I-Movie to I-DVD compression?

If I have a 5GB I-Movie and want to export to I-DVD, Does I-DVD have a compression that will allow that large of a file to produce a DVD?

Yes!
5GB in iMovie is only about 20 minutes? A DVD can take up to 120 minutes of video.
Once you have transferred your iMovie project to iDVD, iDVD compresses it to the standard DVD format of mpeg2.

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SD DVD Compressions

I have been compressing for like the last six months with Compressor, Compressor 2 and Bit Vice and for the life of me can't get anything that holds up quality wise. The cow has been great in solving problems in the past and have helped to an extent but I have still not burned a DVD that holds up yet. So I figured I'd try this. I am not trying to become a compression master...I am happy just being an editor that understands compression. I'd just like to create a simplistic workflow that allows me to produce nice looking DVD's and not ones that don't look much better than VHS. So here is a common scenario for me. I would like to know the best workflow to create the HIGHEST quality MPEG2 that I can to playback on a DVD. I don't care about file size or length of the compression. I'll be indebted to anyone that can help me work this out.
Current workflow-HDV sequence with HDV captured 1440X1080 ftg mixed in with computer 3D graphics of Animation(1980X1020), Photo-JPEG(1920X1080) and HDV(1440X1080) codecs.
My other 2 most common sequences that my workflow begins in are Blackmagic NTSC-Jpeg(Photo-Jpeg) & DV NTSC. I don't know if you would recommend a different process for these 2 but if so then I would be indebted to know these answers as well. I would hope that the compression would be pretty much the same in these based on what quality level you want.
Here's an example of my how I go and still get bad results. I finish my FCP (HDV, Blackmagic NTSC-Jpeg and DV NTSC)Sequence and then export to Compressor 2. The only thing that ever changes is when I work in an HDV sequence it will not let me export directly from the sequence claiming that I have not selected any media. So I have to take the extra step of exporting as a quicktime movie reference file to bring into compressor 2. I will then select Best Quality 90 minute 4:3 or 16:9 depending on the aspect ratio I need. I then have been assuming that for the highest quality I have been selecting GOP-IP and I have tried both 2-PASS VBR and Constant Bit Rates of anywhere from 7.0 to 8.0 with not much difference in results. I have tried all the GOP settings as well.
FYI - I've have tried dumping out my HDV sequence out to the deck and bringing it back in as a DV clip. I would then compress the 720X480 DV clip without any better results. The best results that I have come to find in all of my testing is bumping the HDV sequence up to uncompressed 8-bit or animation, rendering and then going through compressor or bitvice. BitVice gives me a little better results but nothing to write home about. I'm not opposed to using BitVice but would prefer to stay within the Apple workflow and just export through Compressor unless BitVice is the answer.
I have researched all of the forums and sites to I'm about blue in the face and have tried various things that have helped from many of the members. So thanks to everyone that has helped me or someone else that I have been able to take there suggestion for myself. I am just looking to get over that last hump!
It is not like it is unviewable but that I would like for it to look as good as it does in the sequence in FCP or at least 80-90% close. Right now to us it looks like it takes such a hit that it is like 60% is good as it was in the FCP sequence and only like 10% better than vhs if that:( Is there some hidden secret that I am missing in software compression that could get me over that remaining hump or am I stuck viewing similiar quality to vhs?
Sorry for the long post. Thanks in advance for everything!
Lee
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Hey Lee, looking at what you are doing and how you are doing, let me make some recommendations.
obviously you are able to capture an 8 and 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 YUV NTSC and PAL elements from your internal drive with no problems (since you mentioned Blackmagic's Decklinck card). but you said that you are working with HD material, so assume you have some faster external drives. anyway, bring in the material in the highest quality you can in the above choices the 10-bit would be ideal.
what are your source tapes? i ask this bcz if they are some form of DV format (HDCAM, HDCAM PRO) your material is already compressed 5:1 (not helpful).
ok, you say that your FCP sequences are "Blackmagic NTSC-Jpeg(Photo-Jpeg) & DV NTSC".. WHY? although the file sizes might be atractive, once again, you are implemnting a compression to those files (cascade compression). something in the ballpark of another 5:1 to 15:1.
when you export your sequence from FCP do it with NO compression or in the drop-down options box "compression type = NONE". yes the files will be MUCH larger, but your material will mostly still be in the realm of 5:1 rather than the 10:1 to 20:1 compression (starting to see, even BEFORE you start encoding your how much your RAW "uncompressed" material is compressed).
OK, now you have these HUGE files on your HDD, since you are working with HD and you want to ultimately have a SD DVD, you have do to a down-conversion of the material.
one of the options to do a donw-convert is compressor. (i wouldn't recoomend it though). i would highly recommend do the down-conversion within FCP so once you do your export, your files are in SD resolution already (more than likely DV NTSC 640x480).
anyway, let's say that you already have a SD resolution file, you take that file into compressor (most DVD compression introduces about 40:1 compression) and just select a preset (they are generally pretty good) and see what relults that gives you.
i see that you set your GOP to IP ? a big no no! i hate to feel like i am demeaning you but do you know what GOP means, does or how it works?
having a setting of IP not only gives you larger files, since more whole frame (I) are created, but there is nothing beneficial and the encoding process is SEVERLY hindered since the encoder is not being effectively used.
i would try a setting of a CLOSED GOP @ 15 with a setting of IBBP since this is the MOST effective use of encoding or bit-reduction.
i think i touched most subjects.. wow i am exhausted!
if you have any specific questions as to how or why, let me know and i will answer them as best as i can
Mike

Why does th It is a QuickTime movie from a dvd home recording.

Why does the audio stop after the movie starts? It is a QuickTime movie on a dvd home recording. Also, the video is choppy.

Why does the audio stop after the movie starts? It is a QuickTime movie on a dvd home recording. Also, the video is choppy.
If you are referring to an MOV file stored on a data DVD for playback in the QT (or similar) media player and not a DVD "authored" for commercial DVD device playback, then it sounds like you encoded it incorrectly. Basically DVD devices have a limited data transfer rate and if this rate is lower than the total playback data rate (combined video + audio data rates), then some of the data is not transfered to your computer fast enough for smooth playback in your media player.
I would normally recommend compressing your movie content using the H.264/AAC codecs (most efficient Mac standard codecs) and set the "Optimization" pop-up to the "CD/DVD ROM" setting. This option will "package" the encoded content for playback directly from a DVD player that is compatible with data rate limit you impose for the encode. Another option would be to copy the file from your DVD to your computer drive for playback since hard drive data rate transfer is much greater than that of a DVD player.

Why can't I get my 122min movie on a DVD-DL

Hi everyone. I am new to FCPX, but I was a quite confortable user to iMovie.
As I have to get a 122min movie on a DVD, I am obviously using dual layers.
First, I tried to do it with FCPX itself, using the Share > DVD... menu.
Setting it to Double layers, I was happy to use this function compressing my movie to 7 Go - everything works fine and the time left was in good relation with the job done. Until..
When it gets to 47% the estimated time left grows up to 38 hours or so, and it just either takes 12 hours to get to 52% or the "time left" itself gets even longer !
So I decided to get Compressor and try to work with the right thing... but it just seems to do exactly the same thing.
Is there any way I could be told what's wrong in my process? I've learned and read on so many forums Compressor was the right way to do this.
What are the setup I gotta use?
My movie is a 1080p - HD - 1920x1080 - 23,98p
I am working on a iMac, quadcore, 10.6.8
Thank you for your time

Actually, the only difference between Compressor and FCPX DVD disk authoring capabilities is that Compressor offers you the ability to set chapter markers.
The typical advice one reads on these and other Compresssion-related forums is to take a short section of the source file and test it to determine quality and to verify workflow. Unfortunately, with DL DVD, things are trickier and that approach isn't really possible…we don't know whether we have a successful project until we actually burn it and it plays on DVD players.
A couple of things:
What codec is your movie sequence in? If it's H.264, consider transcoding to Pro Res. FCPX and Compressor both will probably be happier if not given a delivery codec l to down-scale from 1080 to 480, encode to DVD standards and also try to determine a break poiny in one fell swoop.
Also, consider down-scaling the movie to SD 16:9 as one stand-alone job. Then take the SD QuickTime output file and use the DVD share preset as a second stand-alone job. If you do that, use Frame Controls for the down-rez job and set the Resize filter to Better or Best.
Another point: be aware that regardless of whether you use the Compressor or FCPX Share>DVD function, you'll get only a single disk. It's not like DVDSP or iDVD where you can sequentially churn out multiple copies. (You can, of course, make copies of your disk when you have burned one successfully.)
Finally, since you have iMovie>DVD experience, I'm assuming you have iDVD installed. Were it my project, and if I didn't have DVD Studio Pro as an authoring option, I would definitely consider going the iDVD route.
Good luck.
Russ

Watching Movie Burned to DVD on Television

I have recently just started using iMovie and iDVD to capture the video that I am taking of my hockey team that I coach. Each game "tape" is about 45 minutes in length, which comes out to about 10GB on my computer when I import the video. As I understand it iDVD will compress this for me so that it fits on one DVD. What I would like to know is if after I have done this and burned the DVD, when I watch the movie, how large will the resolution be? The reason I ask this is I want to be able to use the DVD to put in a DVD player and show on a television to my team to go over the game in our video sessions. Previously, I have just connected the camcorder to the television and done it that way. However I want to save the game videos for later use and do not want to have to keep a bunch of tapes. Thanks.

I have recently just started using iMovie and iDVD to
capture the video that I am taking of my hockey team
that I coach. Each game "tape" is about 45 minutes
in length, which comes out to about 10GB on my
computer when I import the video. As I understand it
iDVD will compress this for me so that it fits on one
DVD. What I would like to know is if after I have
done this and burned the DVD, when I watch the movie,
how large will the resolution be? The reason I ask
this is I want to be able to use the DVD to put in a
DVD player and show on a television to my team to go
over the game in our video sessions. Previously, I
have just connected the camcorder to the television
and done it that way. However I want to save the
game videos for later use and do not want to have to
keep a bunch of tapes. Thanks.
As you mentioned, iDVD will compress, that is remove certain amount of data per frame, but if you keep your iMovie of each game or practice to less than 60 minutes, the viewing quality of the resulting DVD will be more than sufficient for viewing on TV with a DVD player. The key as far as the DVD itself is concerned is the bit rate, which for the compression involved for a 45 minute video, is about 6 million Bits per second. VHS is (was?) about 2 million bits per second when everything was working. Use Best Performance in iDVD (open iDVD Preferences and look within General) for burning and keep the Themes simple.
The key to the quality in the DVD is the "production" quality that you can achieve during your video taping and for your purposes that may be mainly lighting and color, assuming your video camera is high quality. Having more than one camera recording the game also helps. The idea is to reduce the amount of camera movement as much as possible. Lighting,color and movement(motion) all impact compression process prior to the burn.
As you may know, there is some compression by the video camera to record onto the tape so you are starting with already compressed material.
Although you seem to prefer DVD to tape, tape actually provides greater video detail and color is often better.
Tape is always available for editing, while DVD requires a lot more work to retrieve old material. As long as they are kept in their plastic boxes, tape is more resistant to abuse, such as scratches. And if you are not planning to archive your videos, you can the same tape several times before seeing significant problems during playback. Tape is the preferred medium for archiving.

What is the best way to put a movie on a DVD?

I want to put my movie on a DVD and show it on the TV. What is the best way to do this?

Yes, you can put more than one movie on a DVD, as long as the total length of both together is not over 2hrs for single-layer DVDs.
I know what you mean about it taking so long for the burning....my DVDs are usually just close to 2hrs, so taking 12-14hrs to burn is not unusual for me. I just do it overnight, and it is finished in the morning. I 'save to disc image' first, and then do the burning from Disk Utility.
Trust me, I've tried everything I can think of to be able to.
I am surprised that you cannot get your movies exported back to DV tapes with your camcorder. I looked up its specs, and it shows it has Firewire port, so you should be able to export. I would pursue this further....
Have you tried saving your movies as QuickTime Full-Quality and then importing that into a new iMovie and exporting that? You will need to have more free space to copy the movie, but once you have made the QT movie, you can delete the original one, and you can delete the QT one after the export. Also, it may take a LOOOONNNGGG time for the compression/process necessary to create the QT movie, and somewhat long for the import into iMovie, but I have found that iMovies that would not export to my camcorder in their original form exported easily after I made the QT one.

Burning multiple movies to one DVD

I want to burn 8 short movies to one DVD. Do I have to use a DVD RW or is there a way to burn all 8 to a DVD-R?

You probably only have a single-layer drive so you
will be limited to a maximum playing time of about
120 minutes in Best Quality mode. We recommend
Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R for single-layer discs.
BTW, iDVD compresses everything to mpg-2 so the
playing time of your content in minutes is the
important factor - the size of your original files in
MB doesn't come into play.
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thanks for the tip on type of DVD, but my immediate problem is that when I burn to a DVD, I can only do one movie. I am looking for a way to select all of them vs 1 at a time. I tried the advanced & edit DVD contents but I still have the problem that the program will only burn one movie at a time & then because it is DVD-R, I can't add another. I need to be able to put all 8 on at once (or at least one after another). Is there a way to "combine" them for burning?

How can I burn more than 1 movie to a DVD when there is room on the disc for it. Premiere wants to overwrite once 1 movie is burned to the disc

How can I burn more than 1 movie onto a DVD? Once 1 movie is burned successfully to the disc, I try to burn another movie and Premiere wants to overwrite the first movie. One movie is 1.2 GB, second is 2.3; so there is room on a 4.7 GB DVD-RW.

susang
What you report is what it is.
Each burn to of Timeline content to DVD-VIDEO format on DVD disc results in the disc containing one OpenDVD Folder and one VIDEO_TS Folder.
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Premiere Elements will allow you to write to a disc with content already on it, but only after you give the OK for erasing the disc content before going ahead
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Adding More Than One Movie to a DVD

I am making iDVDs that are just about 15 minutes long. Since the dvd I am using holds up to 4.7 gigabytes, I would like to add more than one movie to a dvd project. How do I do that?

Look in the folder of an iMovie project. Let's say the project is called "My Great Movie"
There should be a small file with the name "My Great Movie.mov" That is the reference movie.
If you open iDVD directly rather than from iMovie and create a new iDVD project, just drag the reference movies onto the iDVD window and it will add the movie to your project.
On the finished DVD, you pick a movie to play it. When that movie finishes, it puts you back to the main menu to pick another.
Does this sound like what you want ?

How do I burn a .mov file to DVD?

I need to burn an MPEG-2 video file saved as .mov to a DVD that will play in a regular DVD player.
I have tried opening iDVD and the selecting 'Create a New Project'. When I have selected a location for the project and the main window opens, I go to File > OneStep DVD from Movie...
My understanding is that when I import a movie file, it will burn it straight to the disc without any further options. It does this, however after a couple of minutes the DVD is ejected blank and iDVD says the burn has completed.
How can I solve this problem or is there another way to burn a .mov file to DVD?
Thanks, Dan

A green screen in an indication that the movie is in a format not supported by iDVD. It should be in one of these formats: DV, high-definition video (HDV), MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-4 SD, MPEG-4 HD, and AVCHD. (From SDMacUser's post in What input file formats does iDVD...: Apple Support Communities). The post has other requirements that need to be met.
SD = standard definition.
Open your movie with QT Player and bring up the Info window for the movie. It will have the format:
Another possible reason is the Energy Saving settings on the Mac. Turn off energy saving and screen saver before starting the save as disk image or burn.
Other possible fixes can be found in this tipic: Green Screen with audio after Burning: Apple Support Communities

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How can I convert my iPhone 5 movies to a DVD to play in DVD players?

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How can I improve quality of image when burning a movie to a DVD

How can I improve quality of image when burning a movie to a DVD?

What resolution are you using? If the DVD is to be playable on an ordinary DVD player, only ordinary TV resolution is supported. You need Blue ray for HD.
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When I try to burn my slideshow.mov to a dvd disc, it will burn but when i put it in the dvd player it says 'disc error'. I have burned it thru iDVD before but forgot how to do it and it won't do it now. The slide show is on my desktop

when I try to burn my slideshow.mov to a dvd disc, it will burn but when i put it in the dvd player it says 'disc error'. I have burned it thru iDVD before but forgot how to do it and it won't do it now. The slide show is on my desktop

Rather than burn directly to disk follow this workflow to help assure the best quality 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.

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You can't burn a DVD like that with iPhoto. You need an authoring application like iDVD or Toast to correctly format the disk.
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I had all my old home video's and super 8 movies converted to DVD's. Since I will move back to Europe I asked the company to convert them to PAl system.

I had all my old home video's and super 8 movies converted to DVD's. Since I will move back to Europe I asked the company to convert them to PAl system. I just got all the DVD's for a lot of money, but I can not play any of them on my MAC book.(I think that is because they were burned on zone 1 dvd's and my lap top works with zone 2.
I wonder how I can make them work on my macbook..? I intended to start editing those movies so I need to be able to play them on my mac. Is there a way to copy them to zone 2 DVD's and or to zone 0 dvd's and where do I get those free zone or zone 1 recordable dvd's?
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
The Apple TV 2 will play all the content in your iTunes library that your Apple TV 1 does. It can no longer sync any of it but can stream it all just as the older model did. Airplay is a different feature that lets you stream from an iPad/iPhone, the Apple TV 2 has Airplay the first didn't.
You can still sort and search content by genre, it still marks content watched and unwatched and mainly still lets you organise much as the Apple TV 1 did, with one exception. It doesn't do nested folders, so the ability to tag a movie as a show (ie James Bond) and have all the associated movies in a James bond folder has gone and it lists all these movies individually.
It has a similar situation with TV shows. It will put all TV shows in a series in a folder as the older one did, but the new one lists each series separately whereas the older model would put all the series in one folder.
Not nesting folders is a bit of a pain with large libraries and whilst I don't like it, it's more or less the only compromise I have to make and of course I get additional features too.

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