Help getting HD footage to SD DVD

I have 1080p footage in pro res 422 (LT) and I am trying to find the best workflow for the best quality output to SD DVD.
Here is what I have been doing:
Once my sequence is finalized I export (command + e) to a QT movie, as a self contained movie. Close FCP.
Then I drag this file into Compressor. Load the MPEG-2 Best quality 90 minute setting. Take this file into DVD studio Pro, and that's all.
I know that going from 1920x1080 to SD there will be quality loss, but are there any suggestions that might help me get a little more boost??
Thanks!!

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[You can skip this paragraph if you don't need the backstory.]
So, for several weeks I've been trying to get some audio off of a DVD of mine and into a simple mp3 file. A couple days ago I found and followed this guide, and thought I had succeeded. But after a while I realized that the file I got does not play nice with my handheld mp3 player, or mpd, or mplayer, or anything whatsoever that is not gstreamer-based. MPD goes especially berserk - after playing the file, it can no longer play anything else until I reboot (yes reboot - restarting mpd doesn't fix anything). I should also mention that I'm aware that the guide is not 100% correct; I followed the advice and corrections of some commentors there too.
Anyways, I guess I need to ask for help with this. How would you go about getting audio off of a DVD?
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I usually use the following command to rip a music dvd to wav:
OUTPUTDIR="/Some/Rip/Dir"
TITLE=2
FIRST_CHAPTER=1
LAST_CHAPTER=13
CHAPTER=$FIRST_CHAPTER
AUDIO_ID=128
echo "Ripping Audio..."
while [ $CHAPTER -le $LAST_CHAPTER ]; do
let NO=$CHAPTER
mplayer -dvd-device /dev/dvd1 dvd://$TITLE -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:waveheader:file=$OUTPUTDIR/track$NO.wav -af lavcresample=44100 -aid $AUDIO_ID -chapter $CHAPTER-$CHAPTER
let CHAPTER=CHAPTER+1
done
Resampling to 44100 is important since most mp3 players cannot handle 48000.
Then I have another little script that converts it to flac, sets the correct tags, and finally converts the flac to oggs as well..
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you have to solve two problems:
never ever put miniDVDs into slot-in drives (as in iMacs or laptops) => buy any external dvd-drive..
second, conversion of (finalized) DVDs:
copy/paste:
for using the iLife vers. ≤6 apps, you have to convert'em first, in recommended order, choose one of the following tools/workarounds:
DVDxDV (free trial, 25$, Pro: 90$)
Apple mpeg2 plugin (19$) + Streamclip (free)
VisualHub (23.32$)
Drop2DV (free, requires installation of ffmpeg parts, google for it...)
Toast 6/7/8/9 allows converting to dv/insert dvd, hit apple-k
connect a miniDV Camcorder with analogue input to a DVD-player and transfer disk to tape/use as converter
old apps:
Cinematize >60$
Mpeg2Works >25$ + Apple plug-in
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/convertdvdstodvs
none of these methods or tools override copy protection/DRM mechanisms.. advice on 'ripping' is a violation of the ToU of this board ..
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Hi Everybody,
I want to make dvd covers for animated movies. I am currently a student and learning CS4 and want to make a DVD cover of Lion King searching for this Artwork in High-Res if any of the designers in this website have them could u just mail them to me it would be a gr8 help. please try getting them pleasssssee mail them to me at [email protected] A quick view here http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/891822f6
I am really sorry if i have posted this in some wrong area.
thanks

How difficult is it for you to do a google image search for large images of this subject?
While you appear to be doing this project for an educational endeavour and can get away with mild copyright abuse as "fair use", you probably should not expect the participants in this forum to 1) work for Disney either as a direct employee or as a contractor and 2) offer their copyrighted work for free.
If you really want to impress a teacher and a future employer, you would use your own art. Why dont you create your own movie concept? Suppose you and your classmate are up for the same employment position. Who do you think will get hired if you show work that is not all your own, while your classmate has produced all of his/her own work?

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Using the latest Premiere Elements trial, with Windows 7.
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Is that something I can do in Premiere Elements? What's the best way to do that?
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2.) that DVD will need to be in the drive, whenever one wishes to work with that material, and this can be an issue for many
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Hey guys,
Heres a question.
I went skydiving. I had someone tape me doing it, and the guys made a DVD for me to take home.
Well I want to do my own magic on it but Im having a hard time.
the dvd plays fine in the dvd player, but thats it. when i open it up it consists of 9 files. 3 files are .vob. now these work in fcp but 1 is just the menu picture, 1 is the first 10 seconds of the video and thats it and the third is just a picture that was used in the menu.
the other 6 firles are . bup .ifo.
now i can see the .vob files in my fcp but the other 2 give me errors. Fcp doesnt recognize it. I downloaded streamclip but even that doesnt read the other 6 files.
is the rest of my video on the ifo or bup files?
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I went skydiving. I had someone tape me doing it, and
the guys made a DVD for me to take home.
Well I want to do my own magic on it but Im having a
hard time.
Try a program called "Hawkeye" http://nitosoft.com/en.html
It will convert DVD video to several different file formats for future editing. I've used it to get to footage off a wedding I produced to send a clip over the web to the client recently since I had finished the project and removed renders and original DV footage off the hard drive.
It will convert to several formats, iPod, FCP, AVI, DV25, DV50, PAL, NTSC, even MPEG 2. It will even take footage from multiple discs and burn a new DVD with an iTunes-like playlist.
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Need help getting ipod/phone videos onto a DVD that will play in my dvd player

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First you need to get them onto your Mac. Use image capture and download them to a folder on the Desktop. Next, you need a video DVD authoring program. IMO iDVD is the best.
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If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
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IMPORTANT: iDVD is not concerned with the size of the media files in regards to what the iDVD disk can hold. All that's important is the total playing time of all of the movie files including the menus. A single layer DVD disc can hold up to 120 minutes of playing time. A double layered disk 240 minutes. IMO it's best to go with multiple single layered disks.
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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.

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I will be getting some footage from someone's wedding in DVD format. They would like me to edit it. I am not sure in what format those footage would be in but I am pretty sure that it would be in mpeg format (in the \Video_TS folders). If that's the case, will it be possible to retrieve the mpeg so that it could be edited in FCP?
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I just purchased a Canon Vixia HF200. I have done some initial filming to test out making a quick movie. I noticed that when I watch the footage on my HD TV (from the camera), it looks great. But when I import it into Premiere Elements 8 and render it, the footage is not so good. I am rather new to this so I have a few quesitons.
I assume since I filmed it in HD, in order to get that HD quality I have to burn it to a blue ray? (I dont have one) or can I get HD quality on a DVD in another fashion? Do I need a special HD driver to burn HD footage?
I was reading the forums and saw that you can export the footage to various formats using presests. But how do I determine what the footage was filmed in. I check the property's of the clip I filmed and I dont see what it indicates the type of footage?
Anoter post I read talked about taking HD content and downgrading it to SD content but again it talks about various presets based on the type of footage I shot but I dont know how to determine that after the fact.
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llcox400w
About your Organizer question
If you are in the Elements Organizer
a. right click the thumbnail, and click on Update Thumbnail (Make sure the "Details" is checked in that area.
b. right click the thumbnail and select Properties.
If you are in the Premiere Elements Organizer Window
a. right click the thumbnail, and click on Update (Make sure the "Details" is checked in that area.
After you bring you media to the Timeline
a. go to Project View, right click the video file there, and select Properties from the list that opens
It might be to your advantage to bring your video into a project prel Organizer first so that it gets in the Elements Organizer that way. Try that first and we can modify the plan afterwards.
Your "How do I tell what type of video I shot...." question suggests that you are jumping into these programs/equipment without doing your homework. I will grant you that the Canon User Manual Start Up section does leave much to be desired, but you need to take time to dig into that manual or question Canon about it's product.
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=SupportDetailTabAct&f categoryid=269&modelid=17994#DownloadDetailAct
I went online to the Canon web site and went on a hunt through that manual. Apparently, your camcorder has five modes:
MXP and FXP mode for 1920 x 1080 (which would be considered Full AVCHD and be characterized by square pixels)
and
XP, SP, and LP mode for 1440 x 1080 (which would be consider non Full AVCHD and be characterized by HD anamorphic which stretches the video 16:9 for display after encoding).
The above is must know information, so please read that user manual to take full advantage of your very powerful camcorder.
You ask again about getting the "best quality from my nice HD camera". And again I refer you to my post #15 in the link that I cited previously. That gives detailed details on how to take advantage of your Full AVCHD either putting your AVCHD on a DVD disc in Blu-Ray format or burning the AVCHD Timeline to Blu-Ray disc in Blu-Ray format. There is a lot to read and learn and then decide what you want to do and how you want to view it.
Consider the following plan to get you into this type of creative project:
1. Do your homework with regard to your Canon camcorder, Premiere Elements 8
2. With your camcorder, record a 1 to 2 minute AVCHD clip, using the Full AVCHD setting of MXP or FXP.
3. Open Premiere Elements 8 and set the project preset (new project dialog) to NTSC AVCHD Full HD1080i30.
4. Bring your AVCHD clip from its save location on your computer hard drive into Premiere Elements 8 via its Get Media/Files & Folders.
5. Drag the AVCHD clip from the Media Area to the Timeline Video Track 1/Audio Track 1.
6. This time we are going to bypass Create Menus and go directly to Share/Disc/Disc and create a DVD-VIDEO which you can play with your DVD player. Put your DVD-R disc in your DVD burner drive tray. Setup the burn area
a. put a check mark next to Fit Contents to Available Space
b. select the preset NTSC Widescreen Dolby DVD.
c. hit burn
DVD-VIDEO has a standardized format, so your video will end up as 720 x 480 with a 16:9 flag to stretch the video on display after encoding.
Let us see what that looks like.
When you get beyond this very mini test run, you will soon discover that editing AVCHD in Premiere Elements is very resource consuming and needy. Then computer resources and optimization will probably become an issue. Take a look at the recent thread of cyber and how he dealt with that issue.
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Without losing ANY quality? Sorry, quality was lost when you encoded for DVD. More quality will be lost when you rip the footage off the DVD, and more lost again when you encode again for DVD.
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Purchased Installer disc here.
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