QuickTime Export Settings for Optimal DVD

Hello. I am using a third-party slideshow software (FotoMagico) to produce a QuickTime video which I will then burn to a DVD using iDVD. Fotomagico has many different export settings. I would like to produce the highest quality DVD possible. From reading past posts, I understand that 640x480 is the maximum size for iDVD (although I also see 720x480 listed as a standard DVD size). I also understand, from an article on Apple site, that iDVD supports high definition video. Here's where I get confused. Should I export from the slideshow software using H.264 video compression, or should I use another of the available codecs, like DVCPRO? Also, is it possible to make a DVD that looks sharp on a high resolution monitor (say 1280x1024 or some such), or must I just downscale my expectations and maybe make a QT movie for computer viewers? Thanks so much, Barbara

Barbara,
The 640X480 vs 720X480 dilemma is an interesting subject! DV Video and Video DVDs use 720X480 resolution. TVs do not have square pixels, but computer monitors do have square pixels - so some adjustment is needed, and 640X480 is the square pixel down-converted equivalent for computers to the 720X480 in non square pixels used by TVs......make sense?
iDVD supports high definition video
Well what this means is iDVD can read HD video files, and convert them to standard definition Video DVDs. It does NOT mean that iDVD can produce HD DVDs. HD DVDs and HD DVD players are not on the market yet.
Today's Video DVDs are not high resolution, they are 720X480. The only way to get higher resolution is to avoid the Video DVD standard, and just make a data DVD. This will not be playable on commercial DVD players, only on computers with the right software and codecs. If I needed to make professional presentations on large screen high resolution monitors, I would not use Video DVDs. Bring a new powerbook and use H.264
If you want to go the DVD route anyway, then 720 X 480 is the best you can get. I'd tell FotoMagico to export in HD (720p). This is a bit of overkill, as iDVD will encode at a lower resolution, but I've gotten good results that way.
You may have to use the anamorphicizer to get iDVD to realize the movie is Widescreen.
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
hope this helps
John B

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