Advice needed for Creating SD-DVD's from PAL HDV footage. 1-2 Hr Duration

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Pete1980 Author

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Advice needed for Creating SD-DVD's from PAL HDV footage. 1-2 Hr Duration

Hi,
Please can anyone offer me advice on the most suitable workflows for working with footage shot on a PAL Canon HV30 (HDV25P, Cine mode) and creating Standard Def single layer 4.7gb DVD's that can play on most home DVD players. The duration of the project is quite long at 1hr 45mins. Do I need to import the footage at a lower res? If so, with what settings in FCP? Or can I still work with my already imported and roughly edited HDV imported clips? Many thanks for any advice....
Pete

iMac 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb Ram, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Final Cut Studio 3

Posted on Nov 29, 2009 6:10 PM

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Nick Holmes

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Nov 30, 2009 7:56 AM in response to Pete1980

Export the finished movie from the FCP Timeline with Current Settings, as a Self Contained or Reference Movie (I always go with Self Contained).

If you are familiar with DVD Studio Pro, open Compressor and use one of the DVD presets that the running time of your movie will fit into. Import the resulting mpeg 2 and ac3 files into DVD SP.

If you want to use iDVD, import the movie that you exported from FCP. iDVD will take care of encoding for you.

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