Easiest way to Create a DVD

Hi all,
How do I create a DVD from final cut pro. I've just finished creating my timeline and edits, now I want to create a DVD out of it. I've gone through the process of exporting a Quicktime file and importing that into DVD studio pro, then burning a DVD. How do I simplify the process. Can I use a external DVD recorder (firewire) and print to that?
Your thoughts/suggestions? How would you create a DVD? What's the best way and quickest way to do that?
Thanks in advance.
mdawg

#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 amd select the top option "first play".
5. Now drag your QT from the broswer 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.
If you want to output directly to a DVD recorder, you will need a capture device of some sort. If DV, then routing thru your camera will work.
Shane

Similar Messages

  • What is the easiest way to create a dvd from an iPhoto slideshow?

    Having a hard time getting my slideshows to a dvd.  What dvd creator is the best, fastest, and easiest?

    I was in your position six months ago and I stumbled over a whole series of free tutorials by Andrew Devis. They were perfect for me. Try this one and then follow on with the rest:
    http://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Premiere-Pro-1-Getting-Sequences-into-Encore-/ 1

  • What is the Easiest way to create a playlist?

    What is the easiest way to create a playlist without going through all 1500 in my iTunes?  I know some artists I want all their songs.......others I don't.

    I have WMP on my computer and know you can quite easily make playlists within it.
    Then if you connect your player to the computer and drag and drop the playlist into the sync
    screen you should then be able to transfer it to the player.
    Not tried this way as I always use Zen Media Explorer for making playlists.
    Gi've it a try-you have nothing to lose.
    Best of Luck
    ZENFLASH

  • What is the easiest ways to create motion menus in Encore CS5 w/ After Effects CS5

    Hello,
    What is the easiest way to create motion Menus in Encore CS5?  I'm creating a motion menu in after effects CS5 and will import as a menu in Encore, but I want to keep the animation, while the buttons will navigate you to the appropriate timelines.  I want to keep the animation going throughout the duration of the menu?
    Thanks,

    Thanks Stan.  Big Help
    Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:07:23 -0600
    From: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: What is the easiest ways to create motion menus in Encore CS5 w/ After Effects CS5
    The first link is Encore CS5 help. It is a good beginning.  I'm not sure if the tutorial it links to is the same as my second link.  The AE help link below is also useful.
    CS5 allows creation of buttons in AE, but for plain navigation options, I think it is just as easy to add in Encore or Photoshop.
    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/encore/cs/using/WSA5513911-0AD1-440c-BDAD-2E0E806B425E.html
    Here's an adobe tutorial on using AE for EN menus:
    http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0258
    From the After Effects help:
    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7e45 a.html
    >

  • Easiest way to produce NTSC DVD from PAL encore project?

    I have a PAL Encore project with 25fps assets and subtitles. What's the easiest way to make an NTSC DVD from this project? Encore won't let me edit the quality settings to change from NTSC to PAL. These settings are greyed out. I take it they are dictated by the assets. Can anyone suggest how to make an NTSC project easily from this Encore project? I don't want to go back to the original footage. I want to just convert it from these Mpeg-2 files in the Encore project.
    Any help would be much appreciated.

    What Richard said. I'll add three things.
    Encore won't let me edit the quality settings to change from NTSC to PAL. These settings are greyed out. I take it they are dictated by the assets.
    They are dictated by your selections when you created the project. And NTSC vs PAL are not settings that can be changed in the project settings once created.
    Regarding reusing menus. The files accessed by the Encore library for DVD projects are different for NTSC vs PAL. They have NTSC or PAL in the filename, but you don't see this from inside Encore. (They do not vary for Bluray menus.) You can take your NTSC project menus, "save as file," and then "import as menu" into a new PAL project. They will be the "wrong" pixel size and aspect ratio, but Encore may correct the par. I have never tried this. But if you get oddities doing it this way, in the new PAL project, add a PAL menu, edit in photoshop, and copy the button groups and such from the NTSC version of the menu to the PAL menu. That might work.
    What I see in most of these "convert PAL from NTSC" threads is that virtually all NTSC disks play on current PAL equipment. Many users asking your question decide not to convert. that is especially true, because Richard's "export as NTSC" is not as simple as it seems.

  • What is the easiest way to create and manage very big forms?

    I need to create a form that will contain few hundred questions. Could you please give me some advise on what is the easiest way to do that? I mean for example is it easier to create everything in Word (since it is easier to manage) and than create a form based on that?
    My concern is that when I will have a very big form, containing different kinds of questions and with many scripts, managing it during work will be slow and difficult, for example adding a question in the middle of the form which would require moving half of the questions down which could smash the layout etc.
    What is the best practise for that?
    Thanks in advance

    Try using Table and Rows for this kind of forms. These forms will have the same look throught with a question and and answer section..
    In the future if you want to add a new section, you can simply add rows in between..
    Thanks
    Srini

  • So many ways to create a DVD. What is the best?

    Would love a little help here. First, every week I deliver a DVD to the local cable operation. It must have a menu so it parks itself until a timer kicks it on at the correct time. I edit in 720p then downconvert to SD when I create the DVD. To make matters worse, it feeds the system via a composite out. Yuch. With that info out of the way, what is the best way? I do not have DVD SP anymore, but I do have Toast Titanium, iDVD, and Compressor. I have been taking my master ProRes file and dropping it into iDVD with a menu of course. Tried Toast with mixed results. I like exporting right out FCP X to DVD, looks good, but on my home DVD player, it will not play but it will play on my computer and another DVD player. I am afraid to give that DVD to the cable company as it might not play. I have no idea why it will not play on my new household player. Anyway, what are your thoughts on how to creat a simple DVD to give to the cable company?
    Best.
    Tom

    Thomas Whaley wrote:
    … Tried Toast with mixed results. I like exporting right out FCP X to DVD, looks good, but on my home DVD player, it will not play …
    then, something went wrong:
    exactly for your purposes, the Share to DVD feature of FCPX is meant
    no fancy menus, no options, straight forward:
    you can add a graphic as customized background (eg, for a copyright note)
    you can choose btw two 'themes' - black or white
    autostart, or for you: menu first
    and you can burn direct to disk, or create a disk-image first (what do YOU do?)
    the resulting videoDVDs are fully standards-compliant …
    my guess:
    • you're creating a disk-image first (good) and burn that via Finder (wrong)
    • for unknown reasons, your DVDplayer doesn't 'like' your brand of DVD-r - test on a 2nd one/change brand
    • your internal disk-burner is 'dying' - that's how mine indicated its EOL: disks were only playable on that drive,  then no more burn/play only ... months later totally kaputt ....
    concerning 'best way'
    I prefer iDVD as 'most convenient' + its many customizing options (=you don't need)
    keep in mind, the max bitrate/best quality is accomplished in iDVD only with content length <60min
    (content length: add menus play time!)
    pretty sure, a professional could add the last 0.5% to perfection with other tools, such as DVDSP/Compressor
    no hands-on experience concerning 'quality' with Toast …

  • What is the easiest way to create a 3D effect in Motion 3?

    I would like to play around with 3D in Motion 3 I am unclear as how to use this feature. How do I create a simple 3D project?

    Easiest way would probably be to open one of the 3D templates (File > Open Template) and start to break it down. The Help menu includes a PDF that provides a good overview of how 3D works in Motion as well.

  • Using RH10 - what's the easiest way to create and save HTML code as a snippet for later re-use?

    I am using RH10 to maintain and update several WebHelp projects for customer-facing Internet applications. I am noticing inconsistencies in css and html so I would like to create several snippets for later re-use.  My wishlist, so far:  FAQ page with internal bookmarks, product image with table of callouts, and basic page template with corporate header and footer. What's the easiest way to save / export a page that I want to use later as a snippet? Thank you.

    Have you thought about using the Resource Manager?

  • Easiest way to create transitions and fade a music track?

    Hi, now that I'm up and running, I'm wondering what the easiest way is to create TRANSITIONS (I couldn't seem to find them as advertised in "View Movie Properties/options")?
    Also, does anyone know how to FADE OUT an added audio/music track? Is it possible?
    thanks very much,
    Dave P.

    I ALMOST found the answer to my own question at:
    http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/makeeffectmovie.html
    However, it doesn't quite seem to work for me. The qfx file created doesn't seem to be "recognized as a movie file".
    any suggestions???
    Fading a music track, I'm afraid, seems impossible (in this unfortunately not-too-powerful program).
    thanks,
    Dave P.
      Windows XP  

  • What is the easiest way to create and share photo/video gallery or slide show with family via web?

    I am brand new to Lightroom (converted from Aperture) and made the conversation mainly because I thought that Adobe would bring many more options and because Apple has discontinued development of Aperture. Part of the reason I am asking this question is because there is so much information out there on this subject that it is overwhelming and actually is making it difficult to determine the best way to simply arrange my photos/videos into a slideshow and then to publish somewhat of a gallery or slideshow to show family and friends in other states. 
    I do not like publishing things to Facebook/etc.  Too public.  I just want a simple, efficient way to create a gallery with music and have a link I can send to my family (they all live in another state). 
    Any help narrowing this down for me would be greatly appreciated!
    Thanks,
    RJ Chesterton

    an airport extreme base station would do the job, it has several ethernet ports for use by non-wireless devices, allows connecting a usb printer to share, and supports both pc and mac via wireless
    config is via a dedicated set-up utility
    however, you can always connect the printer to the mac or pc and share it that way, so having this support in the base station isn't essential
    a much cheaper unit from netgear etc. (such as the netgear wgr614) would offer the other features, be far more compact, and allow configuration via web browser, which might be a factor if you need to give 'remote support'
    i've got both airport and netgear wireless devices, imho for non-technical users the netgear is simpler than the airport due to the web browser configuration

  • What is the easiest way to create alias email addresses in exchange 2013?

    For example my official domain is [email protected]
    Within my company i want to make it look like certain departments are sending from bicycles.com skateboards.com
    and skooters.com and receive to those addresses even though the emails are really going through the
    [email protected] domain. but it appears to be coming from three other domains.
    appearance is everything. What is the easiest way to accomplish this.
    Step by step with examples if possible. I am not well versed in exchange server 2013 yet.
    Droid Hacker

    In Exchange 2013 you can use the ECP to add additional email addresses to mailboxes. In order for a mailbox to send using an address, that address needs to be set as the reply address. One mailbox cannot send as multiple addresses. Doing that would require
    a mailbox for each address. To set a new primary address on a mailbox log into the ECP and choose mailboxes under the recipients option on the left. Then search for the mailbox you want to add the address to and click the edit symbol. Navigate to the
    Email Address tab on the left. To set a new primary address you will likely need uncheck the box for "Automatically update email addresses based on the email address policy applied to this recipient". Then click the plus button, enter the new address,
    and check the box for "Make this the reply address"
    Before you do this you should ensure that the proper MS records exist for these other domains, and that they are properly configured for mail flow. Once you set this as the reply address for a mailbox, that is the address external users will use for replies.

  • What is the best (easiest) way to create thumbnails?

    From (image) files selected via JFileChooser, what is the best way to create thumbnails so they can be immediately displayed?

    package projects.web;
    import javax.swing.*;
    public class UploadApplet extends JApplet{
         public void displayGUI(){
              AppletGUI createGUI = new AppletGUI(getRootPane());
         public void init(){
              try{
                   SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable(){
                        public void run(){
                             displayGUI();
              } catch (Exception e){
                   e.printStackTrace();
    } // end UploadApplet class
    package projects.web;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.awt.event.*;
    import javax.swing.*;
    import javax.swing.border.*;
    import javax.swing.text.*;
    import java.util.*;
    import java.io.*;
    public class AppletGUI{
         // JButtons
         JButton addButton = new JButton("Add");
         // JPanels
         JPanel containerPanel = new JPanel();
         JPanel optionsPanel = new JPanel();
         JPanel thumbnailPanel = new JPanel();
         // JScrollPane
         JScrollPane thumbnailScroll;
         public AppletGUI(JRootPane topContainer){
              // Add actionListener
              addButton.addActionListener(new ButtonHandler());
              // Set border layout
              containerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
              // Add buttons to target panels
              optionsPanel.add(addButton);
              // Set size and color of thumbnail panel
              thumbnailPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension (600,500));
              thumbnailPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
              thumbnailPanel.setBorder(new LineBorder(Color.black));
              // Add thumbnail panel to scrollpane
              thumbnailScroll = new JScrollPane(thumbnailPanel);
              // Set background color of scrollPane
              thumbnailScroll.setBackground(Color.white);
              // Add subpanels to containerPanel
              containerPanel.add(optionsPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
              containerPanel.add(thumbnailScroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
              // Add containerPanel to rootPane's contentPane
              topContainer.getContentPane().add(containerPanel);
         } // end constructor
         class ButtonHandler implements ActionListener{
              public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                   new FileBrowser();
              } // end actionPerformed method
         } // end inner class ActionHandler
    } // end AppletGUI class
    package projects.web;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.io.*;
    import javax.swing.*;
    import javax.swing.filechooser.*;
    import javax.imageio.*;
    import java.util.*;
    public class FileBrowser{
         JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser();
         int fileChooserOption;
         LinkedList<File> selectedFilesList = new LinkedList<File>();
         LinkedList<String> fileNames = new LinkedList<String>();
         public FileBrowser(){
              fileChooser.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.FILES_ONLY);
              fileChooser.setMultiSelectionEnabled(true);
              fileChooserOption = fileChooser.showOpenDialog(null);
              if (fileChooserOption == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION){
              for (File selectedFile : fileChooser.getSelectedFiles()){
                        selectedFilesList.add(selectedFile);
                        fileNames.add(selectedFile.getName());
              } // end enhanced for loop
              } // end if
         } // end constructor
    } // end class FileBrowser

  • What is the easiest way to create a geo PDF?

    Looking for a way to create a very simple geo pdf from a scanned image file.  Would like to create my own maps for viewing in PFD Maps on my iPhone.

    Contact Sheet II is a Photoshop Plug-in Script writen by xbytor.  He is a much better Photoshop Script writer then me I'm just a hacker.  Contact Sheet is a much more complicate script then mine for is a Photoshop Plug-in with Photoshop action support.  It is also not designed to size all image to the exact same size and aspect ratio if images sizes and aspect ratio differ there will be some variation in images sizes on the contact sheets.  The only labeling it will do is place the file names on the contact sheet.
    My script is simpler therefor easier to change then Contact Sheet II and my Script is designed to make all image unform in size.  My script does not do any labeling but it would be easy to add to a point. My script is also only set up the do spacing the same vertically and horizontally but adding a couple of field to its dialog you could easily separate them but this might not be needed.  The hard part would be the labeling for you may want to rotate the roll paper print so it a wide image rather then tall. In which case the labeling would need be set up up rotated and moved the the side of the image which would be rotated because of the tile aspect ratio set up  you would make tile have a landscape aspect ratio. Portraits would automatically be rotate for best fit, when you rotate the print they will be orientated portrait.  The labeling would need to have at least two options in the dialog,  One to do labeling and one for which way you want the labeling done to the side or below. All image processed must have the same orientation otherwise some will be rotated not all or none. Image can vary in size and aspect ratio.  But all should be landscape or portrait for the script is designed to rotate image for best fit into tile size.

  • What is the easiest way to import my DVD collection in to iTunes 12?

    Hi all,
    I'd be grateful for advice on the best way to import my DVD collection - all legitimately purchased - in to my iTunes collection. I'm currently running iTunes 12 via a 2013 iMac running OS 10.9.4, on a home network including an Apple TV unit. There seems to be a lot of third party software options available, but I'm not sure which offer the best solution or, indeed, if Apple offers the ability to do this via iTunes itself.
    Thanks for your help.
    Rik101

    Hi
    Thanks for that. But do I have to us the external disc, moving it from PC to Mac or is there a better way?. Can you directly connect the systems. I assume wifi is too slow as the size is about 10G
    Chris

Maybe you are looking for