HDV, Exporting, & Burning...

I noticed after exporting a quicktime movie from Final Cut Pro 6, ( without check marking the "make movie self contained), that the movie files are not deinterlaced. I would like to burn these files onto a dvd using iDVD but am wondering if they will still be interlaced once burned or if I need to compress them down and deinterlace. Suggestions? I guess ultimately, what I'd like to know is, what are the best compression settings I should use to import and burn a DVD using HDV footage...
I'm running iDVD 6 by the way.

If your final output is to DVD to be shown on a TV, having interlaced video is normal. Is there a specific reason you want it de-interlaced? That's useful when displaying on a browser viewed on your computer. But if the video is viewed on TV, you want interlaced video. De-interlacing it will actually be counter productive.

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Near lossless HDV export?

Does CS3 have settings for near lossless HDV export - for those segments of the timeline where the video is unchanged? For example, let's say I have four HDV mpeg2 clips. The first two are clips that butt up against each other: no transitions, no effects. Clip 2 cross-dissolves into clip 3. Clip 4 has effects. In near lossless, I would imagine that for clips 1 and 2, CS3 would copy the frames (GOPs?) with no data change (instead of rerendering) up until the first dissolve. At the beginning of the dissolve CS3 would render and then, after the dissolve, go back to laying down an exact copy of the part of the mpeg on the timeline that was unchanged. For clip 4, CS3 would have to completely rerender.
Is this a nutty question? Or is there a setting to tell CS3: just copy the mpeg2 HDV video exactly - when possible?
Thanks in advance!

The question is not nutty but uninformed. Datawise there is no such thing as a single frame in native HDV. You should know that HDV is a compressed format which combines information over multiple frames. In other words a group of frames are compressed together and the processor decompresses them into separate frames when you watch the video. However, when you render, the processor re-combines multiple frames. Therefore you can not render on the frame.
The only way to render on the frame is to use a codec which decompresses the native formet once and for all into single frames. From there on you can go down many generations with minimum loss.
Use the award winning Cineform codec, either Aspect or Prospect (Aspect works perfectly for me).

Can I export (burn) more than one slide show to the same DVD

Can I export (burn) more than one slide show I created in iPhoto to the same DVD, and if yes, how?

Yes. If you're using iDVD export the slideshow out of iPhoto at 480p size and drag it into an open iDVD menu window, being careful to avoid any drop zones. iDVD can handle up to 120 minutes of playing time (movies plus menus) on a single layer DVD disk.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

HDV export compression encoder, settings to burn 16:9 DVD-Rs

What export encoder and settings should I use to simply
burn SD 16:9 DVD-Rs from my Sony HDV 1080i 55 min. FCP HDV sequences in DVD Studio Pro?

Take a look at your preferences options.
You can set encoding rates there.
I really don't know what you are asking about shortcuts to burning.
My suggestion is to read through the manual, and do the tutorials, and then get Martin Sitter's Visual QuickStart book, and memorize it.
Visit here as well.
No shortcuts in creating DVDs. Part art and part science.

HDV export to H.264 jittery within Media Encoder

I'm rendering out a 50 minute documentary shot and edited in HDV 60i. I did it within Premeire Pro CS4 using Adobe Media Encoder CS4. First I exported it as a Quicktime H.264 1920x1080 29.97 progressive video. The video looks PERFECT, and is 31GB.
Trying to get the video file to less than 4.7 gb to burn onto a dvd as a image file, I then exported both the PP timeline and the QT H.264 file in Meda Encoder to the MP4 H.264 1920x1080 29.97 progressive and it came out to 4.5 GB. The image quality looks good, but scences that have a lot of movement the video is noticably jittery. The reason I want this encode to work is because I would like to be able to burn the HD image file to DVD to distribute along with the regular SD DVD. Does anybody know why it's jittery? Is there a setting I have to change? Is there another Codec someone could recomend to get me under 4.7 HD while keeping the full HD quality?
Funny thing is if I play the jittery MP4 H.264 though my Western Digital HD player (plays 1080 movies off a portable usb hard drive to a television monitor up to 1080p via HDMI cable) it plays perfect, no jitters. But if I burn the same file to dvd and open on another computer (after copy/paste to hard drive) it is jittery.
Thanks for the help!!

Ryan,
Please submit a bug report here:
http://adobe.ly/ReportBug
I agree with you that the error message should be more helpful, and I consider the fact that the existing error message is misleading to be a bug.

HDV Export Resolution

Hello!
I know that with HDV camcorders, I can record full 1080 and all that, but when I import it into iMovie and put it through iDVD, will that HD quality stay the same? Won't it be converted to MPEG-2, which would downgrade the quality to SD and make the whole HD thing useless? Or will it be converted to SD, bt still look better than regular DV camcorders?
Thanks!

I haven't got much to add to mish's reply, except some opinions;
"..Won't it be converted to MPEG-2, which would downgrade the quality to SD and make the whole HD thing useless?.." ..Yes, pretty much. Unless, as mish says, you use Apple's (..rather expensive..) DVD Studio Pro, which can burn hi-def video onto a normal DVD ..but that kind of DVD can only be replayed on a Mac, and not on a normal standalone DVD player.
"..will it be converted to SD, bt still look better than regular DV camcorders?.." ..I don't think it does look better than regular DV. I think it looks worse.
So HDV looks terrific when played from the camera into a suitable HD TV, and it looks terrific after importing into your Mac, and played on an Apple Cinema Display, or other DVI-connected big screen. But after editing it in iMovie HD 6, your options are rather limited:
(a) Play it on a big screen connected to your Mac,
(b) Save it onto a hi-def DVD burned with DVD Studio Pro,
(c) Maybe 'Toast', or another application, will burn it as hi-def onto an external HD or Blu-Ray hi-def burner, for playing on a standalone HD or Blu-Ray player (..but d'you know anyone with one of those?..)
(d) Export the edited hi-def movie back to your camcorder - if the camcorder has a facility to accept it from iMovie - and connect the camcorder to an HD TV to play the edited tape.
HDV is wonderful for shooting with ..but the other end of the business - showing the edited hi-def movie - isn't quite properly in place yet..

HDV Export Distortion

When I export an HDV sequence, the resulting quicktime file plays well except for a couple places where I get major distortion in one frame. It seems like this occurs at places in the video where there is a lot of moving images and brighter colors. If I play over the spot enough time it eventually goes away (until I close and reopen the file). The problem is that this distortion does not go away when I burn to DVD. Any thoughts on how I might fix this?
Here is a screenshot I was able to luckily capture right on one of the defective frame as the video was playing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27106722@N00/2514092296/
Jared

CalDigit FireWire VR with plenty of free space. I'm going to try to export to my internal and see what happens. Thanks for the idea.
O wait, do you think its more of an issue concerning the source of the captured video, rather than the destination of the exported video? Because I can export to my internal but if the issue is the captured video on my external then that doesnt do me any good. Thoughts?
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2 hr. HDV to burn to a DVD-R

I have 2 hr. HDV community play shot & edited in iMovie HD 6.0.4. What steps should I use to export and burn to a DVD-R? I have iDVD 7.1.2 and Toast 11.

first, choose share/export via Quicktime then choose your quality, size of video, compression (I use h.264), and sound quality, then let it run. You could try export as movie, too. Then, fire up iDVD, choose your theme and clip and burn. If the project seems too large, Choose "High" quality rather than Professional or Best Performance.
I dunno why, but choosing the latter seems to give you the "Project too full" message
and then burn
Dunno what else to say
John B

HDV exported from FCP 7 into iDVD has red/green moire pattern?

Yesterday I was testing some native HDV (1440 x 1080) in FCP 7.
I exported it as a QT Movie as I used to in the good old days but when I imported it into iDVD the image was coverd with a greeny-red moire type pattern.
It wasn't a serious problem as I simply re-exported as ProRes and that cured it.
However, I am curious as to what may have caused it as it never occurred in the dim and distant past.

Thanks for testing and confirming my findings Russ.
I didn't get this problem back in 2008 as native HDV, FCP and iDVD worked OK together . . . at least in that respect.
However, in those days I was using FCP 6 and I wasn't using OS X 10.6.8 or later. So maybe there has been a change in FCP 7 or the OS that has caused the problem.
OK, long answer to Michael as to why I was doing this "test".
Back in 2008 I bought a new iMac and a Canon HV20 HDV camera expecting to see a dramatic improvement in image quality . . . . which I did . . . . on the computer .
I hadn't mastered DVDSP and Compressor and preferred to use my familiar iDVD which did everything I needed.
So I plonked my edited footage in iDVD and burned a standard def DVD.
I was horrified to find that the DVD footage shimmered badly where any straight lines or fine detail appeared but even worse was the appalling judder that occurred with any subject or camera movement.
I spent several weeks investigating and testing, deinterlacing, swopping fields, converting to AIC and ProRes etc. etc. to no avail. (Incidentally if I set my camera to downconvert to DV during capture, the DVDs produced were fine, but I wanted to edit those beautifully detailed HDV images not DV ones).
Finally a suggestion from Tom Wolsky solved the problem . . . . . put the finished edited project in a DV-PAL sequence in FCP and render it.
The result was rock solid images and beatiful smooth motion.
However, the downside was the time it took to render the HDV project to DV which I found unacceptable.
So I gritted my teeth and taught myself to use DVDSP which got rid of the problem of instability but introduced other, admittedly lesser, but well documented problems. But that's another story.
Now we come to the present.
Last year I bought a Panasonic SD800 3 MOS AVCHD camera, edited in FCP X and exported either to AVCHD Discs or standard DVD.
A few weeks ago I was showing a friend how to use iDVD and the only footage available was my AVCHD stuff.
I used it, expecting the same (or even worse) instability as I had found with HDV.
To my pleasant surprise, the resulting DVD was acceptably stable with smooth motion.
So a couple of days ago I started wondering whether HDV in FCP X and iDVD would be OK.
It was, which meant I could go back to iDVD occasionally when I wanted one of its custom canned menus.
Then I wondered what HDV in FCP 7 sent to iDVD would produce.
Hence my recent test!
I bet you wished you had never asked, Michael.

HDV exports have new sound sync problem in Quick Time

Hi
I'm on FCP 5.1.4. Prior to a few weeks ago, I've had no issue with exporting HDV files and playing on QuickTime. Now, regardless of the Quicktime Conversion I use, the exported video lags the sound. I went back to old projects and exported. Same thing. All the clips play fine in FCP. QuickTime is 7.5. I've read elsewhere people have had to downgrade to prior versions of QT. Anyone have a similar problem or have an idea what the root cause might be?
Specs of captured footage (pretty normal)
Capture video: 1440x1080
Copressor: HDV108060i
Video Rate: 29.97
Audeo: 48hz
Hope we can get some help here because I know others have the problem--and like me--are dead in the water on projects.
Thanks,
Phil

Figured out a solution. For those of you who have equipment/software similar to mine, FCP 5.4.1, IMAC G5 and QT 7.5. My project had multiple layered soundtracks. Sending to QT with any kind of compression didn't work. I wanted to ultimately get to an IPOD format. Here's what I did:
Export project as self-contained movie.
Open QT (don't just click on the file - it'll launch FCP).
Open the reference file you just made.
It'll open, but probably stutter because size of raw file; doesn't matter.
Stop QT from playing.
Choose Export; then any file type you want that's smaller.
I chose IPOD.
Works flawlessly.

Photos for Os X: export / burn to dvd +/-

Any chance of adding the ability to DIRECTLY export a selection of photos / album to a blank DVD + / -, iTunes style?

I doubt very much if Apple will even consider that. Why? Because Apple is getting away from CD/DVDs as evidenced by most of their new models not including an optical drive. So we're stuck with exporting the photos to a folder on the Desktop and burning that folder to disk via the Finder.

HDV export preset?

I began my motion project with an HDV 1080i 60 preset.
When it came time to export I exported to a quicktime file using the HDV1080i60 compressor. (1440x1080)
When go into FCP and try and drop the file into an HDV 1080i60 sequence I am forced to render...
How can this be when all settings are equivalent.
I also noticed that there is no HDV preset for export in motion, even with the HDV settings motion is calling the export preset a "customized" DV NTSC movie
Any suggestions on how to get it in to FCP w/o rendering again?

Although I don't use HDV, I use DVDPROHD, I think I can answer your question since they work the same in Motion. FCP needs to render a Motion project regardless of what settings you've picked in Motion - in Motion, the settings are not tied to a specific codec, they're simply width/height/frame rate/etc. Think of a Motion project on the FCP timeline as an uncompressed file with HDV dimensions and frame rate - FCP needs to render the file before it can play in realtime alongside the HDV-compressed material you are editing with.
So, you can either let FCP do the rendering of the uncompressed file to HDV, or you can do it in Motion by exporting to HDV codec, but either way, a render of some kind has to take place, it's just a question of where you do it. The advantage of letting FCP do it is the round-tripping works better since you can go back and edit the Motion file multiple times without re-importing, so that's usually the best way to handle it.
Motion didn't include a DVDPROHD preset, either. Hitting the Options button just temporarily modifies whatever preset is currently shown in the list, which is why it says customized on the DV NTSC export preset after you change it. But that's ok - I made my own, there's a preferences pane in Motion where you can make new export presets. I just copied one of the existing ones, renamed it to DVDPRO HD 720p 30 QT, and set up the codec and other settings how I wanted it. I made that the default and now I get DVCPRO HD movies every time I export, it should work exactly the same for HDV.
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Hdv export wrong format on a .mov file.

i've set up a hdv project and both the easy setup and sequense settings says : hcv 1080i50 1440x1080. But when I export using quicktime conversion with any codec and setup(allmost) I get a.mov file with a streched format.
why is that I ask.
dual 2.5 G5 Mac OS X (10.3.6)
dual 2.5 G5 Mac OS X (10.3.6)

hmmm.. sorry don't get it. Have I overlooked any settings when exporting using conversions? because i'm pretty sure i didn't.. OOOOOHH wait a minut. I think I get it.
blush
I can't use "current size" i need to manually put in the frame size?
Auch.. you have cought me in some pretty silly posts here... thanks though

Quicktime Pro HDV export chunky blocks

Hi, I've edited HDV captured material in FCP and exported full res. Then, in Quicktime I open the .mov. It seems to contain chuncky blocks. When I close and open, the same happens, but not in the same places?
When I export the movie from QT 7.5.4 (25) it also shows these blocks, but they're now permanent. Anyone? I've found a similar discussion at Creative Cow: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/162/868047

Just to follow up, after some more testing.
Here is a screenshot of what I am seeing. http://2ndmileproductions.com/downloads/Picture-1.jpg
The glitches happen on a 1080i file exported from FCP when viewing them in QT. BUT when I scrub back frame by frame using the arrow keys, no glitches. They dissappear, meaning they are not "embedded" in the file. If I view the same file in FCP, no glitches at all.
The screenshot is from taking the 1080i file from FCP and exporting from QT at a 720p. Scrubbing back reveals that the glitches are embedded in the file.
From the screen shot you can see that the glitches are overlaying 2-3 frames from the previous cut. It seems to happen 20-40 frames after the cut.
Playing the file back in VLC reveals that about the same time these glitches appear, the video stutters, but does not glitch.
If I down-convert the HDV file to an MPEG through Compressor, no glitches.
I hope this helps as this problem has been bugging me for a while now.

Messed up HDV exporting in FCP

Hi!
I use FCP 5.1 to capture HDV1080i50 from a Canon XH A1. When I try to export using Quicktime conversion and HDV1080i50 the image gets messed up. I have no idea why, anybody know? If I open the original HDV file in Quicktime and export using the same settings, the exported version is fine..
Thanks for your help!
http://bildr.no/view/102713

What QT conversion are you trying to get to?
Why not try exporting from the timeline to Compressor and making your conversion there.
Good Luck
Z1

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