Hello,
I have been working on a dvd production for a while now and am clueless on exporting. I have nearly 3.5 hours of finished footage. I was going to export using quicktime and noticed that the one segement was nearly 27 gb. I know a dvd-9 holds around 8.5 gb. Do I need to compress the movie? If so how do I do that? What is the best way to approach this situation? Thanks!
Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Three and a half hours will need a dual layer disc. You need to use a DVD authoring application to make the disk and compress the video. You could make a simple disc by exporting a DVD to the hard drive to create a disk image, and burn that to a disc using Disk Utility.
I am using dual layer dvd-9 discs. Do I export using quicktime, then compress it? Do you recommend a certain dvd authoring app? ( preferably free:) ) Will I loose a lot of quality? i know that i need to keep a certain bitrate but am not sure ... Thanks
Free is iDVD. FCP can do it but it's better to do a disc image first and burn that to disc. If you want to use iDVD you export a QuickTime master file, mist likely in ProRes depending on the specs of the project. iDVD does the compression. How much loss in quality depends on what you're starting from. It will be heavily compressed standard definition. That's the only way you can fit that long a program onto disc.
Exporting, DVD-9, possibly compressing, too much gb.
