Putting Extra files on DVD

Hi,
How does one go about putting extra files on a DVD. I want the DVD to play the video normally when it is put in a DVD player, but I also want a Quicktime file to be stored on the DVD so it can be accessed on a computer.
Thanks

You can build the videots/audiots files with DVDSP, then use toast or disc utility to burn these and the QT file to a DVD.

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Results are very poor quality video as you would expect from converting a highly compressed file an other two times.
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I might be able to help...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2091550&#2091550
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But I've no idea why this worked, and it was the only time I tried it, so it might not work. Although the 3 .avi files were exact same format (DivX 6.0)
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oh yeah, iDVD burning and Quicktime converting takes really long! I had to leave my iMac on overnight once for each.
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peace

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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.
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What are your best ideas for putting a two-hour Final Cut Express file onto DVD? What I'm doing is exporting to QuickTime, then using iDVD, but I wonder if there's something better, i.e. quicker.
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I am self-teaching Final Cut Studio and DVD Studio Pro. I must admit, the manual is not helping me with some key areas.
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While working in iDVD, you need to add these photos to the DVD-ROM portion. You can read about this feature in iDVD Help: _Adding files to the DVD-ROM portion of a disc_
Here is the basic info. You can read more about this feature in iDVD Help: _Adding files to the DVD-ROM portion of a disc_
+To manually add files to the DVD-ROM part of your disc:+
+Choose Advanced > Edit DVD-ROM Contents.+
+The DVD-ROM Contents window opens.+
+Click Add Files, or click New Folder first if you want to create a folder to put the files in.+
+Browse to select your files or folders, then click Open to add them to the disc.+
+You can also drag files directly to the DVD-ROM Contents window. When you are done, just close the window.+
I hope this helps.

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I'm a bit confused. Since my original camera format was 720/60p, and I converted the footage to Pro Res422 in order to edit in Final Cut Pro 7, should I convert back to a higher quality format before sending the file to DVD Studio Pro? If so, which Compressor codec is best to use in order to preserve the original 720/60p? How do I maintain the highest quality?

No...ProRes is a high quality format. Finishing format. Many TV networks take that as a final deliverable.
BUT...DVDs aren't high definition...they are SD. You cannot make a 720p60 DVD with DVD Studio Pro. Any DVD you make will be SD...720x480. The only HD DVD format out there is BluRay, and for that you need a BluRay burner.
As for making a high quality DVD...using the BEST QUALITY settings in Compressor will work:
#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:
The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:
1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.
2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.
3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.
4. Now, select the green one, right click on it and select the top option "first play".
5. Now drag your QT from the browser and drop it on top of the green monitor.
6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the "general tab" in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select "16:9 pan-scan."
7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.
THATS ALL!!!
NOW...if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose "16:9 LETTERBOX" instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.

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Can anyone please advise what's the best way to put/convert MKV files onto DVD disk while maintaining the highest playback quality possible?
As an absolute beginner to video recording, here's what I'm doing at the moment:
I'm opening the files with Quicktime Pro and the Perian extension. I then select 'Window>Show Movie Properties' and delete the unwanted Chinese voiceover and subtitle tracks. When I exit Quicktime it saves a copy of the file as a MOV, which at least seems a step in the right direction (and takes under 10 seconds). While it's pretty hard to judge by eye, the picture quality seems about the same to me, so I'm guessing there are no losses at this stage...
I then burn the new MOV files to DVD disk using Toast (which doesn't seem to recognise MKV files, and why I'm converting them to MOV in Quicktime in the first place).
However, the burn process takes an eternity... well... 12 hours for a two hour DVD anyway! Also, the image quality is disappointing to say the least. Kinda like what happens when we start enlarging a low-res JPEG image. I've partly put the image quality issue down to the fact that while it might look acceptable on a standard TV, it was never meant to be viewed on a large-screen TV when it was originally recorded 25 years ago.
So, am I incurring any unnecessary losses in my conversion method? Is there a better way to tackle this, or any special Toast burn settings to watch out for? Is there a faster way (though I'm prepared to wait as long as the burn process takes if I can maintain the best image quality)?
Thanks in advance
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Lennart Thelander wrote:
Your question doesn't involve iMovie at all. Nor does the solution (if there is any).
Karsten is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful guys around and he guided you away from here, simply because we are iMovie experts. We are not generally video exports nor codec conversion experts.
So in your own interest: Seek the answer where there is expertise to answer YOUR question.
I can only repeat what I said in reply to the other poster:"I'm totally new to video editing etc., so how was I expected to know if it had anything to do with iMovie until I ask?"
For all I knew, iMovie might have given me the option to say, import the file after having converted it to '.this' format in QT, and been able to re-export it within a few minutes as a '.that' file-type which might have accomplished exactly what I was trying to achieve. As you said yourself, you're the "experts" with iM and that's why I came here asking.
I'd have respected and thanked him for the remainder of his advice... had he simply left off the totally unwarranted first paragraph. A simple: "Sorry, but iMovie can't do what you want. I suggest you look in x for y" would have gone down a lot better.
Thanks, and sorry to bother you

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