Professional dvd-5 encoding 55min

I'm creating a DVD-5 product for mass production so it has to be the best quality and fit on DVD-5 format.
The movie is an animated movie rendered using toon shader so there's lots of flat colors.
I'll be doing the authoring in DVD studio pro.
My question is what settings are important in compressor 4?
I have my chapters already rendered in separate chunks.
MPEG-1, 2 or 4?
What known issues does compressor have with encoding I should watch out for?
Thanks
Jason

Hi Jason,
I spent the past two weeks trying to get Compressor 4 to export a high-quality mpeg-2 for DVD. I found the stock DVD settings to be pretty aweful.
In my search for the proper settings, I found this post which outlines a how to get good looking DVD's from compressor. The renders take much longer, but my DVD's look great now.
-Kevin

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Is there no professional DVD program running on Mavericks?

DVD studio Pro and Adobe Encore is not working on Mavericks.
You can't no longer install a Power PC program on Mavericks, therefor DVD studio Pro is out.
Right now you cant do a professional DVD with a Mac running on Mavericks?
Why have Apple stopped develope DVDSP?
Do anyone know any other program for making professional DVDs on Mavericks?

"Adobe Encore CS6 works on Mavericks - which version are you using?"
I use Adobe Encore CS6 and it's not working on Mavericks. And it's not working for most, se Adobe forums.
Have you tried to open Encore from Premiere? How did you manage it to work for you?
"My DVD Studio Pro 4 (Part of Final Cut Studio) works fine in Mavericks"
If you try to make a project you will notice there is many features not working.
My problem is that I cant install it on my MBPr with Mavericks. Impossible to open a Power PC software on Mavericks.

When delivering for professional DVDs, should files always be progressive?

Is it understood that every Quicktime file that you deliver to a professional DVD authoring house should be progressive? Or do I need to ask? Or do some DVD authoring houses make DVDs from interlaced files.
A house I delivered to didn´t bother to tell me that they waned progressive files, because they thought it was so obvious that everybody used progressive.
The program I delivered was 100 per cent made from dv footage, so therefore I would have to deinterlace my self. Is the interpolation in the deinterlace filter in FCP any good? could it be compared to the interpolation filter in Photoshop.

"Professional" is meaningless around here. Your duplication house was correct but your client wasn't. You needed to know what the delivery format was BEFORE you started the job. A progressive DVD is usually meant for display on computers only. Anything that is meant to be viewed on a television/video monitor is—usually—output to DVD interlaced, unless, of course, you're going for that film look.
Progressive and interlaced have other uses, too.
bogiesan

Prepping for Professional DVD replication

I am prepping my FCP movie for DVD authoring and I was wondering if the capability of Compressor is equal to that of the software a professional duplication house would be using the encode video?

You can get very good results from Compressor, more so when you have good footage going in. The professional houses have many many dollars of expensive equipment and often high end source to begin with, so it is a bit of an unfair comparison
That being said, between Compressor, bitVice, Digigami and CinemaCraft there are real good options on the Mac side of things that are affordable and which would do a very good job, and often people would not notice, other than pixel peeper types (generally) The difference is really going to be more from the fact of the source. Also, usually replication is used for professionals(?)
I guess it comes down to what you are considering professional in terms of results. (Not trying to be flippant on that one, just is a term that is hard to nail down without benchmarks.)

Professional DVD in iDVD? Or Atleast Decent Quality...

Okay, I'm thinking of making a DVD and cramming a bunch of stuff on it. I will have a movie shot on a DSLR that will be about an hour and forty-five minutes. I want to save it out as an MP4/M4V which will probably be about 4gb. Then I want to ADD DVD Extras including an MP4 of another movie I did (but this will be saved as a file if possible) but it's and SD film and comes in at about 1gb. The rest is a trailer and a featurette. Can anyone tell me what will the quality be like for set-top players as well as people playing these disc on PCs. I do have DVD Studio Pro 4 also, but I love iDVD's pass through and Stretch backgrounds.
I also thought about doing a Blu-Ray, but Apple's Blu-Ray function, even out of FCPX is atrocious as far as menus go and I hear Toast 11, even Pro, is buggy and not very good with menus either. Is there any reason people won't create a Blu-Ray burning program for Apple. Even if it just burns a blu-ray image to a DVD5 and/or 9. I hear the quality on that is pretty decent. Any word on a DVD Studio Pro 5?
And I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.5, Core2 Duo with 4gb of RAM. And a G5 1.8 with only 2gb of RAM. Any ideas? I've managed to get great quality from iDVD, but I've always burned basic .Mov files and not MP4 files.
-Nate

Hi - my notes on this
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
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• 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 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.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• 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.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
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
to get this to work I
• 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 !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• 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
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

Use full potential of DVD (space/encoding) ?????

I have a 90 minute anamorphic DV video that's roughly 18gb in size. I imported it in to iDVD with out a problem. Threw together some menus and I was done. I had the preferences set to use "Professional Encoding" which I could only assume meant it was the best quality. Using that setting I got around a 3GB DVD. When I popped in the DVD burned with the "Professional" setting, the DVD was VERY pixelated (especially around edges and text but everywhere else as well) and the quality of the original video is nothing less than stellar so there is no reason I should be getting this quality. What I want to do is burn it to a dual layer DVD and use the DVDs full potential (or at least encode it at the max of 8 or 9 mbps which is the DVD standard. Is there anything I can do to have it try and use most of the space for a better encode? Can I encode it using another program to get a satisfying end product and import it into iDVD and NOT have it encode it??
Thanks in advance.

There is a maximum playback bit-rate that set top DVD players can support. 60 minutes on a single-layer disc with 'Best Performance' is VERY close to the limit. If you are using a double-layer disc, 120 minutes at 'Best Performance' would be very close to the bit-rate limit.
On a single-layer disc, 90 minutes at 'Professional Quality' (what a misleading name, by the way) will have lower playback quality than 60 minutes at 'Best Quality'.
I want to do is burn it to a dual layer DVD and use the DVDs full potential (or at least encode it at the max of 8 or 9 mbps which is the DVD standard.
It can't be done because of the playback bit-rate limit. 'Professional Quality' is good when you are trying to put more than 60 minutes on a single-layer disc or more than 120 minutes on a double-layer disc. 'Professional Quality' uses two passes. The first pass looks at your content to decide where the high detail/movement is and where parts of low detail/movement are. The second pass actually encodes your content using something close to the 'Best Performance' bit-rate where it found high detail/movement and a lower bit-rate where the low detail/movement was.
F Shippey

Burning a DVD project encoding error

I created an iDVD project about a year ago. I now want to burn additonal copies of this DVD. When I open the .dvdproj file and select Burn DVD from the menu, the process starts but stops at the process movies strp with the error mesage: "There was an eror durning movie encoding". I have made copies of this DVD in the past. I have the DVD. Is it possible to just copy the good DVD to another DVD if I can not corrcct this error?

Have you edited the movie since burning the first video DVD? Go to the Advanced menu and select "Delete Encoded Assets". Then try again.
However, follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty 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.
If you get the same response while trying to create the disk image start over with a new project and add the media to it.
OT

MPEG DVD Compliant Encoding size

Hi I have just bought Premier CS3 and are just getting to grips with it, most things seem straight forward and the prog is excellent.
However I have come across 1 aspect that confuses me. I used Premier to capture 26 minutes of Mini DV Pal progressive footage and added 46 stills (2048x1536) and a wav file for background for the stills of 42mb.
I then exported the whole thing to Adobe Media Encoder used the MPEG2-DVD Pal High Quality template. This produced a combined m2v & wav of 800 MB.
This seemed lower than I was expecting so I fired up TMPGEnc 4 Xpress that I have use in the past and roughly asked it to perform a similar exercise and it came up with a file of 1.5 GB.
The quality looked the same so why the vast difference in size?
Is Main Concept's engine that much better than TMPGenc's or have I sacrificed some quality somewhere?
Forgive me if I am being stupid.
Thanks
Scott

Thanks for the responses!
So would this then be sufficient specs for anyone wanting to submit in MPEG format?
Video and audio must be perfectly synched, then output as 2 separate files.
Please follow specs outlined below:
Video: MPEG2
Dimensions = 720 x 480
GOP length = 15 frames
Frame Rate = 29.97 Hz (NTSC),
Aspect Ratio = 4:3
Bit-rate (constant or variable bit-rate) = 8.0 Mbps
Filename extension = .m2v
Audio: either AC3 or .wav format
Sample rate = 48 kHz
Sample size = 16 bits/sample
Number of channels (front/rear) = 2/0 (stereo)
Filename extension = .ac3 or .wav
For someone wanting to submit a DV AVI file, would the above specs be the same, but a/v is combined in 1 file?
Can Mac users ouput an AVI file?
Thanks so much for all your input. It's greatly appreciated.
-Karen

Does the DVD mpg2 encode setting automatically re-encode mpg2 files?

I am running DVD Studio Pro 3. I have also encoded my video to mpg2 (using quicktime) before import. Will DVD Studio Pro 3 re-encode the video if I set the encode preferences lower than the original mpg2 files? I want to test lower bitrates. If I can just change the encode setting in DVD Studio Pro and set it to encode upon build, it would be much easier than individually recompressing all of the imported files. This would be a great timesaver to test lower bitrates.
Thanks.

No -it doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. It only encodes what needs to be encoded and if you have already got your assets as MPEG2 it won't unencode them and re-encode at a lower rate.
You'll need to encode them yourself - you might like to take a single short sequence (ten seconds) and encode that at different rates in order to create your tests.

Most efficient way from FCP to DVD? Encode when?

I know this is a frequent question, but new options in FCP 5, Compressor, and DVDSP have made a confusing process even more so. Once I've edited something in FCP, what is the highest quality way to get that into DVDSP? Export as QT, import into DVDSP, then encode? Export with QT Conversion? With which settings? Export using Compressor, then import already encoded files into DVDSP? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

I always export QuickTime Movie, current settings. Whether or not you click self contained depends on how long you want the file to be valid. Then I import that into DVDSP and let it do the encoding. Simple. Good results.
Patrick

Professional DVD Recorder for FCP??

Is there a pro DVD recorder/player that can be controlled like a deck (9-pin/FW or both) for input and output of Final Cut Pro? I often need to capture offline clips of sports events that are 3 to 4 hours long. I've been using Amerisoft's DVD ripper, but I have to capture the each long title of the DVD and I only need a few seconds at a time. Setting up output and doing crash records to Dbeta or similar is also quite laborsome. It would be nice to be able to control a DVD player within FCP and capture the clips like you can from a tape.
Thanks in advance,
Eddie

Is there a pro DVD recorder/player that can be controlled like a deck (9-pin/FW or both) for input and output of Final Cut Pro?
No....no such thing exists.
Why are the sports events master footage on DVD?
With MPEG STREAMCLIP you can mark IN and OUT points and import only what you want.
Shane

Combo DVD region encoding

The combo states the usual warning that changes can be made only five times is there a multiregion fix to get around this?
The reason I ask is the Mini is used by my non-IT literate Mother who will receive family DVDs from relatives around the world and she'll use up the 5 switches by Christmas I reckon. I know I can install VLC which is region independent but she's some way away and I won't be able to do that for some months.
My idea solution would be some executable I could burn to CD for her to run! Here's hoping.

Ah, I see. Well, Adobe Premier Elements is a different program from Adobe Premier which is now known as "Adobe Premier Pro".
You shouldn't lose any quality by editing DV files, they're still digital and don't go through "generations" while editing. If you play the original DV tapes back through your camera to a TV, do you see the same quality? If the original tapes are better, it could be the DVD authoring process which changed the quality. I don't know what Adobe Premier Elements has in the way of DVD authoring options.
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More DVD length /encoding issues

I've tried searching /reading most of the iDVD and don't think I've seen this issue; although I'm new to iDVD and this machine so please bear with me.
I have set Quality to "Best", yet I still get the "Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. " iDVD gives me:
Project:
- total project duration: 79:16 minutes
- total project capacity: 4.326 GB (max. available: 4.172 GB)
Menus:
- number of menus in project: 3 menus
- total menu duration: 1:11 minutes
- total menu capacity: 54.286 MB
Movies:
- total movies duration: 78:05 minutes
- total movies capacity: 4.273 GB
Are Single layer DVD's not capable of 79 minutes? Or is it only DLs that can handle two hours? I have only 6 relatively small pix in the Theme, no music or videos.
Than-Q for any help anyone can suggest.

It should work since on a single layer DVD you should be able to put as much as 120 minutes on it. You may have a corrupted preference file. I have seen that before where even though you have Best Quality checked, the program is still working under Best Performance. The fix is to find the iDVD preference file, trash it, start iDVD again, set the preference back to Best Quality (B.Perf is the default so you have to change it back again) and then try your project again and see if it now allows you to put your 80 minute project onto a DVD.
Patrick

Searching For Professional DVD Creator Software

Our iDVD is kicking out the disc one minute prior to burn completion.
Is anyone familiar with this issue or have any suggestions?
Much appreciated.

Write the output file to a disk image and burn in Disk Utility.
Russ

Difference between FCEHD & FCP

Hi,
This topic might have been posted before and I'm quite new to these 2 pro apps.
My school currently has FCEHD and I'm more interested in FCP and may be attending courses for it.
What is the difference between these 2 apps and will I be able to incorperate skills from my FCP course into the FCEHD?
Thanks

I believe the biggest difference between the two is the fact that FCP comes bundled w/ DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, and Motion.
Other than that as far as the Final Cut programs go there's really not much of a difference it seems execpt for Muti-cam, Setting default transitions, stuff like that. I dunno I might be missing something but I've owned FC express 2 and I just HAD to purchas Motion 2 because I didn't have it w/ FC Express then I took advantage of the Motion Crossgrade to Final Cut Studio and that's my story.
What I missed between FX Express 2 and Final Cut Pro is the Keyframing and 3-way Color Corrector but since this is now available in FC Express 3.5 I can't really see the difference between the two as far as editing goes unless it's a convience issue but if you want more than just editing video (ie. professional DVD authoring, encoding, Motion graphics) then Final Cut Studio is definitely worth the $$$!
If you ask me though; sooner or later you ARE going to feel the need for the programs bundled w/ FC Studio (Motion and DVD Studio Pro) and since you can not upgrade from Final Cut Express to Final Cut Studio it might be worth it to use the $300 USD that you would of spent on Final Cut Express and put that towards you investment in Final Cut Studio.
Do it!
Oh and Welcome to the Discussions!!!!

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