Urgent! export widescreen quicktime to dvd-r

Help! By this evening I'll have to figure out how to export a widescreen quicktime to dvd-r. I tried 'send to idvd' but I don't know idvd and can't figure out how to disable the preset menus. I don't want any floating drop zones for this project, just a simple self-running slideshow on a plasma widescreen, for my boss's wedding anniversary. That's why it's top priority...

Hi Lori,
that link is very useful, thanks.
In the meantime I managed to eliminate the unwanted pieces from a theme, so I ended up with a single text-button on the first screen. The dvd-r I burned worked perfectly well on my own dvd player and widescreen tv.
My boss's wife was very happy with the slideshow and music. I just hope the dvd will run on their system as well. If it doesn't, I'll spend friday night rebuilding the show without the 16:9 stretch, for display on a computer...

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I am editing in FCP 4.5. The video was shot wide-screen 16:9. I captured correctly (I assume). My sequence settings are NTCS-CCIR 601/DV, 720x480. Anamorphic box is checked. Everything looks good - correct proportions.
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Greetings,
I was in a similar situation as this fellow editor;
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Hi David, I know this was discussed in you posting already but I just wanted to make sure I had it clear. I have a 4:3 film and I've exported as a quicktime movie with current settings, which should be 4:3 and found that the image when played back in quicktime, looks horizontally stretched. Almost as if quicktime is trying to play it back as a 16:9 image. I think this is the same issue the other fellow was having but I just wanted to be clear. You're saying that the 4:3 image distortion is perfectly normal when played back in quicktime on a computer screen and that the export will look fine when put to DVD or sent to a monitor? I just wanted to make sure because this problem is freaking me out and I don't want to deliver a distorted image to my client. Could you also explain briefly why this happens with quicktime export and not quicktime conversion and what causes quicktime to distort the 4:3 image? Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have a fairly simple slideshow - no video, some basic transitions and builds. There are nine slides, each one minute long (nine minutes total). It takes probably 30 minutes or so to export to Quicktime in full quality. Is this normal, or do I have settings incorrect?

Thinking out loud sort of:
Maybe the problem is that you're using GOP structured media, and because of this, the GOP has to be remade because you've edited in not iframes... I can recall just how long it took to create DVD's from HDV on G5 machines... YIKES it was slow. Might be a related problem. Dual only intel machines are a bit faster, but not by much... if your on a Powerbook or iMac.. you're on a dual intel most likely?
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I just edited a 3 camera shoot recorded with 3 HDV cameras last night as it turns out... but I captured it as ProRes using a Macbook Pro. The cameras never stopped so syncing them was pretty easy.
Larger files, but the switched 45 minute sequence exported as a reference movie in about 2 minutes.
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My FCP 6.0.4 rendering and export to Compressor no longer works after an update to Quicktime 7.5.5.
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I've done the usual, deleting prefs, new sequences and projects, even saving movs in different codecs.
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And I was so happy the Quicktime upgrade could play sequence movs recorded months earlier that until now I couldn't play properly due to previous Quicktime upgrades!
Apple gives with one hand and takes with the other....

Hi There,
Thanks for your reply on this.
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That was until the recent 7.5.5 Quicktime update where attempts to do the same things I did before result in "General Error!" coming up after a few seconds of play or rendering.
Traditional DV codecs are "blurry" in my opinion, especially when coping with web content or conversion of HD downloads.
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As always thanks in advance for reading and replying to my Post,
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I did try burning the 18.05GB file on i-DVD but even with the auto compression of i-DVD it only managed to compress it down to 5.4GB - too large for my 4.7GB DVD.
The only reason I need to burn it so my friend can author it is that he's a little too fussy and wants to author it on Adobe Encore.
I managed to get a firewire drive - but the blooming PC didnt accept it as it was Mac formated!
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Exporting to Quicktime

When I export to Quicktime, the slide size is too big for the screen. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I need to do to fix?
Thanks in anticipation.

Hi,
Please explain "too big for the screen." In what way is it too big, and for what screen?
I am in the process of rebuilding a 300 slide Keynote presentation, many slides of which have a lot of builds and motion. I want to save it all to a movie on DVD. What I didn't understand from the outset is the issue of TV Safe, and while the slides were all perfect when presented via Keynote through a projector, when it was made into a DVD-held movie, the peripheral was clipped badly. Now I'm rebuilding every slide taking the TV Safe zone into consideration. As you can see, I too had a situation where my presentation was "too big for the screen." Hence the reason for asking you to further clarify your issue.
regards,

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