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Edit in HDV and author to DVD Studio Pro?Posted by PG
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No offence intended but you are in dire need of some basic background of the technologies you are using. It would take any of us far too long to get you up to speed on why there is no such thing as an HDV DVD and how you are going to make an interactive menu. What I think you need to do is break it down into these major components: Edit the HDV footage in FCP. Export the final edit. Compress it for DVD Author the DVD Burn it Every one of those steps is going to require you reading the manual and figuring out what you need to be doing. Don't try any tricks without knowing what you are doing first. Work from basic principals and try to learn what technologies and acronyms mean and do. We will answer questions but we're going to need some sign that you know some basics first. ak Sleeplings, AWAKE!
Tom and Andrew,
I greatly appreciate your guidance and agree that I do need a lot of "basic background of the technologies" as you suggested. I have referred to both the FCP 4 manual as well as the DVDSP manual but have not been able to find the information that I need RE: HDV. I will keep looking. All I wanted to do was edit in HDV output to QT HDV and author in DVDSP but that may not be possible. I shall keep reading and searching. Thanks again for the information. PG
Thanks Jude. I was just about ready to throw in the towel on this matter when your note of encouragement popped up.
I am still somewhat confused, however. When you burn HDV to SD disks what actually do you have on the SD disk? By this I mean is it still SD or HDV or a better looking SD? What would be the purpose of editing in HDV if it didn't produce a better looking image than SD? I have gone through my manual and third party FCP and DVDSP books but there isn't much on the subject. Can you recommend a book that would lead me through this process. I am using DVDSP 4.1.2. Thanks again for your encouragement. PG
> When you burn HDV to SD disks what actually do you have on the SD disk? By this I
> mean is it still SD or HDV or a better looking SD? DVDs are Standard Def. Period. Even if you start out with a 4K image, by the time it reaches a video DVD, it's 720x480, MPEG-2. > What would be the purpose of editing in HDV if it didn't produce a better looking > image than SD? More pixels mean more detail at the acquisition (shoot) stage. An HD image encoded to DVD will look better than an SD image encoded to DVD. But by capturing your HDV as DV, you pretty much threw most of that advantage away. And HDV was never a great HD format to begin with. It's mostly a consumer format. You mentioned "release". Are you actually expecting studio-quality DVDs from your process? If you are, you are missing the high-end shooting format, the proper capturing and editing, the professional online and colour correction, and the professional DVD encode and authoring -- all factors in why a studio release looks like a studio release. www.derekmok.com
I am no longer doing broadcast videos only pro bono for worthy causes. Therefore, the final DVD release will be screened in conference rooms, internet, etc. However, I am interested in obtaining the best looking images for release as possible.
When authoring a DVD using DVDSP I would imagine that I setup the HDV in the preference menu. I tried it earlier today on a thirty second HDV QT and it took up most of the disk. There must be a 1-2-3 step manual for this process of going from FCP HDV to a final release on DVD. Thanks for your assistance, Derek.
didn't someone post this already? like more than once??
it's insanely simple; - export from FCP as a QuickTime Movie, Same settings - take that file into Compressor, find one of the DVD presets there. they are easy to find and self explanatory, drag the preset from the settings window to the file, submit. that'll give you two files, one for picture, one for audio, - these are the files you'll use in DVDSP coming from HD to SD can be an issue when making a DVD. hasn't caused me any issues, but i do see some people complaining about jaggies, etc. in that case you can tweak the setting once you've applied it in Compressor. double click on it to open it in the "inspector" find the Frame Controls tab, turn Frame Controls on and set the Resize Filter to "Best" you can set in/out points in compressor to do tests on a small section, or just put together some test shots in FCP. nick
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