Interlaced or deinterlaced to iDVD?

I created some short spots in FCP. I export them as uncompressed video. I bring them into a new FCP project for dubbing and they look great when I send them out Firewire to a deck and standard TV monitor. When I view them in QT player they look fine other than that I see they are interlaced.
When I then use those same uncompressed QT movies to send to iDVD 08 any graphics with movement and sharp edges (or video transitions that have sharp edges) look terrible. The edges are now blocks until the movement stops. These are not single interlace lines, but actual blocks of several pixels. I used the "professional" quality encoding and my startup drive has 50+ GB of space. There are nine :30 spots, so I'm not cramming too much video onto the disc. Do I need to deinterlace the video first?
Any comments would be most helpful.
Thanks,
--Kurt

Darn good question which I don't know off the cuff so let me do some searching on this forum and in FCP for you and I will post back (may take me a while but I will get back to you).
in the meantime this makes for good reading in the FCP Forum (First thread represents a similar situation):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5038444&#5038444
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5447449&#5447449
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unclemano wrote
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I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
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• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
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• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
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Hi
There are several layers to this
• DVD - is as Standard (whatever program used) - interlaced SD-Video - and can not be anything better than this.
• How material was created to iDVD matters
iMovie'08 to 11 - is not the tool of choise if quality is of importance - as they can not export interlaced video any way known to me - but does this by discarding every second line resulting in a sever quality loss
iMovie HD6 and FinalCut are so much better - as they can deliver 100% interlaced video over to iDVD
• How material is sent to iDVD matters
Share to iDVD - I NEVER USE as this makes iMovie any version to render (badly)
iMovie'08 to 11 - Share to Media Browser and as Large (NOT HD or other resoultion as this too degrades final quality) - forces iMovie to NOT RENDER and iDVD to do this (and so much better)
iMovie HD6 - just close it and import the movie icon into iDVD and iDVD renders.
Else my notes on DVD Quality
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
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• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn speed as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
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deliver anything better that this.
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less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
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• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
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(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
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(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
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• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
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unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
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• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
Yours Bengt W

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Error open idvd

actualicé temas de idvd y ahora al abrirlo se me cierra ayuda por favor quiero terminar mi proyecto !!

Google translate of: Idv se ha cerrado inesperente mientras se estaba utilizando el módulo EyeTv MPEG Support
is : IDVD has closed inesperente while the module was using EyeTV MPEG Support
And that's over my head - inesperente - can it mean temporary ?
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I would import into iMovie HD6 from A/D-converter - then use this in iDVD. (alt is FinalCut any version)
iMovie'08 to 11 are not tools of choice if a DVD is to be the result as non of them can handle interlaced SD-Video as iDVD needs to give 100% quality back.
Yours Guessing - Bengt W

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Just A Little Bit of Help Needed...

Hi.
My movie was edited in Final Cut Express 4. It's a web movie that will also be repurposed for DVD. I'll also have it duplicated at DiscMakers. In FCE, I applied a deinterlace filter. I make sure it's deinterlaced when it's exported so it plays great on YouTube and Facebook.
Now that I'm ready to burn this to a DVD using iDVD, I have a few questions.
1. Do I remove the deinterlace filter from FCE and send the interlaced footage right to iDVD by using export QuickTime movie?
2. Can I apply copy protection to this project in iDVD?
3. If iDVD doesn't allow for it, can it be applied at a place like DiscMakers from my provided DVD?
4. Can I sell my DVD that I produced with iDVD and not have to worry about copyright issues with apple templates?
Thanks so much.
Scott

Lots of interesting questions.
+1. Do I remove the deinterlace filter from FCE and send the interlaced footage right to iDVD by using export QuickTime movie?+
Doesn't seem like you'd need to, but I'd make a small project and test it both ways.
+2. Can I apply copy protection to this project in iDVD?+
No, but you could add a watermark to the movie in FCE, and to the menus in iDVD. You could also put the FBI warning at the beginning/end of the video, and/or copyright the material and mark it as such.
+3. If iDVD doesn't allow for it, can it be applied at a place like DiscMakers from my provided DVD?+
Check with them -- it's my understanding that the protection can be created when DVDs are pressed.
+4. Can I sell my DVD that I produced with iDVD and not have to worry about copyright issues with apple templates?+
I've not seen that issue addressed (I'd start by searching the forums). Perhaps get it in writing from Apple or use your own images to change to your own theme (I'm just offering ideas here; I have no legal background nor do I know what's on the rest of your DVD).
John

IMovie NOT able to import Sanyo HD1010 files ?

I want to know about what types of files format are supported by iMovie 09
Sanyo HD1010 Camcorder encoding format:
MPEG-4
1920x1080
H.264, AAC
That was shown in Info dialog in Mac OS X.
But iMovie seems not able to import.
I choose File > Import > Movie, and I select all movies I want to import.
Import Setting:
Large - 960x540
Copy files
And it goes to
Converting 1080i Movies
Processing Event: Christmas
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Time remaining: less than a minute
And it comes up nothing
It created a event at the bottom. But no movies was shown there.
iMovie not supporting that file format ?
What movie format it support ?
Is there any convertor that I can use ?

In Streamclip, drag your clips into the window. Then select File/Export To QuickTIme.
For Compression, select Apple Intermediate Codec.
For frame size, use the same as the frame size of your camera.
You may want to deinterlace the video, but you can try it interlaced and deinterlaced and see which one you like the best. You can test this with a short clip.
To test, import the AIC into iMovie, and then drag the clip into a project. Share the project in the format or formats you want to use (for example, h.264 for web, iPhone, or iTunes. Use Share to iDVD to make a DVD. Then see which one looks the best.
(In Streamclip, you can easily make a short clip by using I to set the in point and O to set the out point. This is nondestructive to the original clip that you dragged in.)

Interlaced or deinterlaced to iDVD?

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