Best output for DVD

What's the best output method for publishing onto a DVD that
users can access? I would also like to be able to have the users
continue where they left off previously in the presentation.

HI,
Theres a million and one SWF to AVI converters out there
(Sothinkmedia *dot* com) is one of them. That will also allow you
to attach a playback bar, or, just use the one in your media
player, similar to what you see in YouTube.
Hope that helps.
Cheers

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I'm a newbie and need help. I was outputting from FCP 6.0.4 using Export > QuickTime Movie, then importing that file into DVD Studio Pro. But, a college student who saw it recommended Exporting using Compressor 3.0.3 which I did using the DVD: Best Quality 90 Minutes. I noticed an improvement in my DVD quality, however, in every program I've tried and retried so far I get a little short segment (about a 10 second portion) in my half hour long program that all of the sudden goes crazy with distortion and pixelization and image irratic jumping movements. What can I do to create a totally smooth video when going from FCP to Compressor or is there a better way to finally get it into DVD Studio Pro? I want the highest quality solution as the video footage is originally HD. Thanks for your help, Desperate Russ

coyotegyrl333 wrote:
For some reason, I've always found this to work:
render your project and make sure you have only one
video track in the timeline. Drag existing sequences into
a new one so that you accomplish this. Render.
Restart the computer.
Export using compressor.
Maybe this is mumbo-jumbo, but it works every time for me.
good luck to you.
The advice is more or less sound but you have several unnecessary steps. Your idea is to consolidate all of the FCP timelines and their associated media into a single timeline; you are nesting the project.
Forcing everything to render is good.
Export the entire project as a self contained movie.
Import the self contained movie into DVDSP.
You would perform these steps with each of the individual movie clips you want to have as menu items in your DVD project. Maybe. You might be able to use one single large movie and set go-tos for each chapter. Whatever.
But there is no reason to restart your computer.
And there may be no good reason to use Compressor to create the MPEG2 files.
bogiesan

Obvious ? Want *best* output for DVD - what do I choose?

OK - this seems rudimentary but I've been on iMovie '08 for about 4 months now and it's still not obvious. I am shooting video footage on my Panasonic DV Camera - it's a great quality. I was under the assumption that I can import into iMovie without losing any quality, edit clips and keep same quality (and I'm not changing any color, audio, or cropping, etc - just clipping out some images, adding transitions), then export in same DVD-ready quality. I want to take the footage and put onto a DVD to watch on a TV.
So, why doesn't that seem obvious? I can't really find the right export. It's cramming down size to 640 x 480 and setting quality at medium. Using H.264 is a compressor - and if I want a DVD, I'd prefer it not to be compressed since it's going to be converted to a MP2, right?
Am I missing something? What do I use to Export at the same pristine quality in which I brought it in to then use on a DVD (and I mean shown on a SCREEN big viewing)?
I hate to commit "apple blashphemy" but when I used Roxio Media Creator or Adobe Premier Elements on my PC, the video was of better quality. I have Final Cut Express and maybe the answer is to spend about 40 hours learning it better because I much preferred the ease of iMovie for quick footage. But, I can't stand the end product looking worse.
Seems like iMovie is fine if I want to shove into a smaller-visual-size, poorer-quality video for MobileMe or email or YouTube but not keeping the quality I bothered to take? (And, even with the latter, the quality is poorer when I do a side by side of video footage from my dig camera - canon powershot s5 is - from straight out of the camera AVE vs pulled into iMovie, added transition, uploaded).
I know there are many of you that are professional videographers out there and can still make iMovie work in your flow for short, quick projects - am I completely missing something here?
I just want the best quality output - thanks for your help -
Alexa
p.s. To establish - I am using DV tapes an importing directly. I also have an ADVC-300 for bringing in analog. I am not messing around with anything during capture.

I'm going to have to disagree with the other poster here. I don't think iMovie 08 is touching the DV format as it's captured/edited. It may be using a method of changing the display, by only displaying a single field (as your screen is progressive, the 2nd field is kinda irrelevant unless it's an interlaced display.)
I do promise to go back to Muppet Labs and test this at some point this week.
On the other hand, the real problem is to "share" the work, iMovie is converting it into h.264 format...and then iDVD is converting it to MPEG-2 format.
To work around this, is pretty simple: Export using Quicktime:
For the Video, change your compressor to DV/DVCPro; the footage is interlaced, the quality slider is useless on the DV codec.
Change your audio to 48k 16 bit stereo.
These match the incoming DV footage, and should export it out 'untouched' for iDVD to make an MPEG-2 file from.

Best Workflow for Dvd studio Pro

I am looking to get the best possible workflow for dvd output. I currently just export my FCE HD project as quicktime movie NOT self contained. I then pull it into DVD Studio Pro 3 and after i do all the menus I build and burn the dvd. The image quality is good, but after reading alot of posts here it seems alot of people put their projects through compression before dvd studio pro builds the project. Should i be doing this?
Thanks.

Well, use the best encoder you can get your hands on. If you can budget for other encoders then maybe do that. Compressor will give you more control so its a good place to start,
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4:3 vs 16:9, best choice for DVD?

What reasoning do I use in determining the best format for me to produce my DVD, 4:3 or 16:9? I'm just not sure of all the pros and cons to either, but it seems like 4:3 is going the way of the 8-track tape and with more and more TVs at 16:9, should I even bother with 4:3? Thanks.

fbcbootie wrote:
Since I can't produce both versions, I just want to satisfy the majority.
You can make it compatible with both formats. It will play full screen on a 16X9 monitor and letterboxed on a 4X3 monitor.
This is done all the time. It depends on your choice of authoring software, and the format choices you make within that software. In Toast, for example, you simply select "Automatic" for the Aspect Ratio. In DVD Studio Pro, you choose 16:9 Letterbox as the aspect ratio.
Most people think that seeing the letterboxed image on a 4x3 set gives the video a "cinematic" look.
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BEST COMPRESSION FOR DVD

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#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:
The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:
1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.
2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.
3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.
4. Now, select the green one, right click on it and select the top option "first play".
5. Now drag your QT from the browser and drop it on top of the green monitor.
6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the "general tab" in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select "16:9 pan-scan."
7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.
THATS ALL!!!
NOW...if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose "16:9 LETTERBOX" instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.

Best codec for DVD export for editing

If I want to burn DVDs for a client who will want to edit the footage later, what's the best codec for that?

What editing application will they be editing with?
DVD's aren't the best archival solution. They hold 4.7GB of info, and that is like 20 min of DV quality footage. Forget about HD quality...Oh, unless you use HDV. That's the same data rate
Shane

What is the best output for archiving in Quicktime?

Hi,
I'm producing webvideo. The video's are converted to quicktime and dropped on a videoserver and converted to flash.
The most important footage is archived to tape but I'd like to archive all the output. What is in your opinions the best setting for output in quicktime with less space and enough quality to use again in webvideo. Final use will be 800kb flash video.

You should archive the material in it's native format so that you have the possibility to revisit the project and make changes or generate master files in other formats.
Use the Media Manager to consolidate your project into a single enclosing folder. This can be compressed into a .zip file or disk image. It will save space if you dont include render files, even more if you make the material that came from tape, offline -although you will have to recapture in that case.

Best settings for DVD project

I have done all of my work so far for online projects so I didn't realise that dvd always has dimensions of 720x576, and that it is only blueray which plays in full HD, until I started building a DVD project in Encore.
I would like some advice to produce the best possible results on a dvd format;
I presume that this means I must build all my menus in photoshop to 720x576 dimensions?
But what about the video itself? It was filmed in 1920x1080, and was created on a 1920x1080 timeline in Premiere Pro, can I simply export it at as an SD file?
What I'm asking really is how should I export my project from Premiere, and build it in Encore for best possible results for DVD format?
Thanks in advance

If you want the best conversion this method is regarded as one of the best,
Bellune Digital Video Services - Tutorials - hd2sd - High Quality Scaling From HD to SD
I'm sure there are topics about this in this forum but I couldn't search and find them.
If your HD material has a lot of fine detail that might strobe try adding a Gaussian blur to your HD export, I find a setting of 3 to 4 vertical helps.

Best format for DVD studio pro??

I will be exporting from FCP4.5 and am wondering what is the best format to get the best possible quality from FCP to DVDSP? Also, should I go through compressor and what settings should I use?
I also want to make my own video transistions, what is the best format for those as well?
Thank You

The movie is 90 minutes.
You didn't mention your video format. You can export your movie as QuickTime Movie (not QT Conversion), same settings and self contained (my favorite flavor). The use that movie in Compressor and use the Best Quality DVD: 90 min presets encoding your video to MPEG2 and your audio to Dolby 2 (AC3).
That's the best standard workflow. With standard I mean that sometimes some kind of footage can need different treatment.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Best Program for DVD/Video converting

What is the best program for converting DVDs and videos? I know one is videora or something like that. I want something that is easy to use and dosen't take up alot of time to install.

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What's the best output for burning to HD DVD

I'm working on some projects that I would like to burn to HD DVD. The original footage is captured with a AVCHD camera at 1920x1080 (highest setting) then ingested to Apple Intermediate Codec 1920x1080 to retain the highest quality. Now I want to output them and burn to an HD DVD using Toast 9 to retain the highest quality and avoid re-encoding the data. What would be the best settings to use to export from FCE?
Thanks,
John
(BTW - Yes, I know HD DVD is a dead format but I've got a player and the ability to burn playable HD Discs so it's still a viable format for me!)

Thanks Tom,
That was the first thing I tried and it came out Format : Apple Intermediate Codec, 1440 x 1080 (1888 x 1062) with Normal Size: 1920 x 1080 pixels (I'm reading form QuickTime Inspector here.)
So I'm confused. Which resolution is it really? If it is 1440x1080 am I losing quality in the down-rez?
Beyond that, I take what you're saying is that using this output it will only get encoded once going to the DVD. Is that correct?
Thanks,
John
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Best Settings for DVD conversion to Quicktime

I am using a DVD source material for the first time in an edit job. I am using MPEG Streamclip to upload the DVD disk (private material not copywrited) for conversion to Quicktime (.mov) for further transfer to Final Cut Pro 6 for editing, and final output back to DVD (using my FCP Suite programs.) I need the absolute best quality transfer regardless of file size to preserve the original video.
I am using the following settings in Streamclip and I would greatly appreciate opinions if these are the best recommended settings to use for my needs. Thank you very much for all input.
Compression: Apple FCP Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2
Quality: 100%
Sound: Uncompressed
Frame Size: 640 x 480 (4:3)
Interlaced Scaling and Reinterlace Chroma "checked"
Thank you again!

I don't have FCP so I have converted to .dv for iMovie.
But if you want to preserve the original quality you should edit the DVD's MPEG with MPEG Streamclip and re-author that as a video-DVD. Yes, you can then do only straight cuts to the GOP (i.e. max 0.6 second precision):
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG

Firewire DV video output for DVD player?

Hi everyone,
I am just wondering, does anyone know of any way to get the DVD player program to output NTSC DV via firewire like FCP allows for external monitors?
I would love a way to test my dvds without having to waste so many discs... Any suggestions?
-patrick

What is outputting DVD Player's signal to external monitor going to achieve?
The failure of DVDs burned is due either to the media used (the quality of DVD), the bit-rate settings used or more generally, the DVDSP workflow (you are burning via DVDSP and/or Compressor aren't you?) or the DVD player that the discs are being played on. (Different models cope with different variables, bit rates , brand of DVD used, how old the player is, whether the lens has been cleaned last - if at all...)
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P.S. If I've misunderstood the question, please ignore the above...

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