Burning an AVCHD Final Cut Express project using iDVD
I have a 1080i AVCHD video that's been edited down to 45 minutes in Final Cut Express, I'd like to burn it to DVD using iDVD, but the quality when I export as a quicktime movie and burn the disc is not good at all. I'm not expecting it to be HD quality. I'm hoping for DVD quality, when I burn this it barely looks VHS quality. It just seems like iDVD isn't compressing it well. Would it look better if I exported it to a quicktime movie from FCE and changed the size to a more DVD friendly 720x480? How do I go about doing that?
In iDVD I'm using Professional quality, I have around 20GB free on the hard drive. Should I free up more space before I try again? Any help here would be great.
Hello Tom,
I guess I'm really confused. Apple upgraded the iApps & FCE to HD but left iDVD at SD? What good does it do to shoot edit and render in HD if the final step is to degrade the video through iDVD?
The only HD format on DVD now has to conform to Blu-ray. Apple is not supporting Blu-ray at this time. Maybe never will. You need Toast and a Blu-ray burner for HD on DVD disc.