Final cut to idvd

does anyone know if it is possible to send a fce project in to idvd so i can show my work in best quality? if so is it straight forward or is it complecated?

QuickTime Movie exports what's in the sequence in its current format. There is no such thing as high quality or low quality. There's only the quality that it is.

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  • Final cut to idvd, burning for tv EMERGENCY!!!

    We have a last minute emergency deadline to burn a dvd that will play on a tv that we just can't get around. Trying to make a dvd using final cut pro hd, idvd 5.0.1. We're exporting as a quicktime conversion using h.264 for best performance. We've also tried exporting as a quicktime movie for dvdstudio pro version 1.5 and it comes up as an error of file type in dvdstudio pro.
    When it plays back it starts getting all pixelated toward the middle of the film and then it even shifts to a letterboxed look from full screen about 1/2 way in. HELP! thanks so much. we have minutes left and have been working on it all week.

    i did 2 small projects in iDVD, was dissapointed, did some searching and found a "general consensus" that iDVD is not up to par with professional dvd creation programs.
    regarding mpeg2 ... the original poster mentioned dvdsp version 1.5, this is actually the program i "learned" dvd creation on (version 1), and was instructed to use mpeg2 only. (m2v file extension)
    but, since this is only a recollection of something ancient, i could be wrong.
    sorry for confusing someone if i am.

  • Not Final Cut to IDVD but IDVD to Final Cut

    Can I import the intros from IDVD to Final Cut Express? Either HI Def or not. If so, will chapter  buttons transfer?  If not , can I at least import the intros to Final Cut Express. I can't make anything as nice myself in Final Cut Express.

    No. The intros are templates that only exist in iDVD. They get embedded into an iDVD menu.

  • Exporting from Final Cut to iDVD

    I want to exoprt a sequence out of Final Cut Pro. Ultimately it will wind up in iDVD. What export settings will create a best quality quicktime movie for iDVD coming out of Final Cut Pro (FCP 3)?
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    The apple page (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164931) only gives a partial answer. First, if you are making it to watch on TV make sure you use the "title safe" setting in the canvas. You will get two blue boxes. The outer box shows what will appear on your TV screen, and I have found it to be pretty true. I have found that for my videos I need to set the scale to 90% (found under motion on the viewer) to fit the frame. I also put in chapter markers because it lets me jump around as I wish.
    Next, when you go to export, Choose QuickTime movie. At the bottom of the window are three pop-up menus, settings, include, and markers. The last two are easy. Under "include" you want "Audio and Video". Under "markers" choose chapter markers if you made any. Under "setting" you can choose what you want, but I like to go to "custom" because it shows me exactly what all the settings are. For the video setting in the U.S. you want DV/DVCPRO - NTSC.
    As the Apple page says, do not select "Make Movie Self-Contained." If you are going to import it into iDVD a self contained movie is pointless. It also takes much longer to export. A movie that took 35 to 40 minutes to export as a self contained movie took 5 minutes when I unchecked the box. Also, self-contained movies take up a whole lot of space.
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  • Final cut pro idvd chapter markers

    In previous versions of Final Cut Pro (pre 10) I was able to add chapter markers to the timeline so IDVD would recognize them as chapters.   How do I put chapter markers in Final Cut Pro 10?
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    I don't think you can  .  .  .  at least not in FCP X.
    It's all connected with the late Steve Jobs' belief that DVD was already dead and new Mac apps should reflect that.
    Have you noticed how iDVD is no longer produced and the last update was about 5 years ago?

  • Final Cut to iDVD/ 2 problems

    I have a project I created in FCexpress. When I play the movie in Quicktime it looks fine. However when I created the DVD the picture leaves trails anytime there's motion. Also I seem to have lost stereo, I only noticed because it was only playing half of one of the songs on the soundtrack.?!
    What am I doing wrong?

    Hi
    Your question demands mind reading. Sorry not capable.
    Please explain How did You go from FinalCut to iDVD.
    I do:
    • Save as QuickTime.mov (NOT SELFCONTAINED or by QuickTime conversion)
    • This movie icon I just drop into iDVD
    This works very good for me.
    In iDVD I:
    • select Pro Quality encoding
    • under iDVD Preferences I go to advance and select x1 burn speed
    • I only use Verbatim DVD-R disks
    • I have a minimum of 25Gb free space on my internal (start-up) hard disk
    • Never mix .avi, .wmv or .mp3 or other alient file formats in my movies
    only streamingDV (.dv) and audio as .aiff (convert to this if necessary)
    Result: near 100% luck
    Yours Bengt W

  • Final Cut Pro & iDVD

    Is it possible to import & then edit footage captured from the camera to a DVD in iDVD?

    iDVD takes finished movie files and encodes them to a DVD.
    It is not an editor of video.

  • Problem with picture in burned DVD from Final Cut Express quicktime file

    I use Final Cut Express HD to edit. On more than one occasion, I have exported a movie using quicktime conversion and then used iDVD to burn it to a DVD. Every time I do this, the DVD's picture is shaky, especially when there is fast motion. I have tried burning with both the best performance and best quality settings in iDVD and it doesn't make a difference. The same problem occured when I tried to use a friend's computer to do the same thing. We both have the new 20" iMacs. I am not sure if it is Final Cut or iDVD that is the problem, but quicktime files that are not from Final Cut Express are not a problem. I have a feeling it is a setting somewhere that needs to be changed. Thanks!

    Greetings.
    I've personally never used iDVD for any sort of DVD authoring, but the symptoms that you're describing are giving me the impression that there may be an issue with the MPEG 2 encode. Again, I don't know iDVD so you might be better off asking this question in the iDVD forum.

  • Exporting final cut video into DVD.

    Hi I'm exporting video from final cut into IDVD but having problems as every video is pixelated, i need help in telling me which is are the best formats and settings to set it to, we are mostly doing wedding videos, and we want the quality of the dvd to be good in a tv and on my 30'' apple screen, any help is much appreciated, this forum is great...thank you all...
    Message was edited by: Bphoto

    Use *Export/Quicktime Movie* (not Export/Using Quicktime Conversion): then you can select whether to Make Movie Self-Contained or not. Quality is the same, but if movie is self-contained you can move it to another Mac for burning; on the other hand it takes more time and disk space.
    The resulting .mov file may be imported into iDVD, which will take care to compress it to MPEG2 before burning.
    Note that this workflow is good for creating DVDs with iDVD. But the resulting DVD is best watched on a real (interlaced) TV, not on a (progressive) Mac/PC monitor.
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  • Burning a video from Final Cut Pro using iDVD

    When I export and save my video from Final Cut Pro to a folder (export->Using Quick Time Conversion). When I do that there are several different videos that are saved in my folder (ie-Kelly Michelle; Kelly Michelle-av1; Kelly Michelle-av2; Kelly Michelle-av3; Kelly Michelle-av4; Kelly Michelle-av5).
    iDVD is the program I need to use, I do not have any other programs. Therefore, I import the file to iDVD and once everything is ready in iDVD I try to burn the dvd. However, in the last stages of burning a window pops up and says that "an error was found during the burning process". It does not tell me what kind of an error it is. Does anyone have any advice or a step by step process that I need to do in order to burn my dvd successfully.

    The simplest way to prepare a video for iDVD is to *Export/Quicktime Movie* (NOT Using Quicktime Conversion), select Current Settings, Audio and Video and, depending on your needs, other 2 options:
    o- +Make Movie Self-Contained+ is preferred to have an independent movie (you can move the exported file, you can continue editing your FCP project before burning the exported version, etc.) but requires more disk space and more time for exporting.
    o- +Chapter Markers+ (NOT All Chapters) must be selected if you created Chapter Markers in FCP (markers in the timeline, not the clip, and clicked the Add Chapter Marker button in the marker dialog).
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  • I export from final cut pro 7 to idvd everything comes out fuzzy on the dvd

    I film using a canon fs10. I edit in final cut pro 7, then export to quicktime format, then I burn the dvd using idvd. But the final product always comes out blurry and fuzzy. I can't see what I am doing wrong. Is it because I am not filming in HD?

    Using iMovie, for one, is capturing your files to a codec other than one FCP wants to work with. You would be better off dragging and dropping the files from the camera to a folder on an external drive and converting the footage with MPEG Streamclip to whatever codec you want to work in.
    Using iDVD to compress and author the dvd takes away any control you have over the compression settings for the project.
    You'd be well off getting a FCP training book from someplace like Peachpit Press, or a training dvd from someone here or out there who produces them.

  • 16:9 Export trick from Final Cut Pro to iDVD

    If this is posted, I have not seen it. I have spent years trying to get a decent photo quality video on my widescreen tv without peoples faces looking like 4 pixel blocks. I think I have found a pretty decent result.
    This is for Photo Slide shows only. (If you are going to mix widescreen video with photos, you must have the video in the timeline before you change the sequence to Anamorphic.)
    Create my widescreen project in Final Cut Pro
    (Photos have already been custom cropped (16x9) and reduced to 960 px in height before importing. iPhoto does this easily)
    Sequence settings in FCP: Use the default settings just check anamorphic. Also, best compressor for photos seems to be DVCPRO.
    When project is ready to export, Export to Quicktime Movie
    Setting: Custom (the Sequence Editor pops up)
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    If you have a better way to do this, or can get better quality than this achieves, I would be interested to know.
    Profe

    Hey Mish.
    I use 960 px because it is double the minimum 480. That allows me to use zoom animation or crop further without losing quality. I guess I would not have to go as high as 960 but its a number easy to remember.
    As for your questions about my methods. I am one of those Final Cut Users that really does not understand how things work. I am just good at using it to create my movies. So what you say is Greek to me. Also, for some reason, I do not have Compressor application that so many people talk about in the forums. I just got so fed up with the crappy result I got with just exporting with the same settings as the sequence. The result was pitiful. If you think of a better result using different sequence or export settings, I'll try it.
    I do a Highlights DVD project once a year. It's about 2 hours long (photos and video) and this method has given me the best ever result. It's my last year doing it so I don't want to invest in any software. My buddy would also tell me to use DVDSP and I've used it a couple of times but there is so much to it that I always forget what to do. So I have to "play nice" with iDVD
    Profe

  • 16:9 movie exported from Final Cut Pro X showing up as 4:3 movie in iDVD

    I have exported a movie from Final Cut Pro X in 16:9 and when I open it in iDVD (also in 16:9 mode) it shows up as a 4:3 video.

    SD video?
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  • Final Cut Pro X to iDVD

    Is there a way to export video from final cut so that iDVD won't render it for the second time. Because it is very inconvenient to wait an hour and a half for final cut to render a video and than one more hour for iDVD to rerender it.
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    ok. Than is there a way to export video from final cut in the most quick way?

  • IMovie to iDVD or Final Cut Pro to DVD studio pro "Better output"

    I recorded some family videos onto a computer with a WinTV pci board.
    Converted the MPEG2 to DV/DVCPro NTSC on my Mac with MPEG stremeclip.
    Used quicktime to divide the tapes/clips where we had switched recordings.
    Now i was going to use final cut pro but i am starting to like imovie 09.
    I want to take the clips and add simple fades mostly cross dissolve fade to black and just nothing something not noticeable. Then once I have combined the events reasonably. I want to put them onto DVD.
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    If you need me to elaborate ill try harder.
    So should I use Final Cut Pro then have DVD studio make the DVDs Or iMovie 09 and iDVD 09. Which would have the best looking output.
    Oh by the way how can i remove the static feedback from the recordings I don't care which application i need tell me which one.
    If someone needs an example of the main sound i don't want ill post one.
    Note: I will be posting this in the Final Cut Pro forms as well.

    Since you have both, you should run both and see if you see a difference.
    I would expect that a $1,400 product would outperform a $20 product (= 1/4 of iLife).
    But the question is, How much better? and is it worth the extra effort to you? Only you can decide that.
    Another option for you to consider is you can edit in iMovie and export your project to Final Cut Pro in XML. Might be the best of both worlds.
    Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

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