IDVD Quality Issues

Hello, I have been using IDVD to finalize and burn my Final Cut Pro and Adobe projects for a while now I have recently run into a problem I had not noticed before. I created a 9 min and 4 second video project using Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5. I exported as a Quicktime file, resolution 1920x1280. I have done this numerous times before, but usually around 5 minute long videos. With other projects I have noticed a quality drop when burning, but not this specific problem I am currently having. When the project is exported from Adobe, I make sure to encode at the highest render quality. When it is finished exporting, it is about a 1.86gb file. When I import the project into IDVD, it automatically compresses it to about 376MB using Professional Quality. After burning and playing back on the just burned DVD-R+ 4.7gb disc, I am faced with a distorted image. Whenever the camera moves, there is an etchiness to film, one that makes it look as if it has not been rendered correctly. It is definitely a lower quailty aswell, which is expected, but with this project it is unbearable. So to make this short and sweet, I am positive the problem is with IDVD, specifically when it compresses. So I am wondering if there is an option to stop IDVD from compressing at all to ensure maximum quality or if i would be better off learning to use DVD Studio Pro or Creating my own menu sequences with Adobe and usinge Adobe Encore for my burning. Thank You in advance for any help at all!

Hi
.mov files - is no file format or video codec - it is a Container and can hold material iDVD can use or Not.
Open it with QuickTime Player and then open Inspector and read - Video format/codec: nnnnnnnn
What does it read ?
Yours Bengt W

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and Last, I created a slideshow, from an event - I cut out A LOT of pics when I made the slideshow - is there anyway I could just import the slideshow to iMovie? rather than going through all of the photos again cutting out what I don't need? The slideshow is not in the media window in iMovie - it looks like you really can't do much once a slideshow is created.
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Message was edited by: Michael Clancy

iDVD uses images in the 4:3 size ratio so as long as your images are in that ratio you don't need to do any cropping.
If played on a widescreen TV many DVD players have the capability to present the images at different display options, like Full, Zoom, 4:3, etc. Those decisions are at the viewer's discretion. If you create a 4:3 IDVD project it will play with blank screen at either edge by default.
You can crop your photos to 16:9 before creating your slideshow so the widescreen option can be used in iDVD. Then you will get a full screen slideshow on all the newer widescreen format TVs. Often cropping to the 16:9 ratio loses some important part of the photo but that would be under your control.
I've had better final image quality when I built the slideshow in iDVD from stills rather than in iPhoto and exporting to iDVD as a QT file. There are downsides to this method, i.e. only one transition per slideshow, no Ken Burns effect. However, I've found that creating playlists for the music to be easier in iDVD.
OT

Quality issues with IDVD solved

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RE. Best looking IDVD playback.
May this help all those stuggling with quality issues with perfect looking Qtime files encoded by IDVD coming out looking crap.
Simply this: instead of exporting your media from your FCP timeline in H.264 - instead select Motion JPEG A. This is found under your setting options in your Qtime movie/settings export window.
Your files will export much, much faster than Apple's default setting of H.264, you will also get very smooth playback wihtout any jaggies or nasty artifacts. Files are a larger but, hey, it just looks great.
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Good info. I'll keep this in mind next time.

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I have iMovie set to the highest quality, iDVD set to professional quality, rendered all the pictures in iMovie before exporting, and have the frame rate at 30 fps.
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"rendered all the pictures in iMovie before exporting"
That's likely the problem. iMovie does a terrible job of rendering. So, if you use the share function, ignore the prompt that asks if you want iMovie to render, and instead chose to proceed anyway without rendering. iDVD then will render your photos and it does a much better job of it.
Also, the previews in iMovie and iDVD are low res. The burned project should be much sharper.
Rather than using the share function, I find it best to simply save and close the iMovie project, and then drag the iMovie icon (the one with the star on it) into the edge of the window of your iDVD project main menu, being careful not to put into a drop zone. The movie or slideshow will then import right in to iDVD.

Hi apple users, I am in need of your expertise. I have a mov file and mp4 file which I need converted to DVD. However IDVD quality is terrible and wondering if anyone can help!?

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I created project in iMovie then exported it to MP4 and also MOV file at highest definition possible + I added it to iDVD and had a number issues about encoding errors regarding the mp4 file. MOV worked but the quality was terrible.....
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Codecs: H.264, ACC
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Dimensions: 1280 x 720
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First of all, Hunt--thanks for responding!
"First, where are you playing the MPEG-2, that you see that jitter?"
On both a MacBook Pro, an Acer laptop and my Mac Tower. I would love to think that it is a problem with the playback system, and that if I merely send the file off to the duplicator they won't have the same problem. Maybe that is the case...I don't know if I have a choice rather than sending it off to see. But it happens in the same spots, in the same way, on all three of the players so I'm a little reluctant to have faith.
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Of course, but in the case there is no more 'original project.' It is gone like the wind, stolen along with his computer and backups.
I think I am stuck using one of two files as my master: a DVD he burned where I only see the stutter/vibration/jitter once, or the mpeg2 file where I see it three times. Hopefully, the duplication house can rip if off of one of them and not see the jitter. I know that in audio, my personal filed, you can do a lot to enhance already existing sound--EQ, compression, tape saturation emulation software, etc. I guess I'm hoping there is some kind of analog to the video world that address jitter after a source has been printed--if indeed the source has been printed to be jittery.
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