Using Compressor for DVD Output

I used a Sony CX-430V to record an event in 60p. Am I limited in the amount of video to compress to DVD? With standard video, I could work between 90 to 110 minutes. Total video I completed editing in HD is roughly 100 minutes. I am new to HD, FCPX and Compressor which is why I am inquiring.

Parm4u wrote:
Am I limited in the amount of video to compress to DVD?
Yes. You can lower the bit rate to fit more and more content, but at some point image quality will become unacceptable. Above two hours and you should probably use Dual Layer disks.
If you give Compressor an HD file it will down convert to a SD resolution and encode an MPEG2 file.
Russ

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Is it necessary to use Compressor for DVD Studio Pro*

I am making a FCP X movie and when it's finished I want to put it on a DVD using DVD Studio Pro. I have done this before but now I'm wondering if I should first export it to Compressor 4 and then to DVD Studio Pro. I understand that if I was puting it on YouTube or an iPod device I would need to Compress it however why would I need to go to Compresss 4 first if ultimately going to DVD Studio Pro? Would I get a better Codec quality then what I get from exporting in FCP X using their default Compression format i.e. Quicktime? Should I use an Apple ProRes Compression from Compressor 4? I guess I really don't understand the encoding quality options very well however I do want the best quality on my finished DVD. The DVD or Sequence is somewhere around 20 - 25 minutes if that makes any difference in your response.

The following applies equally to both C4 and C3.5 (which you have, if you have DVDSP). There is really very little that C4 can do compared to C3.5.
Bring your movie into Compressor as the source file. Drag the MPEG2 and Dolby Digitlal presets into the Batch window. Set the destination where you want your output file to be saved to.
If you are using HD material, open the Inspector>>Frame Controls and activate Frame Controls. Set Resize filter to Best. (If your source file is SD skip Frame Controls.) In the Encoding section, click on Quality and in mode change to CBR. Set your bit rate to 7.0.
Test a short representative section of your movie by marking a range in the Preview window. Submit.
Take your test file and drag it into the DVDSP asset pane. Do your build. Open it in DVD Player and see what you think. If you like the results, proceed with your project. If you're not satisfied, tweak your settings and test again.
Good luck.
Russ

My sound mix does not sound the same after using Compressor for DVD

Hi,
Is there something I can do to maintain the sound mix of my original file when converting to the dolby in Compressor. It needs to be louder overall and sometimes the music goes way too low and the dialogue goes to soft. Sound effects were louder and now get quiet during some parts.
Help?
Thanks!

Hi:
You must do some changes in the standard AC3 preset from Compressor. Duplicate it, and chage the following settings:
- Dialog Normalization: -31
- Compression Preset: None
Save it and try it. You must get the same mix and level than your original.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Help Exporting for DVD Output

What is the best way to export my 1920x1080 16:9 timeline for DVD output.
I have tried numerous attempts but the quality on DVD leaves something to be desired.
It looks great when i export it using QT but I also need to have it on a DVD.
Clearly, I am doing something wrong. What settings should i be using?
Sequence Settings
Frame Size: 1920x1080
Field dominance - none
Frames: 30fps
Compressor: ProRes422

First thing you've got to understand is that a DVD is standard definition. It will never be HD quality. That you will lose by encoding to mpeg2.
I'd do the compression in compressor-- try the standard compressions for your length, if those are NG, try duplicating a preset and upping the bitrate. Also, 2 pass vbr with increase the quality, at the expense of compressing time.
This is almost as dark an art as web encoding. Not difficult to do, just time consuming and tedious until you find the correct recipe.
EDIT: I should add that only you and your client can decide what is "good enough."
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Work flow? How to link multi-cam sequences for DVD output?

Pr cs4 (very new)
Still taking baby steps each day... please take my hand and help me!
Final output will be 2 DVD's (each DL) each about 2 hrs. Content are chamber music student groups in two recitals.
I have assets from two camera angles. I have successfully practiced on one of the groups performance (10 min.) following the steps illustrated in a multi-cam tutorial. http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0234
This leaves me with a great multi-cam sequence for that group located in the Project Panel, exactly what I want.
Now, I want to know what is the best method (workflow?) to ultimately produce a DVD containing about 10 of these type performances (one after the other) with chapter markings for each group, titles etc.?
I have yet to use Encore and I'm guessing that is where I'll send the finished edit for DVD production, though I don't know at what step I jump there?
Do I try to create one very long multi cam sequence of all the content, then send to Encore? Or can I create seperate multi-cam sequences (each performance) then link them together, adding transitions and make the DVD? This would be my preference to keep things more manageable, especially with audio synching.
With my practice multi-cam sequence on the timeline, I tried to drag the same sequence from the Project Panel to the end of the timeline to simulate how this would work, but it does not add to the timeline as a clip would.
This is probably childs play for you pro's, but we were all baby's at one time...I just happen to still be one!
Thanks for your patience and advice,
Kenny

Yes I did...now toss me a cookie please.
I am trying to quickly get up to speed in Pr CS4 to get this project completed. In the process, I'm trying to learn and understand the interface and correct terminology so as to make my questions intelligible to a community that posses vastly greater understanding than myself.
Is there anyone who can help with my main question at hand? Namely, how to go about creating a full length sequence (in the timeline) made via the nesting of synchronized multi-camera clips within a new "multi-cam sequence"?
As I said, I have completed a small test sequence in this fashion, nesting clips in a new sequence then using multi-cam monitor to record cuts. Now I need to add about 10 more of these together in a completed sequence to then send to DVD production.
Is this intelligible?
Thanks, Kenny
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please take my hand and help me!
Well, at least you had the gumption to admit that up front.
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> Is it possible to use soundcard for analog output with LabView6?
Have a look in the examples under Hardware Input and Output|Sound (LV6.1)
Dunno where it is under 6i, but the files are there.
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Issues with Motion in Using Compressor for a PAL DVD

I am new to DVD Studio Pro and Compressor and am trying to create a DVD of a 50 minute PAL project that I made using FCP. I have found a couple tutorials on how to export my project using compressor to be compatible with DSP via pre sets (DVD: Best Quality 4:3) and actually manipulating the controls myself. I have found in using both techniques that during any scene with motion, the edges of the moving actor become blurred and grainy. The tutorials that I checked out I assume (since they were from the US) were for NTSC projects, is there any other considerations that I should make in compressing a PAL project, which might contribute to this graininess? Any ideas?
Any help would be much appreciated. I have included my settings from Compressor below.
Thanks.
Name: MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass 4:3
Description: Fits up to 90 minutes of video with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps or 60 minutes with AIFF audio on a DVD-5
File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 273.48 MB
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 576
Pixel aspect ratio: PAL CCIR 601
Crop: None
Frame rate: 25
Frame Controls: Off
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Bottom first
Average data rate: 6.2 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 12, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled

The general concepts are the same in terms of maintaining quality throughout the work process in terms of Codecs, exports etc.
As to the motion areas, compression markers in FCP can help in problem areas. What you should do is grab some of the problems sections and drop markers in there and encode them. Some of the frame controls can help, depending on source footage. What was the original material and cpautred/edited? Sometimes things in there can also give quality hits.
Lastly some things (like real black outfits on light backgrounds) can cause some edging issues which can take some work to clean up as much as possible...

Grey screen on final burned DVD, used Compressor and DVD Studio Pro 4

Trying to create a standard dvd from a 2 hour and 8 minute 720x480 mov file. I have used compressor to create a mpeg2 as well as an ac3 audio file. After looking at other posts, I feel that what i've done in compressor is ready to be imported into DVD Studio Pro. I changed my preferences in DVD Studio Pro to support my mpeg2 and ac3 files coming in from compressor. After I import, they import very quickly. The playhead lets me scrub through the video fine, but when I go to the simulator, I get a grey screen.
I'm trying to output this file onto a dual layered Standard DVD. The fact that my video was originally an HD mp4, converted into .mov should not matter once it's converted into an mpeg2, correct? Mpeg2 is the standard DVD format.
I've also messed with the markers in DVD Studio Pro because I've read that the Automatic settings for the "break layer point" are not that "Automatic" I've seen other posters saying to add markers in the gap where the DVD laser should switch from layer to layer, but still my output burned DVD and simulator remain a grey screen!. Please help, I've referred to many posts and I believe that I've done everything right except maybe one or two things. So Close! Help! Thanks!
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messerw8 wrote:
I changed my preferences in DVD Studio Pro to support my mpeg2 and ac3 files coming in from compressor.
What were the chamges you made?
Does the m2v file that Compressor output play OK in QuickTime?
Russ

Using compressor for Studio Pro first then....

I wanted to get a jump on the rendering because the titles are not ready yet
for the dvd and thought about using Compressor to go ahead and make the
files like DSP does .Now if I do that, will DSP recompress those after importing them and will I have wasted time going this route
or should it scoot through pretty fast on the muxing thing?
DVD will be 1 hour with better quality.
TIA
Tony B

If you have encoded your video files to m2v for tracks, and imported them, then they are not reencoded upon build.

Do you have to use Compressor with DVD Studio Pro?

Hello,
I'm trying to find a way to streamline bringing QuickTime Movies made in FCP6 into DVDSP.
When I try to import QT Movies or movies compressed with H.264 into DVD Studio Pro, I get the error message: "Incompatible Format".
Is there anyway to get QT Movies into DVDSP successfully without using Compressor?
The least applications I have my students using for this, the better.
It's odd to me because you can go directly from QT Movie into iDVD with no such problems.
Thanks,
Marc Griffin
Message was edited by: Marc Griffin

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the quick response. The rationale of our workflow is to avoid using Compressor to simplify the process for our students making DVDs. But if we are going to have to use Compressor to change the frame rate, as you suggested, then we're just going to have to live with using the application.
We'd consider burning High Def DVDs, but with the format war between BluRay and HDDVD, and a general lack of High Def players and Monitors on the general marketplace, we are going to have to stick with SD DVDs for the time being.
Resultantly, we're going to be stuck with using Compressor in our DVD burning workflow.
Thanks Everyone For Your Help!
Marc Griffin

Using compressor3 for DVD but no audio? Any suggestions?

I made a quicktime ref movie of 1 hour show and dragged into compressor 3 ... but no audio on quicktime?

Hi:
For DVD use you have to encode your video to MPEG2 (I think you did it) and your audio to AIFF or Dolby 2 (AC3) in separated files.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Using Compressor for broadcast quality?

I apologize for posting this question here, but I did a search and found in one thread that nobody goes to the Compressor forum and they all post here.
Are there any online tutorials on what the best steps are to preparing a broadcast safe MPEG2 file? There are so many options , and I honestly have not used this part of FCP much. We've got a computer playback system now and it's something I am going to utilize more often now.
Or if anybody reading this has a suggestion to steps I could take I'd appreciate it greatly.
Thanks for any help

From what I can gather, it won't be as easy as creating a file with Compressor. For starters, you will probably need to "mux" (that is, mix the video and audio together) so this automatic system will play the program when you provide it to the server. This will need to be done in a program like DVD Studio Pro. Below are some VERY BASIC step-by-step instructions. If they don't make sense, pull out your manuals and start reading. I've left out explanations and alternatives as time and space doesn't allow for everything. That's why they have manuals. But here goes otherwise:
Export the final FCP timeline out as a Quicktime file. You can do this as a self contained movie but it's faster if you don't. Place the resulting file where you can readily find it. (Note: you can also export directly from FCP to Compressor. This is a long way to do it, as FCP has to first encode it out to Compressor.)
Open Compressor and drag your new QT file into the Batch window. Look over to your right in the same Batch window under Settings and using the pull-down menus, choose something like "MPEG-2 60 min High Quality Encode". Choose "All" in this situation because you'll want to go ahead and encode your audio too. You should see two entries: one for audio and one for video. Note the Destination tab (where the file will end up). In this regard, I suggest you use the pulldown menu and choose Source. This will place the resulting file(s) in the same location as the QT file. Click Submit to begin encoding and sit back, have some iced tea and wait a while.
When it's done, open up DVD Studio Pro. (If you don't have Studio Pro, then you're really stuck because -- again-- you have to provide it as a format that the player, be it server-based system or disc based, can read). But let's assume you have DVD Studio Pro and when it opens, import up the two files into your Assets (bottom left corner). When they import, drag the video (the one with the .m2v suffix) over into the Tracks timeline. Since they both have the same name, but different suffix, the audio file should follow over and sync up with the video. You can test it by playing the Timeline. Now go to the top left hand corner of DVD SP and click on the disc icon within the By Type window. Over on the right of the interface, in the Disc window, you'll see the name of your disc (probably Untitled) and under it, a pulldown menu again. Holding it down, choose Track 1. Save your project under a name, like the name of your video. Click on the little hammer, or Build, icon near the top middle of the DVD SP interface. You'll be asked where to place the results. Create a new folder and name it-- and decide where it will be placed. Click Build and sit back. This too takes a while. When done, you can upload the resulting folder (with the two folders that will be inside labled VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS) to your server. How your "juke box" player system will locate your file is beyond me but I'm sure there is a way to make it locate the folder. When it does, there are instructions written in the DVD standard so the player can play the program.
Once again: this a very basic explanation!! But you didn't really ask for details. If you get stuck, try some of the tutorials in FCP/Compressor and DVD Studio Pro. Good luck!
Oh yeah, as the others have written, "broadcast quality" is a very loosely based term these days. When providing programs to media outlets as "DVD quality", it usually means as good as a quality you can get with the amount of space on a DVD. This all depend on your bit rate and the length of your video. There are bitrate calculators out there that can certainly help!
http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
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Best Compostion Settings for DVD output

I am working on a project that does involve some regular DV footage but the vast majority of the footage will be animation movs exported from After Effects. These movies are simply pans and zooms on still photos done in After Effects.
What I'm wondering is what sequence settings I should use.
The final output will be to DVD and it will be viewed mainly on TVs, not computers.
One thing I hate is when I do these still pics and on a TV they look jittery or shimmery or alias-y or whatever it's called.
Is there some way to avoid this?
Is it possible to do a movie in progressive scan even though some of the footage is DV?
How about when exporting from AE? Should I use the DV setting or the progressive setting?
Any thoughts will be very helpful.
Thanks,
S

David,
Your answer "Depends on what is causing the problem. Could be one of (or a combination of) many things; resolution too high, areas of fine detail in the image, poor scan, dimpled/textured photo paper, patterns within the image, areas of high contrast within the image, etc. Each of these problems needs to be addressed individually for each photo." intrigues me.
We are scanning the photos as high res (3000x2000 in some cases) TIF files to allow for panning and zooming. They are B+W and do often have high contrast. They also often have areas of fine detail. I don't think poor scanning or dimpled paper are issues.
Could you offer any ideas on how to fix these images for TV viewing? I will say that I have read other posts on here about using deinterlace, flicker filter, etc and I am never pleased with the way the image is degraded with these filters.
The best I have found is to use a slight blur. On this forum people often say less than .5 pixels but that is never enough to eliminate the flicker, shimmer, what-have-you. I am often forced to use a gaussian blur of 1 to 1.5 pixels.
What I don't like about this is how it then looks on a computer monitor (should people pop the DVD into watch on their home computer). On a TV the images generally look fine.
Any ideas?
Do you think just sticking with regular NTSC DV sequence settings is appropriate?
What about sequence settings for video processing? Would it help at all to use "high quality YUV" rather than "8 bit YUV" since these are animation movies of still pics?
Thanks for the help,
S

Using Gui_download for excel output

Hi,
I am using gui_download to output in excel format, my requirement is i want to start records from 3rd row in excel.
On first row first column title shoud come? Second row blank, i used fieldname for header in export paramenter from 3rd row.
Plz help me to sove this issue.
Thanks in advance.
Vishnu.

Hi vishnu,
Here is the sample code below.
*& Report ZVK_TEST1
REPORT zvk_test1.
TYPES:BEGIN OF ty_ekko,
        ebeln TYPE ekko-ebeln,
        bukrs TYPE ekko-bukrs,
END OF ty_ekko.
TYPES:BEGIN OF ty_fields,
        field TYPE dd03l-fieldname,
      END OF ty_fields.
DATA:lt_ekko TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_ekko,
     lt_dummy TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_ekko.
DATA:lw_ekko TYPE ty_ekko.
APPEND INITIAL LINE TO lt_dummy.
APPEND INITIAL LINE TO lt_dummy.
SELECT ebeln bukrs INTO TABLE lt_ekko
FROM ekko UP TO 10 ROWS.
DATA:lt_fields TYPE TABLE OF ty_fields,
     lw_field TYPE ty_fields.
lw_field-field = 'PO NUMBER'.
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EXPORTING
   bin_filesize              =
    filename                  = 'C:\Documents and Settings\krishnavatte\Desktop\kris.xls'
    filetype                  = 'ASC'
CHANGING
    data_tab                  = lt_dummy
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    file_write_error          = 1
    no_batch                  = 2
    gui_refuse_filetransfer   = 3
    invalid_type              = 4
    no_authority              = 5
    unknown_error             = 6
    header_not_allowed        = 7
    separator_not_allowed     = 8
    filesize_not_allowed      = 9
    header_too_long           = 10
    dp_error_create           = 11
    dp_error_send             = 12
    dp_error_write            = 13
    unknown_dp_error          = 14
    access_denied             = 15
    dp_out_of_memory          = 16
    disk_full                 = 17
    dp_timeout                = 18
    file_not_found            = 19
    dataprovider_exception    = 20
    control_flush_error       = 21
    not_supported_by_gui      = 22
    error_no_gui              = 23
    OTHERS                    = 24
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MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
           WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_download
EXPORTING
   bin_filesize              =
    filename                  = 'C:\Documents and Settings\krishnavatte\Desktop\kris.xls'
    filetype                  = 'ASC'
    append                    = 'X'
    write_field_separator     = 'X'
    fieldnames                = lt_fields
CHANGING
    data_tab                  = lt_ekko
EXCEPTIONS
    file_write_error          = 1
    no_batch                  = 2
    gui_refuse_filetransfer   = 3
    invalid_type              = 4
    no_authority              = 5
    unknown_error             = 6
    header_not_allowed        = 7
    separator_not_allowed     = 8
    filesize_not_allowed      = 9
    header_too_long           = 10
    dp_error_create           = 11
    dp_error_send             = 12
    dp_error_write            = 13
    unknown_dp_error          = 14
    access_denied             = 15
    dp_out_of_memory          = 16
    disk_full                 = 17
    dp_timeout                = 18
    file_not_found            = 19
    dataprovider_exception    = 20
    control_flush_error       = 21
    not_supported_by_gui      = 22
    error_no_gui              = 23
    OTHERS                    = 24
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
           WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.

Export using Compressor for DTV setting (7 channel audio)

I am trying to export a FCP project using Compressor - I have 8 channels of audio - to make up L, R, C, FLE, Ls, Rs,Lt, Rt. I am exporting ProRes 422 HQ with the SMTP DTV Audio setting. At the end of the export, I have been dragging the file into soundtrack to check the audio output, and there is only info on the first two channels of the 8-channel audio track.
The sequence settings are set as discrete channels. What am I missing?

And then, you feel like an eejit when you realize that you forgot to assign the channels in the timeline....

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