DVD burn quality in FCPX

Aware how to get the best quality out of IDVD with burn speed and other setting, in Imovie,  but is there any such setting with the way a dvd is burnt in FCPX?

FCP X automatically detects and adjusts settings on it's own.  The image quality is very good.

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  • Poor dvd burn quality

    gorgeous full hd clip burn into dvd using imovie (imported full quality size) and idvd setting as a professional quality.. but dvd came out so terrible worst than normal dvd.. anyone has idea what software i should use to have best quality dvd.. maximum professional quality dvd?
    it lost at least 75% quality than original video clip. fuzzy and blurry.. i'm so upset.. anyone can help me? what should i do.. do i need another software to buy? any suggestion? help please~~~~! thank you

    The problem is NOT iDVD.
    iMovie 09-11 is a wonderful program assuming that you're using it for what it was designed to do, assemble videos to share on the Internet.
    There is a regresssion in quality of the image between iMovie 06 and iMovie 09-11.
    I did a compare using the same clip burned to DVD from iMovie 06 and from iMovie 11.
    The iMovie 06 clip looked like it came from the camera directly and the iMovie 11 clip looked worse. The difference is the single field processing used by iMovie 09 and 11, and the fact that it throws out every other horizontal line.
    I have spent many hours trying (and re-trying) all the iMovie 11 quality "work arounds" but my DVDs never look as good as when I use iMovie 06 with iDVD 09 or iDVD 11. With iMovie 06 you don't have to "work around" anything, you always get a lossless result, with very little effort.
    iMovie 06 and iDVD 09 / 11 is a 100% "lossless" combination _and my DVD's look like they came from Hollywood!_

  • DVD burn quality

    The quality of my dvd after burning is terrible. It is shaky and fuzzy. Looks nothing like my imovie.

    Hi
    And where did Your movie come from ? Camera, download
    If downloaded and in wrong video codec this has to be back converted then en-coded - not healthy for e.g. .avi movies.
    Please describe more
    • in what codec original is
    • if edited in what program
    • how did it go from here to iDVD
    • and what did You set iDVD to do (change from NTSC to PAL or other way around is no good idea in iDVD)
    Yours Bengt W

  • :  DVD Burn: Quality vs Compression

    Can anyone offer some guidelines and/or advice about how much video and audio to put on a single 4.7 GB DVD?
    I am using PE 4.I have completed slightly less than half of my movie (about 1 hour including video, audio, & background soundtrack). I burned a trial DVD using the “Fit Contents To Available Space” Quality setting on the disk Burn Menu. The program says that the space required was 3.35 GB. Is this with or without compression?
    The DVD looked ok when played on my home DVD player and analog TV.
    I’m told that there can be a drop off in quality as the amount of compression increases.
    How many more minutes should I put onto this DVD before I begin a second disk (PE project)?
    Thanks in advance
    Alan Baker
    [email protected]

    >space required was 3.35 GB. Is this with or without compression?
    By definition, a DVD is highly compressed when edit video is turned into viewing video
    For SD (Standard Definition, what goes on a DVD) it takes about 13Gig per hour of edit video
    That is compressed into MPEG-2 and then converted to VOB to go on a DVD
    Exactly how much you fit on a DVD, at what level of viewing quality, is a subject much discussed
    Hollywood studios use multi-pass software and will also set coding options by scene, to get the best possible quality
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  • Tag at beginning of dvd burn... but not on the timeline

    I just made my first dvd burn of a fcpx project and when I played back the dvd... it started with the project's video tag.  Yet when I look at the timeline, it's not there.  How do I get rid of this tag being the first video to appear?

    At the beginning of the dvd... on playback of the burn... there is what looks like a (computer/fcpx?) generated graphic.  It has the projects name at the top left and about middle bottom 1/3 is a play button... It looks like something from the event library.  It's there before playing the video and it goes away as soon as I hit play with the remote.  What is it and why is it there?  How do I get rid of it?

  • DVD Burning Poor quality

    I created a slide show in IPhoto including the "Ken Burns" effect. I also added four audio tracks to the slide show. I transferred the file to I DVD with sharing. Two audio tracks were dropped in the transfer and the resulting image quality was poor. Images were wavy and some had skips and tiling. Also the audio tracks that remained sounded like the artist was gargling the words. I'm a recent Apple convert and my I book is only 2 mo. old. Do I have a malfunctioning DVD burner or am I doing something wrong?

    I created a slide show in IPhoto including the "Ken Burns" effect. I also added four audio tracks to the slide show. I transferred the file to I DVD with sharing. Two audio tracks were dropped in the transfer and the resulting image quality was poor. Images were wavy and some had skips and tiling. Also the audio tracks that remained sounded like the artist was gargling the words. I'm a recent Apple convert and my I book is only 2 mo. old. Do I have a malfunctioning DVD burner or am I doing something wrong?

  • How can i improve burning quality of dvd.looks fine in preview on idvd,but final burn quality is poor/

    how can i improve burning quality of dvd.looks fine in preview on idvd,but final burn quality is poor.

    Had same problem with iPhoto pictures and poor burn quality. Went back to original picture file and dragged images into idvd project from there. Set encoding at professional quality and burned at slowest speed. Got very good result with high quality slideshow when played on TV.
    Also tried Old Toad's Aug 30, 2011 advice to get a slideshow into iDVD with transitions, music, etc. from iPhoto.
    Again the quaility of the burned CD was very good. 

  • DVD burning and quality

    While there was a choice of quailty on IDVD, is there the same by burning direct from FCPX?. If so, how do i get the best possible?
    Thanks

    I don't think it matters for a project of that length. In fact for a short project like that generally best performance in iDVD may well serve you better than best quality as it uses a constant bit rate and you have space to spare on the disc. It depends on the content however.

  • PE11 Rip from DVD- putting a menu on- burning that to DVD ruins quality

    First, I've read some things here and there, but can't find the exact same scenarios in other posts, although I'm sure this is a fairly common problem (SIAP):
    Here is a summary of the issue:
    1) Our guy produced a video for our organization and gave me a DVD-R of the 11 minute project. I imported this into PE11 and on the timeline it says .VOB. Now on the desktop, the 481 mb VTS_01_1 file properties state that it is 720x480, 29 fps... although I find it strange that the clip as imported into PE11 in properties in the project assets window says it's 23.976 frame rate. Making things more confusing (don't even know if any of this matters) is that in an instance of Share->Export to Computer, the "source" says the video is 1920x1080, 29.97 fps. Don't know if any of this matters...
    2) Anyways, the reason I ripped it is for the sole purpose of creating a menu on the DVD. So I picked a "HD" template, imported my own JPEG on to it, then attempted as best I could to erase all the buttons except for "Play Movie." AGain, not sure if the Menu functionality has anything to do with the issue, but I figured I'd mention it.
    3) I've tried several times burning the video with both DVD-R and +R using both NTSC Dolby and Widescreen Dolby to burn to DVD.
    The resulting DVD has a degraded, fuzzy image and the black frame lines at bottom and top seem to bounce and jitter.
    The image on the original DVD is clearly HD and looks great, without any bouncing, jittering, etc. Also, the DVD app i used to watch the original on my computer is the same as I used to watch my own burned DVD... So PE11 has clearly degraded the image, something is going on in the export.
    Another thing worth mentioning is that as I look at the video footage in PE11 on full screen, I can see that even in PE11, the video quality is not the same as the original DVD and there are obvious artifacts and just nonsense in the picture... Not necessarily as bad as the burn, but similar.
    I've done a little reading on these forums about .VOB files... I don't fully understand them. Is it that the image is messed up from the beginning with an import from DVD? IS there a way to do what I want (take hiqual video from a DVD, put a menu on it, then burn it back onto DVD?) with PE11? Or is the only way to make a burn from the original source file before it was burned the first place?
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    LorcanPMiller
    Please get a MediaInfo readout of your VOB at the onset to determine what you have, especially standard or widescreen.
    http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
    Special Interest: Frame size, Frame rate, Display 4:3 or 16:9, Scan Type and Scan Order for which I am expecting Interlaced and Lower Field First.
    Here is my take on your situation.
    1. The Canon 6D can capture 1080p video (1920 x 1080 16:9 at 29.97 or 30 frames per second), but from what you wrote somewhere along the line someone put that through a video "authoring" program to convert it into DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc (720 x 480). At this point, we need to know standard or widescreen. Both standard and widescreen will be 720 x 480, but the widescreen will have a 16:9 flag included to stretch the video for display after encoding.
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    b.Your project is going to get messed up and confusing, if you let the program set the project preset for you. You will most likely end up with the default NTSC AVCHD Full HD1080i30 which is inappropriate for your project. So, before thinking or acting on Get Media....open a new project, go to File Menu/New/Project and set the project preset in the New Project dialog for NTSC DV Standard or NTSC DV Widescreen depending on what you find beforehand about the properties of your VOB MediaInfo Then use Add Media/and the appropriate choice based on what I wrote above about VOB already ripped vs DVD-VIDEO ripping.
    c. When you have your VOB on the TImeline with the appropriate project setting, right click the file in Project Assets and verify Premiere Elements 11's interpretation of the file frame rate and other to determine if it agrees with the MediaInfo readout. It would be very unusual if there was a differnce, but...
    d. Whether you have a NTSC or PAL project, all the SD DVD Templates have a frame size of 720 x 576 (PAL sizing). The ones tagged HD have a 1440 x 1080 frame size. Right now I would advise you to stay with the SD ones, but not be afraid to experience with a HD choice if it appealing and see what happening during encoding.
    e. In all this, you did not say what the duration is of this 481 MB VOB file. The standard DVD disc is spec'd at 4.7 GB/120 min. That 4.7 GB in reality is 4.3 GB. You will frequently see the recommendation "for best results, do not exceed 90 minutes on this standard type disc". When you have your DVD disc in the DVD burner tray and are in the burn dialog of Publish+Share/Disc/DVD make sure to check the Quality Area of the burn dialog for the Space Required and Bitrate reading (8.00 Mbps is the max reading).
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    Lots of details. The answers and successes will be in the details. All the contributors here have given you a lot of ideas for exploration and experimentation.
    Please do not hesitate to ask if you need clarification on anything that I have written.
    Looking forward to learning of your progress.
    Thanks.
    ATR

  • Premiere Elements 11: DVD Burn horrible quality.

    Hello!
    I am having issues with getting a decent playback on a video I cut together for a friend.
    It involves video shot with some high resolution images inserted in the bottom corners.
    When I save as a .mpg file the quality is great, but when I choose burn to DVD with high quality both the video and images are extremely blurry and look to have been made low resolution.
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    DaVeachi
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    You talk about what sounds like picture in picture. What are the pixel dimensions of these photos that you are using for the picture in picture. How many of them are there in this Timeline?
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    What are selecting for your preset standard 4:3 or standard widescreen 16:9 type, and is your program install for NTSC or PAL.
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  • Please recommend best DVD burning program and external burner

    My FCPX "Share" will no longer burn a DVD on my MacPro 1,1 via the "DVD" destination. However I can send it to "Master File" and it will make a high quality .mov file. I've then tested using Roxio Toast on a 2 minute .mov clip and it did burn a DVD, but the quality was very, very poor. (Much worse than the DVD that I used to be able to get via FCPX Share).
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    The only thing I don't like about Toast are the menus  .  .  .  which are total rubbish compared with iDVD.
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    http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
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    There is absolutely no danger in trashing preferences and you can do it as often as you like.
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  • DVD Burn problem. "Device error - the target device isn't suitable for use"

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    http://www.bilious.org/filez/forums/Apple/Drive%20Error%2001b.png
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