Quality Issue - 1h 36min DV (FCP)movie on idvd6

In the 1h36min (plus motion menus) movie I've tried burning, I have lots of speeded up footage that tends to pixelate and cause some dvd players to stutter over certain parts worse than one of GWBush's speaches.
Is there anyway I can reduce the data rate myself without taking out the speedy clips in the movie? I guess I can't use "Compressor" with idvd, or have "compression markers" provided in Final Cut to help, right?
Any tips or links to tips would be appreciated!!
Sincerely, Mr. Coasters!
(PS-Sorry George - I stutter too sometimes.)

I have lots of speeded up footage that tends to pixelate and cause some dvd players to stutter
Have you tried rendering your speeded-up clips as DV stream video, and then importing the rendered clips into your FCP project?
Speeding up your clips means dropping frames, potentially creating very large frame to frame content changes. Since MPG-2 compression works on the difference between adjacent frames, I can see how you might get pixelation as a result of the large changes.

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RE. Best looking IDVD playback.
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I have a Sony DCR-TRV17. This camera is a little over 10 years old. It is a miniDV with 500 lines resolution, 680K gross pixels and uses MPEG. While not HD, the image quality is exceptional. The DVDs I used to create using my Sony Viao likewise looked fantastic. But the results I get from iMovie and iDVD are on par with VHS -- very poor, especially in low-light.
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3) I will most probably buy an HD camcorder very soon, and plan to burn to Blue Rays. I have no problem with going ahead and buying Final Cut and an external drive to burn Blue Rays. Should I just go ahead and do it and get away from iMovie / iDVD entirely. Will Final Cut solve this issue for my old miniDVs without a whole lot of hair pulling? Or will I still have to tinker with a bunch of settings or convoluted processes to get it "right." I never had to tinker with settings on my Viao. Really expected Mac software to be more user friendly…
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On Import you could try unchecking Optimize video and choose Full Size. Your disk space however will get eaten up incredibly quickly choosing these settings as each hour of video = 40GBytes of disk space. So be forewarned about how big those files will expand as they come off the MiniDV tapes.
Another thing you will immediately see a difference in is how you move files from iMovie to iDVD. Share to iDVD while named in an intuitive way, is NOT the best way to get good quality DVDs out of iMovie. Instead you want to Share to Media Browser. Choose the Large Size setting. Then quit iMovie. Open iDVD, click the Media button, the Movies button. Find your project listed under the iMovie star icon and drag it into the iDVD project. Burn the Disc and see if you get a higher quality disk by Sharing to Media Browser instead of Share to iDVD.
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Hey -
So I have iMovie 09 and then found out it has really crappy quality issues. So I came to iMovie 06 to start working with stuff. I decided to try putting in 4 photos and sharing them with iDVD to test it out. I haven't actually burned them but the preview of iDVD and in iMovie makes the photos look a lot more crappy than they actually are. I'm able to make those photos full screen 1440x900 without really having pixelated features. Yet, iDVD when it's just taking up a minimal amount of the screen has all the pictures pixelated (along with iMovie)
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.
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I have been editing for 4-5 years now and have never had a problem with size of a project to put into DVD Studio Pro to burn. However, I just finished a 2 hour project in which exported as a FCP movie it is 23.97 gb in size. When i put this into DVD Studio Pro it makes it 4.8gb in size which just makes it too big for it to burn. I have tried changing the compression to no avail and just now decided to clean up the timeline so everything is on one track with nothing overlapping. (The problem was it was a 2 camera shoot so the first camera i had on the bottom track constant with the second camera on the top track when i needed it but still with the first camera underneath.) Do you think this could be the solution to my problem? If you guys could help me out it would be most appreciated!

some things don't make sense here. please clarify.
Standard DV is roughly 5 minutes per gig, so that means that you have just about 2 hours of video, ok, got that. Now it's the two track thing that gets me.
Are you saying you have 4 hours of footage, the same thing from two cameras, and you're trying to set up a multi-angle DVD?
If it's just that you used two video tracks to edit, then NO, it is not your problem. It's still only 2 hours, the video will be mixed down to one track upon export from FCP to quicktime.
My suggestion is, instead of bringing a quicktime file directly into DVDSP, use compressor. I believe they have a preset in compressor 2 for a standard 120 minute DVD. IF you're project is truly less than 120 minutes, than that should be fine. If not, then you may have to manually make your own setting and lower the bitrate.
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-export your movie to a directory of your choice with a name of your choice.
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-drag the quicktime file you created into compressors main window, this will set it up. Now specify the export setting (120 minute HQ all files either 16x9 or 4x3 dep. on project) and specify a location for the files to be created. I strongly suggest that you use the HQ (High quality) settings in compressor. It's much slower to process, but much better quality.
-with a 2 hour movie it should take a really REALLY long time to compress, so I'de say do it over night.
-when compressor is done, you should have 2 or three files. a .m2v file a .aif file, and a .ac3 file. The .aif is your PCM audio, much better quality than the .ac3, which is dolby 2 channel. However, the .ac3 is a much smaller file with a lower bit rate, so if the .aif makes the DVD file size too big, you can switch it out for the .ac3
-Finally, open up your DVDSP project, drag the .m2v, .aif, and .ac3 into DVDSP and use the .m2v for the video track and either the .aif or .ac3 as the audio (as mentioned above)
-the good news is, your DVD media is already rendered, so when you go to build your DVD it will go much, much faster!
By the way, I recommend you go to file>advanced>build do not do a burn and build.
I find it best to build the VIDEO_TS folder on a hard drive and then use a program like toast to create a DVD (using toasts from VIDEO_TS option). This method also allows you to go back into DVDSP, make tweaks, and reuse your VIDEO_TS folder, not having to rebuild the whole thing each time.
Remember, 120 minutes on a single layer DVD is going to render fairly low quality no matter what.
If you have a newer mac and a dual layer drive, you may want to cough up a few bucks and get a dual layer DVD-R, then you have over 8 gigs of space to work with, perfect for HQ 2 hour footage.

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hello out there
i completed a 31 minute fcp movie
frame size 720 x 480
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compression type: dv/dvcpro ntsc
scan mode: interlaced
aspect ratio: 4:3
i exported using qt [no converstion]
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How would i get it down to 2GB to send a digital preview movie file to festivals either via
"withoutabox" or "shortfilmdepot"
whose size limits are 2GB. i would like to use up all the size for best possible quality result.
this is the first time i have attempted to use the compressor and i'm not sure at all how to get the best quality
within size limit.
could i also just use the quicktime conversion to get a highquality 2gb movie from the 6.64 master?
if so would i do that within fcp
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Use these settings for a start.
File>Export>Using QuickTime Conversion.
In the window that opens click the Options button and in the new window (called Movie Settings) click the Settings button.
The window below will open.
Set everything like that.
If you wish you can deselect "Frame Reordering" and if you choose "Faster Encode" it will encode in about half the time with little or no loss of quality.
Click OK and you will be returned to the Movie Settings window.
Click the Size button and then from the Dimensions menu button select Custom and insert the frame size you want.
Click OK and you will be returned to the Movie Setting window.
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Click OK and then Save the sequence to a suitable place.

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Hi, this is probably a basic question but i am very new to fcp as usually use imovie&dvd!
I have a very short sequence which i exported to QT and is now a fcp movie file not avi which seemed like an inferior quality file.
Am having huge difficulty burning this to dvd - have tried twice in toast basic and although the movie plays and sounds perfect in the preview, when the disc mounts and plays the image is perfect but the audio is only a piercing squeal.
Tried to burn through the finder but the disc wouldn't verify and it gave me an error code.
To avoid too many coasters i was wondering if anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong to get this distorted audio once burned?
big thanks in advance

Without a doubt, DVDSP will give you a much better product.
But, if you simply need a quick burn to DVD, you can also use iDVD.
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Once the file is exported, just open iDVD and drag the exported movie file into the interface. There's a setting to make it 'first play', but I don't remember where.
Burn away.
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My first time be gentle. I have been dabbling in FCE for several years, little home projects. Every time I burn iDVD copy, the overall quality of the images seems fuzzy when played back on TV. I am planning a more demanding project and will need much higher quality end product- have bought FCP am planning to buy G5 tower (have ibook and emac now) and upgrade from Cannon GL2 to HD cammera??
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1). does the G5 dual proc. tower come with sufficient capture card to produce broadcast quality stuff. (i know nothing about cards)
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3). Have i been doing something wrong for the past two years with my FCE and ibook to have created _not even close to broadcast quality shorts?
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The quality issues you mention could be attributed to many individual things or a combination things. Hard to say without seeing the image quality first-hand. Some of the more common issues are; lighting during the shoot, video format, lens, camera settings during recording and ... unrealistic expectations on your part.
You seem to be comparing the image quality from your GL2 to "broadcast quality" but in reality the two are different things. Also, you're viewing the output of iDVD which isn't known for it's outstanding quality.
To address your questions directly:
1). Yes. If you have broadcast quality footage to feed it with the correct capture card and other needed system resources, a G5 or MacPro can handle several broadcast formats very well. But as with most things of this nature, video editing is a garbage-in, garbage-out proposition. You HAVE to have the quality on the front end.
2). The G5 and newer MacPros come with Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 ports. Those will work fine for all DV25 and HDV flavors - none of which are considered "broadcast quality." You'll need an optional card for other formats. Which card to use is dependent on the format you choose to work with. Of course, your G5 will also need additional hard drives capable of sustaining the data rate of your chosen format and as much RAM as you can afford - 2gbs minimum, 4gb+ recommended.
3). See above - 98% of it depends on the quality of your footage to begin with. The GL2 is a consumer DV camera which has a 4:1:1 color space (as do all DV25 formats). That is not broadcast quality and Canon didn't intend it to be. Many broadcasters won't accept DV footage at all.
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