sequence needs to be anamorphic also).
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That is a shame, I’m pretty sure some of the Sony Hi-end cameras will send a true 23.98 frame rate, since there decks record that frame-rate. I think manufactures need to think out side there closed systems to make there products fit into different workflows.