[MacDV] Re: iDVD3 quality issues

[Erica Sadun]

>  > My questions are: did I needlessly complicate things, or degrade the
>>  picture, by making a DV backup of the project, and then encoding it
>>  from there, instead of from the original project? And is there a less
>>  lossy compression I can use within FCP and/or iDVD than the one I chose?
>
>If your movie was over 60 minutes long, iDVD downshifted to its
>lower-quality compression setting (5 megabits per second). If you can cut a
>few minutes to get under 60 minutes, iDVD will encode at 8 mbps, and you'll
>get much better quality.

Jim's right.

However you can cheat and change the compression setting back
to 8 Mbps by editing the project file. iDVD's pretty stupid
when it comes to these things, so it shouldn't notice that
you changed the bitrate back.

If you're really close to 60 minutes, it should still fit.

-- Erica