[Michael Scichowski, ii]

Final Thoughts…

Thanks again for your help and suggestions Michael I appreciate them!

So I am now leaving compressor to bake straight from FCP at a CBR of 7Mbps…

I am going to assume that I am going to take the .m2v file it puts out and lay it on a track in DSP and then is there a setting to change so it doesn’t compress it again to the DVD?

I have yet to get onto DSP yet because it is a nice long 7+ hour compression process on the MBP…

As far as it not burning it was either the cheap quality of disk I had purchased to do my test burns on, or a bug… It would error something to the effect of “unable to calibrate laser for unit”

Thanks again! I am hoping by Friday I can mail it off to get dup’ed and then by the next Friday have something for the client to finally sell!

~ Yes I made my start in Windows Movie Maker! ~

[Michael Scichowski, ii]

Definitely some clarification! Thanks!

Now the quality of the audio for this video isn’t quite so imperative as the quality of the video…

But I am going to assume as far as DVDs go ac3 is the best to go with…

is this a correct assumption?

Thanks Again!

~ Yes I made my start in Windows Movie Maker! ~

[Michael Scichowski, ii]

Let me start again.

I have a 2h13m vid. w/ ch. markers…

I need its ultimate destination to be a DVD… if at all possible without losing quality to a DVD-R…

This is what I have done…

Exported the video as a ref. vid. w/ ch. markers…

Imported ref. vid. as asset into DVD Studio Pro 4, added a still image as a menu background with sub menus for the ch.

After a final build/format onto the HDD, because the DVD drive wouldn’t burn dl DVD’s. I moved to a comp that did and used disk utility to burn it.

Why does the quality look like sd streamed over the internet?

I want to say the video put out of DSP4 was NTSC 4000…

Does this make and sense?… now?

Thanks again!

~ Yes I made my start in Windows Movie Maker! ~

[Michael Scichowski, ii]

Thanks for the reply!

I am not sure what settings I would be looking at in DSP… I will be looking at them tomorrow as far as what is set in DSP…

But I left the office with Compressor cooking the reference video on MPEG-2 Best Quality at 150 minutes…

Does that sound reasonable for a 2 hour 15 min video to be put on a DVD?

The main problem I am having is that the video that I watch in FCP look a lot cleaner, especially around the edges of the graphics, lower thirds, LiveType video files overlaid on to video, before I export a reference video into DSP.

Again, I am shooting into the dark as far a being a noob at some of this conversion game. I am reading as much and watching as much as possible to get this straight… I think I may have put myself in a bit of a bind with not knowing enough about exporting as much as I do about just editing video…

Yes I made my start in Window Movie Maker!