Quality of DVD *****

Hey I am working on my first video project in iMovie. It's about 30-40 minutes of footage and/or photos. When I burned a test copy using iDVD, I put it in my DVD player to watch on TV and it was skipping and having little hiccups that were not visible when viewing in iMovie as a project. I am wondering if it's because I am using bad quality DVDs (I am using Dynex DVD-R). Will it make much of a difference for me to use a better brand? Is there anything else I can do to fix these problems?

I have noticed that several users in this forum have recommended Verbatim as the brand to use. Also, it has been advised to save the iDVD project as a disk image and burn from the disk image using the Disk Utility application. Burning from a disk image allows you to set your burn speed to at least 4x. Lower burn speeds tend to have less disk errors when burning and are easier on your computer to burn. When using iDVD to burn, you cannot adjust your burn speed.

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Use either of these techniques to get good quality DVDs from AIC.
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You can also SHARE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME, but I would not recommend it unless you know what you are doing.
Drag this file into TOAST 10 with BluRay plugin.
Check FILE/PROJECT PROPERTIES in TOAST to make sure you are burning at highest quality.

How Can I Make a High Quality HD DVD Video (dvd vob)

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thanks
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I don't know about NTSC but there is a nice PAL solution for SD 16:9 for ordinary DVDs. The 16:9 image becomes 720x576 pixels. So the pixels are each quite wide, and the horizontal resolution is less than the vertical resolution, but at least no pixels are wasted as with letterbox.
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I have tried the "best quality" and encode a 1 hr. video from DV Cam , the size of the video is only around 2 G out of 4.2.
While I use my DVD HD recorder to make a DVD, I chose the best quality and the quality/resolution of the DVD is much better compare with the one made by the Mac book.
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welcome wwb to the  board ...
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This might be difficult to help with, but I've been concerned about this for some.
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Do you mean that you wish to Burn BD material to a DVD disc, or something else?
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Hi P
Don't think it is Your portable.
How to test ? Try a commercial DVD movie.
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Given the fact your PAL movie is only 15 mins. long in terms of QT playback, here are the settings I'd recommend if you're concerned about higher quality playback:
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Quality of dvd on a computer monitor

Is there any way to use idvd to author a dvd that will look good played on a computer monitor? All other projects I have done look pretty good on the TV but when I put my disk into computer to play with the dvd player it looks really bad.Can anyone explain why? The reason I ask is because I am videotaping a wedding for some friends, will be editing in FC express, then authoring dvd in idvd. This couple does not own a TV (they watch movies on a wide screen computer monitor) and want to watch the wedding video the same way. Any suggestions?
macpro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.66 ghz dual-core Intel, 2gb ram

You can use iDVD6 to create a DVD from FCE but eventually you will need to compress into mpeg 2. (unfortunately all compression involves some loss of quality).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/22.html

Out put quality after DVD authoring is less than .mov file that fcp source

Anyone know why I would be getting a notable drop in quality after i make a dvd?
going from HF11 Cannon shot at 17 mbps into FCP. then out to compressor and using the high quality dvd setting.
then when i play my dvd i notice for example jaggies on some objects yet if i look at the .mov file that was ignested into FCP that has almost no jaggies. is there some setting i'm missing?
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I'm up to my pits in information overload.
Someone with some idea or experience please help me out. thank you so much.

Here are some of your options as you look toward HD encoding.
Using Toast, Encore, or FCS 3 you can move toward blu-ray authoring and encoding. In Toast and FCS 3 you can make AVCHD disks which are blu-ray disks put onto single or dual-layer DVDs which is a huge cost savings. Your encoding is limited to 17 Mbps, but in h.264 that will still allow for decent quality. Encore will let you design a complete disk but it doesn't make AVCHD disks - you'll need to jump through some hoops in order to take an Encore project (but it can be done). Here's a workflow for that. As a side note this workflow is for using Final Cut Express - in FCS you have the added benefit of being able to work with 23.98 fps timelines.
Your other option it to move toward digital outputs. You can use something like an AppleTV to playback HD content (it'll be reduced to either 960x540 @ 30 fps or 1280x720 @ 24 fps. Or you can use one of the various media streams on that market now (SlingCatch, Western Digital WDTV, etc.) Personally I'm a big fan of the WDTV from Western Digital. It's affordable (around $100) and plays back all kinds of formats in HD up to 1080p. Plus it reads from flash drives or hard drives via USB. You can encode MP4 files for these types of devices in QuickTime, export from FCP, MPEG Streamclip, Compressor, etc.

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Need some help I notice that my menus on DVD studio pro are very low quality my video itself quality is excellent while watching the DVD on my regular DVD player

For your Tracks you want MPEG-2 video. But if you use that identical video in a DropZone on your Menu, the quality will be awful. Why? Because on a DVD the Menu is one single video that fills the TV screen. It might look like 3 or 4, etc videos on a background, but it is really just one. Now since DVDs use MPEG-2 video only, and MPEG-2 is uneditable, what happens behinds the sceeen is that DVD SP takes all the MPEG-2 videos on your menu, converts them to QuickTime. Then it combines them all into one single video. Then it compresses it all back to MPEG-2. Compressing compressed video always results in a loss in quality.
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If you want to get the best video you can, create the entire Menu in FCP (or Motion, or After Effects). Now you have the entire screen as one video, and DVD SP doesn't have to do anything with it.

Bad quality in dvd

I filmed a video with my sony hdr-fx1 camera in dv mode.
I transfered the movie into final cut pro 5.
I edited and everything looked fine in fcp. When I made the dvd in DVD Studio Pro or iDVD the result was a not so good quality video. Why????????
I see my whole work fine in fcp, but when I make the dvd everything looks like compressed......
I export my work to quicktime movie with the default settings for dv. Do I need to export with another setting????
Thank you.
I'm a beginner iin this stuff. I thought this thing was easy....

Ok.
Don't get mad!
oh, dito, i'm not mad at all! you've fallen victom to marketers who drape their products with glamour and glitz and tell you how your life will change for the better with this hdv camera and this computer. i've got three macs in my house and i always ask, why? i used to work out with all of my freetime, now i'm in my home editing bay. why?
i've spent almost 20 years in the realm of live tv in one compacity or another and i always ask myself, why? many regulars around here have more time than mine invested in post production. there's nothing glamourous or glitzy about this business although you wouldn't know it from reading the trades and looking at the ads.
I made the dvd with idvd.
The movie looks like if shooted with a normal dv
camera (a poor image camera).
I don't understand why if in fcp looks fine, perfect,
when I record the dvd or export the movie, the image
change. That's it's why I'm asking how can I export
this movie to maintain the quality (maybe not the
best, but good enough).
yes, there's a lot of issues here and most of it based in engineer gobbledy gook and most of i pretend to understand as it's part of my job - can't say i understand most of it though! your image quality depends a lot upon where you are watching it: are you watching your sequence on a fancy new apple cinema display or an expensive ntsc monitor or a consumer tv? another issue is based upon the length of your sequence and upon the mpeg2 compression settings.
report back and then go from there. i'm off to broadcast another day at wrigley field......

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Any thoughts?
Gil

All iDVD produced videos are 'Standard Definition' - that is 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high (give or take). Therefore, all of your megapixels are being reduced to 0.3 megapixels on the screen. There is nothing you can do about this - SD video is this size. The only thing you can do is make sure the necessary 'downscaling' is done as well as possible. For my still picture presentations on DVD, I use a program called 'Photo to Movie' (LQ Graphics), along with iDVD. It seems to do a better job of the downscaling process, along with having some neat features not in iMovie. I have produced many 'slideshows' that are certainly not HD, but are pleasing to view on an HD TV (pillarboxed). Others use 'Fotomagico' for the same purpose, but I have no experience with that program. HTH.
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