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Its divisible by 4, which is better for a QuickTime encode.
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“When determining the size that you want your QT movie to be, there is a good rule of thumb. Both dimensions should be divisible by 4 and better yet by 16.”
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/qt_movies_from_fcp.html -
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That will happen if you’re standards-converting, using PAL DV movies in an NTSC DV sequence. -
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If only the audio needs rendering once the file is in a FCP timeline, then the movies have been captured as .dv DV-stream files, as used in iMovie.
QT .mov files with the DV/NTSC codec are what they need converting into in order to work with FCP.I have quite happily uded FCP to edit DV footage captured in Premiere (older Mac versions), or with Sorenson Squeeze’s capture utility, but off-tape Timecode isn’t always useable once in FCP.
If tape timecode is important its best, as Walter says, to stick with FCP for capture. -
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Google comes up with this page:
https://www.pure-mac.com/audio.htmlLook in the Converters/Encoders column.
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The Mpeg Streamclip site links to Perian, which is up there on Apple’s site:
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[NickSly] “Every time I try to import a quicktime movie to DVD Studio Pro the program crashes.”
So a) try with different QT movies. If they work then DVD SP is OK, its the movie that’s the problem.
Then b) remake your movie, either in the application is was created in, or by Exporting it to a new recompressed movie in QT Pro.[mortimer heathcliff] “why i (we?) don’t just use QTs more often when making DVDs. it seems like it would save one step of compression. “
Correct. If you are using DVD SP’s basic mode’s interface creation bells and whistles, then your motion menus are all going to be recompressed, so its better to use less compressed (non-Mpeg2) assets.However a big percentage of the viewers of this forum will be using DVD SP’s Advanced mode, and will create all their menu and motion menu ingredients in other external applications, and will use Compressor to encode the main movie assets (which won’t be recompressed by DVD SP), and will indeed bring in .psds and lightly or uncompressed menu loops to build the menus, using DVD SP to do a once-only encode when the DVD is finally built after authoring.
So you asked exactly the right question. You’ve just got to have the courage of your own convictions to devise for yourself (with a little help from your friends here :-)) a workflow that doesn’t make compromises – like encoding Mpeg-2s twice…
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[jebidiah99] “…the best way to do it? “
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The ‘best’ way in terms of visual quality is to edit the graphics twice in two timelines, one for NTSC and one for PAL, editing the video in the one that matches the standard the video has been shot in.
Either the Nattress Standards converter plug-in, or Compressor can be used to convert all the unedited video footage prior to cutting it in to the other timeline.However this is labour intensive, so the best = cost-effective method is to cut everything in the video-native standard, then use the Nattress plug-in or Compressor to transcode the lot to the other standard.
For the DVD you will have to create two sets of appropriately sized menu assets, whether within DVD SP, or outside using FCP or Photoshop.
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Answered in this forum a mere 14 hours or so ago, or so…
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/927267?
“If you Export from Mpeg Streamclip using the Export to DV setting you get a .dv stream, as used in iMovie.
What you need to do is Export to QuickTime, then choose the Compression setting Apple DV-PAL.” -
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If you Export from Mpeg Streamclip using the Export to DV setting you get a .dv stream, as used in iMovie.
What you need to do is Export to QuickTime, then choose the Compression setting Apple DV-PAL.