Conversion & Exporting

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well. My question is about a 25 minute video that I have edited and I have to make about 80 copies. I've made the project self contained and its size is 5.36 GB. I was thinking of taking it to a burning house and let them to all exporting and all the copies. The first question is how can I downsize the self contained file so I may fit it on a 4.7GB dvd? The second question is how or what would be the best way to export this file to get the best quality out of the video? I apologize if I'm not too clear and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted on Jun 21, 2007 8:51 AM

21 replies

Jun 21, 2007 11:06 AM in response to Jared Torres1

How do I use Idvd?

Jun 21, 2007 11:52 AM in response to Jason Gouveia

To be honest, I'd rather stick with DVD Studio Pro and try to figure it out. If anyone can tell me how do I get a 5.36GB file thats already a FCP self contained movie file to be exported into Dvd Studio Pro 4 with the best quality, it would be greatly appreciated. The way I've done it has only taken up less than 3 GB of space. I would rather not do too much compression.

When I exported it using compressor and the 90 min best quailty setting, the file only takes up 1.2 Gbs of space on the dvd. I also tried opening DVD studio and importing the self contained movie file and it compressed it for me but the same thing, only 1.2 GBs of space is used. I would like the file to be about 4Gb of space cause it'll be less compressed.

How would you guys take a sequence edited in FCP thats 25 min long and put it into a DVD using DVD Studio Pro 4?

Thank You

Studio X

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Jun 21, 2007 11:50 AM in response to Jason Gouveia

Jason,

You have a fundamental gap in the knowledge base necessary to understand this process.

Please open the DVDSP manual and read the first section called 'A brief overview of the DVD creation process.' You should find it useful and enlightening.

good luck.
x

Jun 21, 2007 12:04 PM in response to Studio X

I just read the section you mentioned but I don't believe I missed something or that I don't understand something. How would you get a 25 min video out of FCP and into DVD Studio Pro with the best quality?

Thanks for all the responses, its greatly appreciated.

David S.

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Jun 21, 2007 12:17 PM in response to Jason Gouveia

I suggest you read again.

The DVD doesn't fill up to 4.3 GBs to maintain quality.

Encoding is part art and part science.

If the 90 minute preset yields a size the leaves extra space on the DVD, it is for a reason.

A bunch of us have given you the workflow.

Exactly what else do you need?

Encode the 25 minute NTSC DV export using the 90 minute preset and use the ac3 audio file.

The fact that it doesn't "fill up" the DVD is not relevant at all.

If you spend some time reading here and elsewhere, then that fact becomes readily apparent.

You ask for advice.

People give it.

When it apparent that you do not know the process and people observe that, then you become indignant.

C'mon, do some reading, and take the multiple suggestions offered here and give it try and then come back with questions

David S.

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Jun 21, 2007 12:36 PM in response to Jared Torres1

If you want a simple excel worksheet to determine optimal bitrate:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/kenstone_bitbudget.zip

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