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I am currently exporting from final cut pro to compressor. I am setting compressor to the best quality and then importing the files into DVD pro and burning it. But I would like to get my stuff onto U-tube/email to family/friends etc. What settings in compressor do I use to maintain the quality of video (quick time seems to loose so much of the res, image size etc, it looks terrible.) Is there some where that I can learn more about web streaming (books, on-line.)?
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I've imported a giant cd collection for my boss in wav format for the best quality audio using iTunes version 11.1.1. I need to transfer this library to our Music workstation using iTunes 11.0.1. That workstation version of iTunes can't be upgraded for compatability reasons with other software using iTunes. When I try to transfer the library I lose all of the CD metadata and end up with only track names. Is there a way to transfer everything along with the metadata?
Not easily. WAV format does not store tag information in the file. Realize both AIFF (equivalent to WAV) and Apple Lossless (full quality but smaller files) do, so WAV was unfortunately the worst format to chose.
If you have to go with what you have you will have to explore exporting the library as .xml, moving it and the files to the other computer, then rebuilding a lower version library with the two sets. I am not sure if you can do it with the library.xml file that already exists or if it too differs according to version. You may end up having to export the files as a playlist. You will, of course, lose artwork too, though you can try fetching it from the iTunes Store later.
Some of what you need to do is outlined in these articles though you have the added limitation that you are not building a library of the same version. (It really is a piity you choose WAV, otherwise you could have simply added the ripped files and most of the data would have traveled with them.)
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20401436 - turingtest2 11/2012 post on rebuilding empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash from previous iTunes library file.
iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451 -
New to 16x9 format, how get best quality when using standard dv footage?
If I am capturing standard NTSC dv footage, and adding standard dimension digital photos, what capture and sequence settings should I use to get best looking 16x9 output? I know I can export as 16x9 and burn a 16x9 DVD in DVDSP, but I was thinking I should capture and edit that way as well to get best quality.
Thus far, I've been editing everything as 4x3 and assuming the tv's these will be shown on will compensate, which is generally true. I would like, however, to give my clients the option of which output option is best for them.So, a client would have to give me 16x9 raw footage for me to produce a true 16x9 DVD?
Yes.
I know I can't produce HD DVDs, at least not cost effectively, and most people don't have players anyway.
Right. None of us can. The movies from the store or Netflix aren't HD. HD has no current relevance in DVD production (other than as acquisition formats).
I do want their footage to look as good as
possible on those large screen tvs.
If you produce a good DVD it will look good. All the other DVDs that are 4:3 are just that - 4:3. Same with 4:3 television. If they were produced well they should look great on any screen.
1. I'm starting with DV NTSC raw footage, a low-res
codec.
OK.
2. I'm compressing to MPEG-2 to be playable on an
SD-DVD player, a further low res codec.
OK. But you really mean "to be playable on a DVD player".
3. Regardless of what I do, it's going to be
low-res.
Regardless of what you do, the resolution is limited by current DVD technology. That is, in the NTSC world, 720x480 whether it's 4:3 or 16:9.
Does MPEG-2 always look crappy on an HDTV? On a 72dpi SDTV, it looks acceptable. Is there a workaround for HDTV?
Whether or not it looks crappy is subjective. If Hollywood-produced DVDs and SD television look great on it, then it's possible to make it look great.
Your real limitations - the ones you have control over, are:
- quality of camera, glass, and related equipment
- quality of lighting, audio, camerawork, production in general
- recording format (DV ain't the greatest).
- editing format (hint: you don't have to edit in DV)
- quality of editing / editor
- quality of MPEG2 encoding
In your case I think the last one is the most relevant. If you aren't getting acceptable results you may need to learn more about MPEG2 and Compressor.
BTW 72dpi is a print term, it has absolutely no meaning in video.
Further question, if I'm doing a photo slideshow, not DV footage, can I leave it uncompressed or will it convert to MPEG-2 and stink regardless?
To make a DVD movie it needs to be MPEG-2. That's the technology we have. But it doesn't have to stink. The MPEG-2 you use is the same MPEG2 the studios use with movie releases. The technology is the same, the difference is that they have people who really really know how to use it well.
There is a way to make actual slideshows from JPEGs which play from a DVD or CD. I know little about this, but I suspect that the resolution is still limited to 720x480. Someone will correct me if that's wrong. But you don't have to put them through MPEG2 compression.
You may benefit from finding out what 16:9 really means. All it means is that the display is wider. That's all. There is no implication of a quality increase, in fact from DVD playback the 16:9 picture will always appear a little softer than SD if viewed on a widescreen device. That's just the way it is. -
Best performance vs. Best quality in iDVD Prefs!?
What is the difference? i have selected "best quality" and see no difference in picture, but one can fit more onto a dvd with best quality vs. performance. what is the difference!? thanks!
A quick, simple explanation is given in David Pogue's little iLife '04 manual. I will pare it down a little:
"Given that a blank DVD contains a limited amount of space, how much picture-quality data can it afford to devote to each frame of video?
The Best Perfomance option in iDVD 4 ....allots a fixed, predetermined amount of data to each frame of video--enough to make it look great--no matter how many minutes of video is included. A lot of the DVD might wind up being empty if the project contains less than an hour of video. But, the burning process will go quickly and the video will look really great.
The Best Quality option uses every micron of space on the blank DVD, analyzes the amount of video included and divides it into the amount of space available on the DVD. The amount of information used to describe an indiviual frame of video will vary from project to project, and it will take a lot longer to burn the DVD because of so much analysis. But it will give two hours of great-looking video per disc." -
Fce, what is the best format to use?
have the home movie on dvd which I am pulling off with either handbrake or streamclip. what setting do I use for the output? the mac guy in my pro lesson mentioned there are many diff mpeg4s...but then wouldn't elaborate because even though it MY HOME MOVIE, that I SHOT MYSELF, and is on dvd, that it is illegal and he can't talk about it since by definition dvd is encoded and that is against the law...and to write my congressman to change the law....yet I don't feel like waiting that long to see if someone can tell me what is the best quality to use.
also, I am now using my sanyo c6 which puts it onto an sd card, which I can connect via usb2 and bring right in...is that ok quality, or is that also not so hot?
thanks,
DanThe video & audio on playable DVDs are encoded as MPEG2. It is not DV video, it is MPEG2 video. MPEG2 video is a totally different format from DV and is much more highly compressed than DV.
To convert a DVD's MPEG2 format to the DV format needed by FCE, you need a tool such as MPEG Streamclip. Streamclip is capable of converting many different video formats to DV however if you need to convert MPEG2 video to DV it relies on QuickTime. The error message you are getting is that your system does not have the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component, which you will have to purchase from Apple ($19) if you want to use Streamclip to convert MPEG2 videos to DV.
DVDxDV and DVDxDV Pro are good products but they are respectively $25 and $80. The Pro version is a better choice than the regular version imho because it has more features and will give your converted files timecode. Not absolutely necessary, but very nice to have. The more video editing you do the more you will appreciate having timecode. Streamclip is free and the QT MPEG2 Playback Component is $19. -
Best Quality Share/Compression
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Does anyone know the best way to Export my iMovie to get the best quality, without using iDVD? When I use the 'Full Quality' setting the resulting Quicktime looks jagged and not as good as the raw iMovie. I'm not technical enough to understand the Expert Settings. I just want to store my movies on my Powerbook without using up too much disc space, so I can bore my friends with them!
Thanksan export "QT Full Quality" is a bit identical copy of the final project in iM... best possible quality...
BUT!
QTplayer/pro has many options to set (every frame/full quality), to see the final quality PLUS iM is for video; your Mac has 4 - 6x the res of a TV, no interlace , etc... as often told here: final quality can only be judged on a telly....
make the playback window smaller, to res of TV - quality 100%...-
to make files smaller, use the latest (QT7) codec h264 - long encoding, needs fast Mac for playback.... if you need the files just for playback, using iDVD for a diskimage (mpeg2) is no bad choice... -
How do I access websites that warn: "Firefox is NOT compatible with this application. For best performance, please use Internet Explorer 5.0 and above...."? When I try to download any alternate browser, all I get is another warning that the alternate is "not compatible with your operating system." Is Firefox preventing this? The site listed below is a job application site. I've had this same problem with other job application sites also.
== URL of affected sites ==
https://storefront.kenexa.com/lithia/cc/Home.ssThere should be a User Agent Switcher menu item under Tools, which gives you the browser names you can impersonate.
The menu item name changes to the browser UA you are presently using.
There is also a User Agent Switcher button, you can add it using View -> Toolbars -> Customize, and dragging the button to your toolbar.
See http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/features/ and http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/help/
You can just start trying IE versions (or the versions it says on the site) until it lets you in. -
I am trying to e-mail a graphics pages document I made as a PDF file. After trying to resize the file, the photo's quality is compromised (really blurry) even after choosing "Best" quality. What am I doing wrong. As a regular full sized file (PDF) it's fine, but when it gets reduced, it's bad and it needs to get printed from the e-mail copy I'm trying to send. HELP! Please.
If there are a lot and/or large images the file will inevitably be large, no matter what.
You can reduce them down as far as possible by cropping and scaling them to the final size before creating the pdf. You can do this by opening the images in Preview .app and using Menu > Tools to reduce the resolution and to crop.
If you have used transparency effects eg shadow, reflection, transparency, 3D charts, OSX will by default render these at 72dpi in the pdf.
Peter -
I would like to be able to size images by kilobytes instead of pixels--is this possible? I use I-Contact which requires a maximum of 70kb per image. For best quality I want to make the images as close to 70 as possible. Currently I choose a size of 300 pixels on the shortest side but sometimes this gives me an image of slightly greater than 70kb and sometimes the image is just 30-40kb. Is there a way to be more precise in reaching but not exceeding 70 kb?
That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.
You can opnly resize using the available options and file size is not one of them
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Need help with getting best quality for DVD's.
The best quality you can get is to first understand that the biggest frame you can play back using a DVD player is 720x480. So no matter how big the image is going into iDVD it is throwing away some information to get it all to fit 720x480. Your best option then is go to Share Menu > Media Browser... Then choose the Large size.
Open iDVD and find your video project by clicking on the Media button in the iDVD lower right hand corner. Then above that there's the media browser window with the Movies button on the right hand side. Click Movies button and browse for your project under the iMovie star icon.
Drag that project into a clip and burn the project to a DVD-R. -
I'm going to save my old Hi8 tapes on a hard disk using final cut pro x, to save it for the future. But how shall I export it, and in what will be the best quality to save it in?
Hi Carsten...good luck with your project.. I had just about as many Video8 & Hi8 tapes as
you that I digitized and eventually brought into FCPX..took me many months not weeks
to do so,BTW, as each tape was 60-90 minutes in lenght...and many hundreds of
gigab ytes of storage ( uncompressed AVI files)..it's tedious work unless you plan to farm
it out to a processing house...also regarding eventual storage format...remember
Hi8 is 400 lines or about 540X480 in todays resoultion metrics..you can't make hi-def out
of source that starts out as 400 lines...in my case I rewrapped the avi files into .mov
containers and imported the mov files into FCPX where I got rid of the hundreds of
minutes of Colorado mountain landscapes to get to that one minute shot of the kids
on horseback ( late 80's for most of my archives)..so its a job..scouring thru 30X90 min
of source to not miss those precious memories takes diligence and hard work but its worth
it; eventually I encode the uncompressed video I want to save in H.264 format Staandard
Def not HiDef -
i want to produce wedding dvds.whats the best software to use...final cut x I'm thinking but what about the quality of the dvd? Can i use idvd?
The only Programms I worked with are DVD Studio Pro and iDVD. You can burn a Video-DVD with Toast but there is no real option to design your Menu. Just a few themes as far as I discovered.
Do you have a Blue Ray Device to burn* the HD-DVD? Are the Bride and Groom able to watch the Blue Ray?
* which is only possible with DVD Studio Pro and not iMovie as far as I know.
This might help
For better quality I would go the Compressor & DVD Studio Pro workflow I just learned.
Export the Movie as is from Final Cut Pro and then use Compressor to encode the File.
Consider delivering the Movie in a different way like a private video on vimeo, a Website or on an SD card which is not really romantic... -
What is the best program to use for making high quality gifs?
Right now I'm using gifbrewery to make gifs from youtube videos. I was just wondering, in your opinion, what's the best program or way to make the best quality gif possible? Thanks so much!
This is the Flash Player forum. You would have a much better chance to get a reply if you posted in the Creative Suites forum, and explain what kind of app you want to build.
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IMovie '08 option to make the best quality video on a DVD using iDVD '08
Which iMovie '08 option will make the best quality video on a DVD using iDVD '08?
1. Share-Media Browser-Large-Publish
2. Share-Export Using Quicktime
3. Or can you use an unpublished iMove in iDVD?
(Of course I'll have to first get iDVD to open without crashing...)Which iMovie '08 option will make the best quality video on a DVD using iDVD '08?
1. Share-Media Browser-Large-Publish
2. Share-Export Using Quicktime
3. Or can you use an unpublished iMove in iDVD?
As always, this depends on a number of factors which you failed to cover in your original question.
1) If you source files are SD, other than an increased loss of time in converting you gain nothing in scaling the files up in iMovie '08 only to scale them back down in iDVD. On the other hand, if your source files are HD, then you will likely see a marginal increase in quality which may or may not be worth the price of increased processing time. In this latter case, you are allowing the MPEG-2 compressor to get the most it can out of your file at the P- and B-frame level.
2) Export using QT allows you to customize your output with regard to both compression format and settings. For instance, you can use a codec with extremely high data rate (e.g., VGA dimensions with DV at 28.5-57.0 Mpbs, AIC at 18.0-22.0 Mbps, or even unlimited H.264/AAC at 16.0-20.0 Mbps). High video data rates generally translate to less lost quality during the re-compression process. Thus, if the intermediate file produced by iMovie '08 and passed on to iDVD retains more of its original quality, the MPEG-2 compressor can get more quality out of the final conversion as stated above.
3) Since no physical file actually exists until the project (simply a set of instructions detailing how the final file will be created) is published, there is nothing to be physically sent to iDVD. basically you must create a physical file from the project in order to do anything at all whether sending it to a gallery, iTunes, YouTube, iDVD, etc. -
Getting Error - Exporting Sequence (FCP 5) using 150 min - Best Quality
Keep getting error trying to export a sequence in Final Cut Pro 5 using Compressor settings DVD 150 min Best Quality. It's exporting the audio files, but not the MPEG2 video file.
The sequence is about 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Any ideas? (FYI: THIS IS FOR A DVD MASTER THAT WILL GET DUPLICATED FOR CONSUMERS)
CJ
310-228-8266I am having the same problem. Did you find a solution?
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