Best way to get quality DVD

I just finished a short (7-min) video, mostly of hi-res still images. What is the best way to get this thing onto DVD and looking it's best?
Thank you!

I have done a couple DVD's of a 2 hour long video of a three camera shoot and they came out pretty good... so this is how I did it.
I am assuming your project settings are for DV/NTSC. That being the case, I simply used the Export QuickTime Movie feature in the file menu. When the prompt comes up, it should default to Current Settings on the "Settings" drop down menu. Click ok, and voila, you will have a .mov movie file of your sequence in DV/NTSC specs. Also, I should add, that if you are setting up chapter markers in FCP, select which markers you would like to use in the appropriate drop down menu.
From here, just import the .mov file into iDVD or DVD Studio Pro and make the DVD. I have used both DVD authoring programs, and they both come out looking great.
If you want to go HD, or maybe convert to PAL format, or whatever, just select the setting you want in the prompt box for Export QuickTime Movie in FCP.
It has worked for me so far and the DVD's look great. Hope this helps.
Good Luck!

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You can get good results with the Photoshop method, make sure to use larger fonts (20pts+), Sans-Serif, flatten all the layers, rasterize text etc. (Sounds ike you have the last part down.)
Make sure the menu is the proper size and do not let DVD SP scale it. If you are using one of the presets (NTSC, NTSC widescreen, etc) from Photoshop, etc it works well. I prefer picts or tifs, would avoid jpegs.
Not sure what the pixel dimensions are, but make sure they are proper (in other words you do not want DVD SP to rescale at all) Not sure which format you bought in (JPG, PICT, TIFF). Also there can be a hit depending on how you make the menu - in a nutshell DVD SP 4 has certain instances (not all) where menus will have to be compiled/rendered (Pg 230 of the PDF), but other things are not.
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The advice to go to Compressor left out the part that you may want to convert your audio to AC3 becaus ethe MPEG2 bitrate is probably too high for DVD specs.
This method is in the DVDSP manual and it's in the Compressor manual, both difficult to locate, but easily searchable.
Here's what I'd do: Export the timeline form FCP in the native sequence settings, self-contained. Bring that self-contained movie into DVDSP and let DVDSP handle the transcode.
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I'm strugglin to get DVD onto my noka 5800. It's not obvious in the user manual and looking around the web i need to 'convert' it to the fim on.
Please does anybody have an easy, fool proof way of doing this??????
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What is the best way to copy a DVD I made from iMovie? It was HD720 and I don't want to lose any quality in the copies. I need to distribute it to about 20 people. It's 42 minutes long.

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My wife has compiled an iMovie '09 project that has about 42 hours worth of dance videos. The project consists of many clips of all sorts of esoteric dancing, with a brief fade between each one. It looks fine on her iMac. She wants to show these videos on a TV at the "Dance Ladies Retreat" that is coming up in a couple months. Some ideas we've considered are:
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Geoff: Thank you for your reply! I downloaded VLC Player and was able to read a DVD's worth of my wife's project that she had copied onto Aimersoft's DVD Creator software. First I saved the Aimersoft DVD Creator file onto my flash drive, and tried to play it on my PC with Media Player. No joy. VLC-Player worked like a champ!
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I haven't recieved my video iPod yet, its coming in the mail, but I'd like to be ready when I get it. In your opinion, what is the best way to get DVDs onto your iPod?
I have Windows, so Handbreak doesn't work.
I've tried videora, but its taking ages...
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*Just noticed you can edit*
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Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but could someone recommend me the best way to get 5.1 sound of a Mac Pro. Since I don't require hi-fi -level sound, just simple directional audio for gaming and such, I wouldn't like to pour a lot of money to this. As I see it, I'd need an external sound card, internal PCI-E soundcard or speakers that have an optical input. I would like for the cost to be in two digits, euro or dollar.
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Once again, the issue of 5.1 w/Apple comes up.
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Your Mac Pro or Macbook only has a single line-out, that supports 2 channels at the maximum. Optical audio will only handle 2 channels as well- it's the same signal (in two channels) on a different medium, basically.
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-SC
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Best way to transfer a DVD to FCE please, unknown files!

Hi there friends....
Ok, so I had the unfort situation of my Canopus transfer box blow up!!
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Hi
Same in iMovie as in FinalCut.
I prefere -
• Roxio Toast™ to back-convert to streamingDV - or -
• HandBrake - or -
• raw way - DVD-player to a miniDV tape Camera and just copy.
*DVD back for futhur editing*
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• Copy to miniDV tape from set-top DVD-player --> Camera -or-
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D. Read what Karsten collected.
*DVD back to iMovie.*
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//discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3822853&#3822853
DVDs are in a socalled delivery format (mpeg2), which isn't meant and
made for any processing as editing... or, as honorable forum member
QuicktimeKirk stated. I use the analogy of the old Polaroid
"instant" cameras. Push the button, wait for the print to develop and
show it off. ..
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//danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
//danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
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from Beverly M.
//docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
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