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Help! "Incompatible format" while making a NTSC DVD from my short film (in Final Cut) by using compressor, I usually use PAL format.

Hi I am making a NTSC DVD for a festival in US.


The file I made in compressor won't be accepted by DVD Studio Pro which corresponds "incompatible format".


I used following settings in compressor (sending the project from Final Cut)


Name: MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass

Description: Fits up to 90 minutes of video with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps or 60 minutes with AIFF audio on a DVD-5

File Extension: m2v

Estimated size: 662.51 MB

Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream

Usage:SD DVD

Video Encoder

Format: M2V

Width: 720

Height: 480

Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16:9)

Crop: None

Padding: None

Frame rate: 29.97

Frame Controls Automatically selected:

Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame

Resize Filter: Linear Filter

Deinterlace Filter: Fast (Line Averaging)

Adaptive Details: On

Antialias: 0

Detail Level: 0

Field Output: Same as Source

Start timecode from source

Aspect ratio: Automatic

Selected 16:9

Field dominance: Automatic:

Selected Progressive

Average bit rate: 6.2 (Mbps)

2 Pass VBR enabled

Maximum bit rate: 7.7 (Mbps)

High quality

Best motion estimation

Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP

DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled


What do I do wrong?

I also tried to make the file with Frame rate 23 in which the making of file failed in Compressor.


I need to send a good quality format, if this way won't work, how can I do it?


Also want to add that technical issues is not something I am very good at.


Would be wonderful to have ur help...


Thanks /JO

Compressor, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Jun 8, 2012 10:04 AM

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Posted on Jun 8, 2012 10:48 AM

In DVDSP Preferences, open Project and make sure Video Standard is set to NTSC. If it needs to be changed, then start a new project.


Good luck.


Russ

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Help! "Incompatible format" while making a NTSC DVD from my short film (in Final Cut) by using compressor, I usually use PAL format.

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