Export Movie Settings

I've been filming lacrosse games and now I want to make DVDs of the 50+ hours of game film I have stored on various hard drives. When I export to make the QT movie I've been setting the options to Compression = H.264, Quality = Best, Frame Rate = 30, Frame reordering = yes, Encoding = Multi-pass and Dimensions = 1280x720. (Sound is not an issue for me.) The files can easily take 15 hours to complete and often error at the end leaving me with nothing. ORG! I have two questions:
1) Since I recorded the game at 24Mbps, I suppose I should be setting my QT to 24 fps, not the 30 I've been using, correct? Or are these two different things?
2) I've noticed that by setting the encoding to "single pass" instead of "multi-pass", the files take only 4 hours and I get fewer errors. What do I give up by going to "single-pass"? I'm wanting the best quality I can get.
Many thanks

You generally don't need multi-pass. In theory, the multi-pass will let iMovie compress better, because it can scout out all the areas which are busy and those which are stable (and can be compressed).
I have not had any luck doing 2-pass with the Apple supplied h.264 codec. However, there is a third party open source h.264 codec that I have been able to do multi-pass (2 pass) on.
In practice, I never use it.
It is interesting that HandBrake also used to provide multi-pass, but in their current version, they are all single pass.

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Hello
I'm creating various movies on iMovie '08 and intend to burn them to DVD using iDVD. Once they are ready to be exported...what options are best to choose (bearing in mind I want to burn these to DVD). Is it best to choose 'Export Movie', or 'Export using QuickTime' ??
What is the best file format and video compression settings to choose? I really want a good quality finish when played back on DVD.
Hope this make sense and you can help!
Regards!

Hi
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If You use miniDV tape material or interlaced material then iMovie'08 or 09 are not the tool at all due to that it trashes every second line.
I would use iMovie 1 to HD 6 or FinalCut Express or Pro.
How to export any good quality from iM08 or 09 is to others to explain.
*BUT on DVD quality*
1. iDVD 08 & 09 has three levels of qualities.
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - BEST
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
2. From
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not selfcontaining, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly eg x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with (Apple) Disk Util tool.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc).
5. Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
8. Don’t burn more than three DVD at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while befor next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JESDeinterlacer3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are plabacked by a Mac - then You need not to care
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Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choise before Pro Quality)
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(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
Yours Bengt W

What's the best settings to Export movie for smaller file sizes?

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There is a confusing list of movie export size options that I need to get your clarification about. Some of the selections seem to be similar.
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While I have a lot of video editing experience with an SD digital camcorder, the Canon HV30 HDV cam is new to me. So I am experimenting. That said, footage that will be shot will end up in a couple of places. Some of it will be passed onto my company's web master for posting to the web in some kind of Flash video format. Other video will be used in Keynote presentations as full screen video clips. Others will be used as source video for creating 4x3 SD clips for PowerPoint on a PC by others. So, the video will be used in different formats. (In what format to shoot is another question, but I have concluded (I hope correctly) that I should just shoot HDV 1080i since it seems to be the easiest to deal with for uploading to iMovie6 HD.)
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