HELP!!! - Exporting to Quicktime & Burning a DVD

Ok I bet you will all laugh at me for asking this which is probably the most simple thing to do...
I want to Burn a Regular DVD of a movie I have made in Final Cut Pro.
I tried exporting it as a QuickTime Movie
Current Settings
Sound & Video
Self-Contained Movie.
When it finished exporting the File was 24GB in size! (Movie is 1 hr 50mins) and when I played it in QuickTime the quality was the same as the Viewer in Final Cut. i.e very Low quality and grainy... and the subtitles which were done in Final Cut were blocky and Low Resolution...? How do I export to DVD quality? Maybe something I need to adjust with the settings? I shot the footage on regular MinDV tapes (in Standard DV mode) on some pretty decent cameras (Sony Z1U & Sony PD-150) – the footage was in NTSC for some and PAL for the rest.
I just want to Export to DVD quality at the regular NTSC (American Format) to be sent to a TV station. It seem that the Export is not outputting at the highest possible quality? The footage itself was Log and Captured to a LaCie 1TB drive, straight from the tapes. – Don’t know if that has any bearing on this?

devindaf wrote:
I thought the final thing would look better but it looks really bad which is funny because the footage shot looks far better than that when just played back on a camera.
How did you view the tapes played on your camera? Did you connect your camera to a TV and watch it that way?
When you digitized your video, did you do so through firewire? It's a simple question, but I want to be sure.
How did you view the FCP project? Did you only watch the viewer and canvas? Did you know that you could watch your project on a TV by connecting your camera to your computer and to a TV?
If you digitized via firewire, then you have the exact same file on tape as you do on your computer.
If you didn't alter that file in FCP by recompressing it, or color-correcting it, then your self-contained QT export is identical in quality to what's on your tape.
If you have a decent sized monitor (say 20" or higher) and you play a DV/NTSC clip in QT on it, the size of the clip window relative to it's resolution will be fairly small on your monitor. You may want to make the window larger so that you can see it better, but you will be distorting the video and the viewing quality will be poor.
Burning a DVD might be your solution because you plan to go to DVD anyway, but a DVD will re-compress your footage and there WILL be a quality loss at this point. That is normal because it's taking a 24GB file and making a 4GB file. Some info is bound to be lost.
If you want to confirm the actual quality of your edit, connect your camera to your Mac via firewire and make sure the camera is in VTR mode. Connect the camera to the TV just as you would have to view your raw tape.
Open FCP and make sure of the following settings:
Under the View menu make sure the video playback is set to Apple Firewire NTSC and the External video is set to All Frames.
View your edit.
Andy

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Here Tutorials
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/913334
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/845731?tstart=0
-and http://forums.adobe.com/message/3234794
Encore http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-encore-cs4/
A "crash course" http://forums.adobe.com/thread/761834?tstart=0
A Video Primer for Premiere http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498251?tstart=0
Premiere Tutorials http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424009
CS5 Premiere Pro Tutorials http://forums.adobe.com/message/2738611
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And http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/06/how_to_search_for_premiere_pro.html
CS5 Tutorials http://bellunevideo.com/tutlist.php
PPro Wiki http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro_Wiki
Tutorial http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Premiere/1
Tutorial http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?f=21
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Exporting to DVD http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS3E252E59-6BE5-4668-A12E-4ED0348C3FDBa.h tml
And http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSCDE15B03-1236-483f-BBD4-263E77B445B9.ht ml
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Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798?tstart=0
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After Effects Tutorials http://www.videocopilot.net/
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Thanks for your detailed response. A.T. Romano
I think aiming to render on a 64 bit 4GB computer may be the best hope, if I can somehow manage to source one.
I have been saving a number of versions of the project to an external hard drive with 250GBs of free space. I have moved all associated files in premier 11 to the external hard drive and tried to clean the scratch disc of previous timeline renders. I even tried to cut the project in half and do separate smaller renders, but this also failed .
When I attempt to render under the publish tab, no matter what selection I make I recieve an error message (Error Compiling Movie- Unknown Error.'
If I try to burn straight to a DVD or save to a file for burning to DVD the error message reads, 'multiplexing failure' or else 'transcoding error,' in the case of a file render.
My timeline has an orange bar above most of the clips apart from about 2 mins of clips near the start, which have a green bar above them. The clips are all from the same source- a Canon 7D Dslr and are MOV/Quicktime files. Some of the DSLR clips may be larger files as I used a larger aperture setting during filming for the later clips. I have used the cartoon filter over most of the movie clips, except for a handful of full HD clips near the end of the movie and so I was wondering if the cartoon filter was too demanding to render? Other filters and effects have also been used.
I have used filters and effects from premier 11 extensively throughout the project.
The DVD that I was attempting to burn to is a DVD+RW with 120 minutes of video/4.7 GB Data/1-4x cert speed. The space needed to save the movie file is about 400MB but I have several versions saved on the hard drive already.
When the file was smaller (6mins in length approx) I attempted a render and the render bar actually started and reached 1>2 percent with an estimated 2hr render time required for the 10 min. film project. But I cancelled the render as it was just a test. Now it won't render at all and is a much bigger file. I don't know what sort of conclusion to reach other than perhaps I need a more powerful compiuter as previously stated?
I managed to publish a whopping 3 secs full HD to You Tube twice today. I tried to improve on that a number of times and eventually nothing at all was copied over. Renders to Vimeo and Facebook failed to copy anything, but there were no error messages. Interestingly Adobe Prelude was able to ingest a small clip (5 secs) which had been converted to MP 4. But I tried to do this again several times without success.
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My course professor is allowing me more time to produce a DVD so that's good. Unless I can render the current project however, I have to redo the whole thing and there may not be sufficient time for that.
I appreciate your input and support. Getting a second opinion is valid and reassuring. If you have any other advice based on my comments, that would be appreciated.
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