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Hello fello Mac Fan Editors!
I'm a noob, so please bare with me. I'm working on a relatively new iMac dual core with plenty of memory (for now). I am editing in Final Cut Pro, and have most of the bells and whistles such as DVD Studio, Compresser etc..
Excluding an issue about the opening crawl for Star Wars E3, I have a rough cut of one of my edits that I wanted to test so I burned to DVD to see the results. I'm not satisfied with the results so I'm hoping that someone more experienced can point me in the right direction. (I'm at work and not in front of my computer so I'm going to run off of memory here)
My workflow was as follows (provided to me by someone who edits original movies, but not a fan editor):
The clip in question runs 2 hours 13 minutes, or 133 minutes.
In FPC I used Send to -> Compressor. As I'm planning on using a dual layer DVD, my friend suggested I try setting to 90 minute version believing this would provide the least compression which would then be mitigated by using the DL disk. Set the sample rate (I think it's called) to 7 and then submitted. It created an AC3 and M2v file as expected.
I brought these into DVD Studio, dropped it into the movie icon, set it to play first and deleted the menu icon. I set my chapters, made a few other adjustments at my friend's instruction and burned the movie (straight burn, didn't build/compile or whatever individually.)
The resulting DVD looks 'OK' but not nearly as good as the source (My wife thought it looked good, but she's not the visualphile that I am). I'm such a noob that I don't know where I'm introducing the degradation. Before I left work I set it to compress again, this time for a 150 lenght movie and planned on trying again, but I figured I'd hit you experts up to see if there is a known best way to do this and save my learning curve (and expensive DL disks)
thanks in advance!
I'm a noob, so please bare with me. I'm working on a relatively new iMac dual core with plenty of memory (for now). I am editing in Final Cut Pro, and have most of the bells and whistles such as DVD Studio, Compresser etc..
Excluding an issue about the opening crawl for Star Wars E3, I have a rough cut of one of my edits that I wanted to test so I burned to DVD to see the results. I'm not satisfied with the results so I'm hoping that someone more experienced can point me in the right direction. (I'm at work and not in front of my computer so I'm going to run off of memory here)
My workflow was as follows (provided to me by someone who edits original movies, but not a fan editor):
The clip in question runs 2 hours 13 minutes, or 133 minutes.
In FPC I used Send to -> Compressor. As I'm planning on using a dual layer DVD, my friend suggested I try setting to 90 minute version believing this would provide the least compression which would then be mitigated by using the DL disk. Set the sample rate (I think it's called) to 7 and then submitted. It created an AC3 and M2v file as expected.
I brought these into DVD Studio, dropped it into the movie icon, set it to play first and deleted the menu icon. I set my chapters, made a few other adjustments at my friend's instruction and burned the movie (straight burn, didn't build/compile or whatever individually.)
The resulting DVD looks 'OK' but not nearly as good as the source (My wife thought it looked good, but she's not the visualphile that I am). I'm such a noob that I don't know where I'm introducing the degradation. Before I left work I set it to compress again, this time for a 150 lenght movie and planned on trying again, but I figured I'd hit you experts up to see if there is a known best way to do this and save my learning curve (and expensive DL disks)
thanks in advance!