am i doing it right?

alright so my first snowboard feature is complete. its 21 minutes in length. i have probably like 10 minutes of bonus footage. i am just wanting to make sure i am doing everything right...

so i exported using quicktime. it shows up as standard 4:3 even though i shot everything in widescreen. all my fcp settings are correct. so i go into quicktime pro and change it over to 853 by 480. is that the correct size? i read it online in an apple tutorial that that must be done sometimes? half of my footage is filmed on hd and the other half is dvx.

now i will be using dvdsp and i just want to make sure things are all correct because it would blow to get back a few thousand dvds that weren't burned correctly or the right format. any tips or pointers would be much appreciated.

thanks,
keaten


funland-films.com

No, don't change the resolution in QT. Take the QT and Bring it into Compressor to create your MPEG2 and audio files. Use a 16:9 preset. Take the resulting files into DVDSP. It will read them correctly.

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Yeah, don't change the resolution. There is a zillion post on this forum about 16:9 anamorphic and how to use it correctly.

Of course, you're going to do a preview DVD just to make sure everything is right. Instead of burning a bunch of disk to tweek your final master, you can create a disk image (identical to real DVD) in DVDSP and save some time&dime.