HD workflow FCP to DVD Studio pro without compressor

I have a completed HD project in FCP and I need to get it into DVDSP without using compressor as this ap is not working and hasn't since I purchased The studio.
Can anyone help?

Normally, you can take the exported movie from FCP directly into DVD SP and it will be encoded there. While this method has far less possibilities for adjustment, in your case it also brings another problem with it...
It uses the Compressor engine to do the job.

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  • FCP to DVD Studio Pro exporting help needed - desperatey......

    Hi.
    Please help me if you can.
    I am exporting a Quicktime movie from FCP for DVD Studio Pro 4. I chose the MPEG 4 option in the compression, make it best quality and bounce it. But when I look at the self-contained mov file, every time a person walks across the screen I am getting little lines on the light parts of the screen or a beating or sizzling effect in the dark parts. Basically it looks like everything is "alive" somewhat - objects like curtains seem to sizzle.
    Can someone guide me in the proper choices to make when exporting from FCP to import into DVD Studio Pro? There is not an MPEG-2 or M2V option, and the MPEG compression breaks it down to MPEG-2 or M2v upon import into DVD Studio Pro anyway.
    I guess I don't know how to get the best quality bounce from FCP, in order to have a file that is less that 4G in size. Can someone please advise?
    There are no directions on exporting FOR DVD Studio Pro in the Final Cut books, nor was there a FCP prep covered in the DVD SP books.

    Quick workflow from FCP -> DVDSP:
    In FCP, File Export QuickTime Movie
    Select DVD Studio Pro Markers in the Markers drop-down (leave other settings as is)
    Save QT Movie to your preferred location
    In DVDSP, import your newly-created QT Movie
    (You may want to confirm your encoding settings - both in terms of bit rate and whether
    you're encoding on build or have background coding enabled - prior to this step though)
    Best Quality workflow:
    In FCP, trash the render files for your sequence
    From the Menu, File Export Using Compressor
    Now, in Compressor, select the appropriate preset(s): DVD: Best Quality 90 Minutes - 4:3
    Optional: Delete the AIFF setting completely
    Select the appropriate destination(s)
    Optional: For the Dolby preset, alter Dialog Normalization (under the Audio tab of the Inspector) to -31. In the Preprocessing tab, alter the Compression Preset to None
    Click Submit
    Once the encode is done, import the .m2v and .ac3 (and/or .aiff) files into DVDSP
    It's only fair to tell you that since this produces (pretty much) the best possible quality from Compressor, it may take as much as 5x-10x as long as the 'quick workflow' detailed earlier. (Especially if you've set DVDSP to do a one-pass encode)

  • TS3968 This also affect DVD Studio Pro and compressor.

    This also affect DVD Studio Pro and compressor, that were useless after upgrading to Snowleopard. Prokit 7 solved the problem. How come it doesn't come automatically with software update? Lost two hours on a crashed DVD project and looking for this very simple solution. Love you Apple, but this time you let me down...
    After updating to Snowleopard, FCP comes up with a warning about unsupported enablerfiles during start-up. Prokit 7 didn't solve that problem. Anybody...?

    Right on, Eric.
    I'm a devoted Windows man, but I must say that DVDSP is the best DVD authoring software I've tried so far.
    As far as compressor goes, it depends what program you are exporting from and for what purpose. There are many options in there and I for instance found out that using something like a Photo JPEG compression rather than a DV PAL setting for a project that was all in DVD PAL gave a better output.
    Compressor is a pretty big program and by trying different things out, you can probably find what you need.
    Sounds like there could be a problem with your computer if everything comes out as crappy as you say...?
    Good luck figuring it out or make your mpegs on PC's TMPGEnc. (He-he... )
    4 x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   4.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM

  • Conversion settings from fcp to dvd studio pro?

    i have a seven minute short subject that i need to burn to dvd using dvd studio pro. before i export from fcp, wanted to double check my fcp export settings with anyone who's been there before.
    here's my choices: export with quicktime conversion, under standard video compression settings choose none for compression, select best quality and choose millions of colors. also no compression for audio.
    i've got to burn six of these suckers for festival screeners and require the best possible quality so i'd appreciate someone letting me know if i'm heading the wrong direction. btw... the dvd burn on a file this size without a menu seems pretty straightforward, but if there's a pitfall i'm not seeing please let me know that as well.
    muchas gracias.

    Dear Wolfman51
    From my personal experience, I find it's much more efficient to export using QUICKTIME MOVIE, a dropdown menu will ask you these questions: SETTING, current settings; INCLUDE, audio and video; MARKERS (up to you)
    uncheck MAKE MOVIE SELF-CONTAINED.
    save it where you can find it. It will do a quick export. Open COMPRESSION, drag this file into the COMPRESSION FOLDER, check your settings (MPEG2) and let compressor compress.
    Then drag this MPEG2 into your DVDSP.
    You can skip using compressor, and drag the uncompressed QTIME straight to DVDSP, it will automatically compress. I found DVDSP doesn't compress it cleanly, therefore chose compressor to compress my movies before importing them into DVDSP.
    I hope this helps, I look forward to reading more postings, perhaps I'm going thru too many steps.
    Kchen

  • HD from FCP to DVD Studio Pro...Help!

    Looking for opinions in getting the BEST possible Standard Def DVD from a Final Cut Pro sequence containing heavilly effected HD DVCPro P2 footage.
    My sequences settings are:
    Frame Size: 960 x 720
    Aspect Ratio: HD (960x720)(16x9)
    Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (960x720)
    Editing Timebase: 23.97
    Compressor: DVCPRO HD 720p60
    Video Processing: Rendering in 8 bit YUV
    I of course have Compressor and DVD Studio Pro 4, but have not gone from my HD sequence to SD DVD yet with quality results. I'm not concerned with time just highest possible quality so that it holds up well on HD televisions.

    I just finished a 15-minute HD 1080i project in FCP that used AJA's DVC PRO HD 1080i 29.97 codec. I tried to make a self-contained QT movie and send it to compressor using the settings you suggested. Unfortunately, it came out with a lot of moraying and the detail around subjects eyes were pixelated.
    Is there another setting you would recommend for going from 1080i to a Standard Def DVD?
    thanks.

  • Undesired cropping from FCP to DVD Studio Pro?

    I start with a QT file exported from FCP 6. The settings are 16:9. The problem is the resulting DVD program I create in DVD Studio Pro plays in regular DVD players with the program-image cropped about 5% at the bottom and 5% at the top. I've tried other settings in DVD Studio Pro, such as using 4:3 or 4:3 pan-and-scan but, obviously, I get warped images (smushed horizontally) or cropped images.
    Any ideas where things are going wrong?
    Shanked

    Are you aware of safe area? If not it sounds like you're seeing the effects of overscan. If you watch the dvd on your computer monitor does it still crop the image? If so at what point are you seeing the cropping? ie does the frame look right in the simulator in dvdsp, how about if you look at the file you've exported from fcp?
    You need to post the fcp capture (clip) settings, sequence settings and the method you're using to export from fcp (ie compressor, qt movie, qt conversion) as well as the encoding settings in dvd sp if you're just doing a qt export from fcp.

  • From FCP to DVD Studio Pro

    When I export from FCP then use compressor to create the mpeg2 file for DVD and then burn a DVD in DVD Studio Pro the video is then hot. I don't know if I'm not seeing it right w/my monitors or where the problem is. Would appreciate any trouble shooting techniques or what steps need to happen to get everything correct.

    I am having the same problem I think - See 'Colour/luminance shift from FCP to output DVDSP Problems' which I posted.
    Has anyone an Idea? It seems to me that FCP is not showing the footage correctly. Or its doing something to the gamma which when once outside of you machine ie DVD's it looks Brighter and burnt out.
    Have you tried looking at your footage in Quicktime Player. Then going to the 'Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility' tick box in the prefs and turning that off. Does your footage look 'hot' as you describe? (I assume when you say hot you mean brighter). If it does then whatever that button does I want Compressor to do the same to footage I put through it.
    Hope that makes sense to your problem, I hope you have found an answer or directions I could try...

  • What happened to MPEG2? How to prepare material in FCP for DVD Studio Pro?

    I have made DVDs using DVD Studio Pro before when usig a manual that my teacher had put together. It all worked fine. After preparing my videos on FCP I exported the material "Using Quicktime Conversion" and selected MPEG2. But thats no longer an option! How do I go about burning DVDs now?
    Hope someone have time to answer.

    Either:
    - export to Compressor, select your settings from its options then drag the generated video and audio files into DVDSP
    or
    - export a quicktime file using 'current settings' and drag that directly into DVDSP. DVDSP uses Compressor internally to generate the audio and video files.
    If you decide to let DVDSP do the encoding, you need to read through the manual to find the section where you set the bitrates and output files.
    x

  • Sync Issues and Audio Drop-out from FCP to DVD Studio Pro

    I have edited a piece in FCP 5.1.4 and all audio/video is in perfect sync. I have been using this program for several years with no issues, until now. Upon exporting with compressor and importing into DVD Studio Pro, the audio is out of sync by 15 seconds and after that first 15 seconds there is simply NO audio, period.
    Any ideas? Please send the calvary...tight deadline and the hanging rope is getting shorter and shorter by the minute!
    Thanks

    Could be something got corrupted in DVD SP (preferences). I have had my audio act strangely and playback getting bogged down. Repairing permissions and deleting prefs works for this one for me. Did you do any recent upgrades to the OS or QuickTime?

  • FCP to DVD Studio Pro

    This might be a FCP question but.... I have a movie project that runs a little over 2 hours. How do I compress it down to less than 4.7gb that it will burn in DVD Studio Pro? I tried using Compression and selecting DVD 120 Minutes Best Quality, but when I inserted the MPEG files into the DVD Studio Pro project it was over 5gb. How can I get or choose the gb size of my compression?

    In addition to what David mentioned
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/fasttrackover.php
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/qc.php

  • What's the best compressor setting to export from FCP to DVD Studio Pro?

    I am exporting an 11 minute video from FCP Studio 2 via compressor to go to DVD Studio Pro. It's DV PAL 720 x 576 and I intend the final DVD to be 16:9 so I'll be choosing 16:9 letterbox in DVDStudio Pro.
    As my video is only 11 minutes am I losing quality by selecting Best Quality DVD 90 minutes?
    And is the way I described above the best way to go about it?

    You should try the setting as a start, though there are many tweaks you can do if you do not like the results. One of the biggest tweaks is the frame controls (adds more time but can help.)
    You should send out to a preset for 16:9 (or make your own setting with aspect ratio of 16:9) then flag the track in DVD SP to 16:9 Letterbox
    Some links
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php
    And a quick Compressor (2 but same principles for 3) movie here
    http://dvdstepbystep.com/qc.php

  • Creating BITC DVD with FCP and DVD Studio Pro

    Ok so here's my question:
    I've created a sequence with BITC, and now I want to export it to DVD studio pro so I can burn it to a dvd. I've been exporting as a quicktime movie, at DV PAL Anamorphic res. When I bring it into DVD Studio as an asset, it has to re-encode.
    Can I drop one of these steps - ie. how do I export from FCP so that the resulting file does not need to be re-encoded in DVD studio.
    I'm sure this is really very simple, but it's going to help me a lot - I have several (10-15) hours of footage to do this with. Thanks in advance...

    export the file as a QT not self-contained use current settings
    luanch Compressor, drag and drop the QT file on to the window then encode to get
    M2V video and AC3 sound file
    import those into DVDSP

  • Exporting FCP for DVD Studio Pro

    I have finished my movie in FCP and now want to export to DVD Studio Pro. The movie is 13 min. long. What is the best way to do this? Also I want it to be in widescreen format for HDTV.

    Is the video currently 16:9, or is it 16:9 within a 4:3 sequence? What I do when I make a DVD is just export a Quicktime Movie, and that will be a multi GB file usually and then bring that into DVDSP. DVDSP will do all the encoding as far as what format to go into. BUT, someone will most definitely come on here and tell you to export using compressor and have it do the encoding. EVERYBODY has their own way of doing it, those are just two.
    Good luck,
    -Brian

  • Motion 3, DVD Studio Pro 3, Compressor...fail to display interface

    Macbook Pro C2D, Leopard OS X 10.5.1. All apps were running perfectly before this happened...
    First, all the apps of Final Cut Studio 2 crashed on startup.
    I recall that the last thing I did is trashing the newly installed trail version Aperture.
    After checking the crashing log, I found the problem comes from Prokit.framework. I did a thorough search, the answer is quite clear that the Prokit.framework comes with Aperture 1.5.2 is a PPC version, it replaced the intel version that was in my OS. So the solution is replacing the PPC version back to Prokit for Intel. Finally I found some provided download links of Prokit for Intel. BUT..
    All the Prokit online are extracted with Pacifist from either Tiger OS disc or ProAppRuntime4.0.2.pkg(from apple's website). So they are either version 3.1 or version 4.0.2. After replacing my Prokit.framework with version 4.0.2, all my FCS 2 apps except Final Cut Pro (but Log and Transfer inside FCP 6) stopped crashing but failed to display any interface. But the icons are in the dock.
    So finally I cleaned up all the files related to Final Cut Studio 2 and Prokit.framework and did a fresh reinstallation of FCS 2.
    Same thing! No interface at all.
    At this point, I doubt if the Prokit.framework in Leopard OS disc is different. It's too bad that I'm traveling for a project and my Leopard DVD is not in hand. So I asked a friend using Pacifist to extract Prokit.framework and Browser.framework from his Leopard DVD and sent them over. Now I found that they are indeed different. The one from Leopard is version 4.1. I did a replace again. Now, Motion 3, DVD Studio Pro 3 and Compressor start up, but with black windows and a few images, and the menu bars are really weird. I guess I should install this two framework with Pacifist instead of replacing them with the extracted folders?
    The last resort I guess is to reinstall Leopard? My dilemma if I don't finish my project, I have no access to my OS DVD, but I need to use FCS 2 to finish the project.
    Has anyone run into the same situation? Any enlightenment will be appreciated!

    I have just installed Leopard ans having problems with DDVDSPRO crasshing, can you please expand on how i may install prokit.framework and Browerkit frame work with Pacifist. I am not an expert please bear in mind!!
    many thanks

  • DVD Studio Pro and Compressor suck!

    I usually never do this, come to a forum and trash a software. But I must say that Compressor (especially!) and DVD Studio Pro simply suck. They are nowhere near a professional standard. In fact they are worse than other encoding and authoring softwares which would not even dream of billing themselves as "professional".
    Everytime I encode something there are pops and pixellations. Most of the time in different places. To ensure that a video is encoded properly (and when I say properly I only mean without defects like pixellation etc), I have to encode it anywhere from 5 to 10 times, with the time expense of watching each version to make sure they are clean. Not to mention the extremely poor quality of encoding, even at best settings.
    Artists, musicians, filmmakers - do not even try to use Compressor or DVD Studio Pro for your important projects. Look elsewhere. They will make your hair go white. Apple, shame on you for realeasing such a crappy product!

    Right on, Eric.
    I'm a devoted Windows man, but I must say that DVDSP is the best DVD authoring software I've tried so far.
    As far as compressor goes, it depends what program you are exporting from and for what purpose. There are many options in there and I for instance found out that using something like a Photo JPEG compression rather than a DV PAL setting for a project that was all in DVD PAL gave a better output.
    Compressor is a pretty big program and by trying different things out, you can probably find what you need.
    Sounds like there could be a problem with your computer if everything comes out as crappy as you say...?
    Good luck figuring it out or make your mpegs on PC's TMPGEnc. (He-he... )
    4 x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   4.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM

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