IDVD Refuses To Recognize 15:9 NTSC Anamorphic from Final Cut Pro

I read the following article on getting iDVD to recognize an anamorphic 16:9 video from Final Cut Pro:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179
My movie says it is in 16:9 anamorphic in QuickTime Pro, and the window is sized properly, but when I drop the movie into an iDVD project, it comes in 4:3, even though I selected a 16:9 iDVD theme to start with.
Anyone have any ideas as to why iDVD is ignoring my movie's aspect ratio?

I found out that I had to choose "Anamorphic" for the timeline in Final Cut Pro to fix the problem.

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o- +Make Movie Self-Contained+ is preferred to have an independent movie (you can move the exported file, you can continue editing your FCP project before burning the exported version, etc.) but requires more disk space and more time for exporting.
o- +Chapter Markers+ (NOT All Chapters) must be selected if you created Chapter Markers in FCP (markers in the timeline, not the clip, and clicked the Add Chapter Marker button in the marker dialog).
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If this is posted, I have not seen it. I have spent years trying to get a decent photo quality video on my widescreen tv without peoples faces looking like 4 pixel blocks. I think I have found a pretty decent result.
This is for Photo Slide shows only. (If you are going to mix widescreen video with photos, you must have the video in the timeline before you change the sequence to Anamorphic.)
Create my widescreen project in Final Cut Pro
(Photos have already been custom cropped (16x9) and reduced to 960 px in height before importing. iPhoto does this easily)
Sequence settings in FCP: Use the default settings just check anamorphic. Also, best compressor for photos seems to be DVCPRO.
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In the Aspect Ratio drop menu select "HDTV 720p (16:9) This will change the aspect ratio to 1280x720. All other settings should match your sequence settings.
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Change the Height to 480 (the width should automatically change to 853)
Close the movie and save changes.
(This step really does make photos clearer)
iDVD will read this as widescreen and create descent non pixelated SD quality on your Widescreen TV.
If you have a better way to do this, or can get better quality than this achieves, I would be interested to know.
Profe

Hey Mish.
I use 960 px because it is double the minimum 480. That allows me to use zoom animation or crop further without losing quality. I guess I would not have to go as high as 960 but its a number easy to remember.
As for your questions about my methods. I am one of those Final Cut Users that really does not understand how things work. I am just good at using it to create my movies. So what you say is Greek to me. Also, for some reason, I do not have Compressor application that so many people talk about in the forums. I just got so fed up with the crappy result I got with just exporting with the same settings as the sequence. The result was pitiful. If you think of a better result using different sequence or export settings, I'll try it.
I do a Highlights DVD project once a year. It's about 2 hours long (photos and video) and this method has given me the best ever result. It's my last year doing it so I don't want to invest in any software. My buddy would also tell me to use DVDSP and I've used it a couple of times but there is so much to it that I always forget what to do. So I have to "play nice" with iDVD
Profe

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Using iMovie, for one, is capturing your files to a codec other than one FCP wants to work with. You would be better off dragging and dropping the files from the camera to a folder on an external drive and converting the footage with MPEG Streamclip to whatever codec you want to work in.
Using iDVD to compress and author the dvd takes away any control you have over the compression settings for the project.
You'd be well off getting a FCP training book from someplace like Peachpit Press, or a training dvd from someone here or out there who produces them.

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In tests with small Quicktime exported movies from the timeline in Final Cut Pro 4.5 -- meaning NOT making a full, new self-contained QT movie but just a smaller "reference" file -- I was able to burn fine 2 and 5 minute tests.
When I got to a longer (45 min) completed FCP timeline, and tried the same thing (dragging the exported reference file to iDVD), I had problems. Ran it overnight, and in the morning it was still in stage 3, and when I tried to stop it the whole computer crashed.
It takes FOREVER for FCP to export a longer fully self-contained quicktime movie...I am wondering if anyone has any info/advice on whether idvd:
-- has trouble working with these QT 'reference' files when they have to use/
access rendered media in Final Cut pro.
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Well a 45 min movie - to be coded as mpeg2 to a DVD disk takes time.
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How can I tell if the quicktime movie I export from Final Cut Express through Quicktime to IDVD is anamorphic

How can I tell if the quicktime movie I export from Final Cut Express through Quicktime to IDVD is anamorphic

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Anamorphic Setup - Final Cut Studio Training

I inadvertedly posted this in the DVD SP forum. I'd like to move it here where it belongs.
I just got my Final Cut Pro Studio a couple weeks ago, had to finish a project that I was doing in FCE and iDVD, and am now reviewing the tutorial on the Final Cut Studio Training DVD.
One of the first steps is to setup the session to "DV-NTSC Anamorphic". Since I had already blown past that 2 week ago, I did not see it this time, nor could I find the correct menu to make that setting for the tutorial. So I just blew by it; realizing that I'd find out sooner or later what the cost would be.
I found out: When doing the Motion segment and importing the final "TrailerLowerThirds" back into FCP, that part is compressed horizontally with black side bars on the right and left.
3 questions:
How do I make that setting if I've been running FCP already?
What does that do to the project, the clips, anything else?
If I were to make this mistake on one of my projects, how would I recover?
So far I've only been making projects in DV-NTSC 2:3 (I guess that's the right way to say it). Any insights would be appreciated.
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My second question was: "What does that do to the project, the clips, anything else?"
The essential thing to bear in mind is that 4:3 and 16:9 anamorphic projects (in the SD world) have the SAME resolution: 720x480 pixels for NTSC, 720x576 for PAL. Because the resolution is the same, but the apparent frame size is different, it can lead to confustion, and it's easy to get it wrong - especially over there in the US where anamorphic broadcasting of SD material never took off, and thus widescreen sets were never mass market before HD.
(The situation here in Europe is different.).
Have a read of this for clarity: http://www.helerab.fi/widescreen/
The anamoprhic easy setup just tells FCP that you are capturing anamorphic material, and that new sequences should be anamorphic by default. You can override these defaults if necessary, but the easy setup just makes it harder to mess up.
The important thing when going to DVD is to keep the workflow anamorphic all the way through: output anamorphic material from FCP, make sure material is transcoded to mpeg (whether through compressor, iDVD or Quicktime) with anamorphic settings intact; and in your DVD authoring application, make sure projects, menus and tracks are created or flagged as 16:9.
The end result is an anamorphic DVD.
Your DVD player has a menu where you tell it what type of TV it's connected to - whether 4:3 or widescreen (and if it's a 4:3 set, how it should handle widescreen material: either letterboxing it or "cropping" it via pan/scan).
I've started noticing in other posts that some people think that if you have anamorphic material you should set your DVD player to 16:9. This is NOT A GOOD IDEA (unless the DVD player is attached to a widescreen TV, in which case you have it set to 16:9 already!) Just set the DVD player once and leave it alone.
Hope these observations help get you started. If you understand what's going on with anamorphic media, you're less likely to make mistakes. Best of luck.

IMovie to iDVD or Final Cut Pro to DVD studio pro "Better output"

I recorded some family videos onto a computer with a WinTV pci board.
Converted the MPEG2 to DV/DVCPro NTSC on my Mac with MPEG stremeclip.
Used quicktime to divide the tapes/clips where we had switched recordings.
Now i was going to use final cut pro but i am starting to like imovie 09.
I want to take the clips and add simple fades mostly cross dissolve fade to black and just nothing something not noticeable. Then once I have combined the events reasonably. I want to put them onto DVD.
Say our christmas videos
One DVD with each year christmas event.
And one for someone's birthdays through the years.
If you need me to elaborate ill try harder.
So should I use Final Cut Pro then have DVD studio make the DVDs Or iMovie 09 and iDVD 09. Which would have the best looking output.
Oh by the way how can i remove the static feedback from the recordings I don't care which application i need tell me which one.
If someone needs an example of the main sound i don't want ill post one.
Note: I will be posting this in the Final Cut Pro forms as well.

Since you have both, you should run both and see if you see a difference.
I would expect that a $1,400 product would outperform a $20 product (= 1/4 of iLife).
But the question is, How much better? and is it worth the extra effort to you? Only you can decide that.
Another option for you to consider is you can edit in iMovie and export your project to Final Cut Pro in XML. Might be the best of both worlds.
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The apple page (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164931) only gives a partial answer. First, if you are making it to watch on TV make sure you use the "title safe" setting in the canvas. You will get two blue boxes. The outer box shows what will appear on your TV screen, and I have found it to be pretty true. I have found that for my videos I need to set the scale to 90% (found under motion on the viewer) to fit the frame. I also put in chapter markers because it lets me jump around as I wish.
Next, when you go to export, Choose QuickTime movie. At the bottom of the window are three pop-up menus, settings, include, and markers. The last two are easy. Under "include" you want "Audio and Video". Under "markers" choose chapter markers if you made any. Under "setting" you can choose what you want, but I like to go to "custom" because it shows me exactly what all the settings are. For the video setting in the U.S. you want DV/DVCPRO - NTSC.
As the Apple page says, do not select "Make Movie Self-Contained." If you are going to import it into iDVD a self contained movie is pointless. It also takes much longer to export. A movie that took 35 to 40 minutes to export as a self contained movie took 5 minutes when I unchecked the box. Also, self-contained movies take up a whole lot of space.
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Final cut pro to quicktime to idvd

Ok, i did my project on Final cut pro 4 HD and put all the markers for chapters like i was supposed to. I then exported to a quicktime format. In quicktime, it read the markers and created the chapters, but when i imported the quicktime movie into iDVD 5, My chapters don't show up or work. I worked and worked, but i'm out of ideas, any help?

I spent my Christmas vacation battling this issue, except that my QT movies were reference movies from Avid Xpress Pro to which I added a chapter track, which iDVD 5 proceeded to ignore. I figured out that I could add a single 'kgit' atom to the moov and make it work.
I know, that sounds like Greek. Without the "r".
Here, I wrote it all up back in January--
http://capital2.capital.edu/admin-staff/dalthoff/qtchapters.html
What I learned is that once the QT movie has the magic atoms in it that make iDVD recognize the chapter tracks, it seems that all of those rules about where you can and cannot put your chapter markers in iMovie can be safely ignored.
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--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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