TOP quality to iDVDto COMPRESSOR or QUICKTIME CONVERSION

For best quality, should I use COMPRESSOR or QT if the projet is going to iDVD ?

Bogie-Chan's advice is on target, as usual. I have only one minor point. iDVD does not handle mpeg-2 files. iDVD can only deal with Quicktime files, which iDVD compresses to mepg-2 etc files for DVD. In this sense iDVD is a kind of a limited compressor, with only two compression settings. in fact, every and any file sent to iDVD will be compressed blindly. So you do not want to go from FCP to Compressor to iDVD. Go FCP to Quicktime to iDVD. The best route is of course FCP to Compressor to DVDSPro. The latter application offers much more control than iDVD, of course.

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    I guess I'm alone on this??? Rather hard to believe.

  • Exported Project via Quicktime Conversion-Some scenes "tear" at the top

    I have completed a 17 min project made up mostly of photo/stills. Some have motion added some dont---it doesn't seem to matter to my problem: when I exported the project using Quick Time Conversion I noticed as I checked it prior to using iDVD to burn it to DVD that during cross dissolves and some other transitions there was a "digitized tearing" or pixels slow in locking into place in the upper 1/5th or so of the screen. I had not noticed this problem in previewing the rendered project prior to export. Using FCE v3.5HD. Anyone seen this problem? Is there a problem with some of the transitions or was it something that occurred in the export? I tried to burn to DVD via iDVD so I could see if the problem was off the top of the screen, but apprently I did something wrong during use of iDVD. When the iMac ejected the DVD after burn, I tried playing on a set-top and it wouldn't play, nor could I get it to play in the iMac. I also had difficulty getting the iMac to eject this DVD.

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  • "Quicktime Conversion" quality drop

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  • Quality loss when exporting to quicktime (no conversion)

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  • Quicktime movie or Quicktime conversion?

    I shoot a wedding, everything is edited using final cut pro 7, I want avoid using compressor, Should I use Qucik time movie or should I use Quicktime conversion,,, I want to burn on a DVD, video was shoot at 1080p 3ofps... Please help

    Sorry, if you want to make a DVD, Compressor is your best bet.  I mean, you CAN skip it, and take the export directly into DVD Studio Pro to author the DVD...but Compressor will do a much better job. 
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    #42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
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  • Exporting a 4 minute clip using H.264 Quicktime Conversion but it's 2.5Gb?

    I have edited a 4 minute video using source footage at 1440x1080 50i. When I export using Quicktime Conversion and H.264 compressor it's taking forever and is coming out at a whopping 2.5Gb. I am sure I have used H.264 and Quicktime Conversion before and a file of this length and size should be about 15Mb. Also I remember it taking far less time.
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    Hi, welcome to FCP forum,
    Bit rate and frame size affect the file size, also best if you export sound as AAC not PCM.
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  • QUICKIE - default settings for quicktime conversion export

    Hi All...
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    Michael Grenadier wrote:
    Here's what I do. Park on the frame I want to export. Mark In AND out, Make subclip...
    Wow! I sometimes need to do a few frame grabs, and this is a great way to do it.
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    Gee and they still get work?
    If I didn't get out of my "comfort zone" my style wouldn't change, I wouldn't be able to handle OS and suite updates, let alone move away from linear suites.
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  • FCP quicktime conversion export problem

    issue exporting still image instead of video
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    within the last 2 weeks i have exported from FCP studio 7.0.3  as quicktime conversion, the settings are:
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    Encodeing: Best (Multi-pass)
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    Alistair
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    Corrupted render files (and render references) can be a pain because FCP will use those files and references  in place of the original media when building the export. And so it should as it does't want to waste time re-rendering sections that are apparently already rendered. Unfortuantely, as noted, if the render file has gone bad and/or starts referencing the wrong media then you'll get these wierd flashes of completely unexpeced and unwanted footage showing up where it shouldn't be. When you trash those files then QT / FCP will just go back and re-reference the original media ... so it's usually a worthwhile step to take just in case thats the problem.  The worse case scenario is that it only that doesn't work and you spend some time unecessarily re-rendering.
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  • Problems with Quicktime Conversion, FCE2

    I am having problems using quicktime conversion. I want to export a 4 minute sequence into uncompressed AVI.
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    Dear Tom,
    I appreciate you replying to my post, and am sorry for not getting back to you sooner, but i never received an email notification of a reply.
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  • Audio and video out of sync when using quicktime conversion

    hello,
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    What format are you converting the HDV to?
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  • Please help. When exporting a 720p video using Quicktime Conversion in FCP it saves some extra temporary files to my computer. The file is called ICMMultiPassStorage. This file gets so large that eventually the program and exporting process crashes.

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  • Quicktime conversion taking too long

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    Message was edited by: ec84
    Message was edited by: ec84

    let's put it this way. if you do File>Export>Quicktime you'll make a quicktime file with the same compressor as your sequence and it'll render faster. If you select File>Export>Quicktime Conversion you can make a quicktime file with a compression of your choice. (although the conversion process takes time). so you could compress it into a DVCPRO 50 quicktime, or an uncompressed quickime or H.264 quicktime. any of these settings will play in quicktime. These you can select through the options button in the converter window. we just suggest you use Export>Quicktime because it's faster easier and it's useless in your situation to convert.

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