[MacDV] DVD Movie production in Widescreen

[markflo at mac.com]

Since no one else has tackled this, I'll give it a shot...

Your best bet would probably be to use something like Cleaner 6 to get 
your edited movies into MPEG-2.  So you'll need to export it from FCP 
first, but if you do it as a FCP movie (rather than a fully exported 
QuickTime) the file size of the exported movie should be much smaller.

Also, I thought you could specify the size of the MPEG-2 file you 
wanted when exporting form QuickTime Player...  but I don't know about 
going straight from FCP though.

So try a third-party compression app, or use a different codec like 
Sorensen (if it's for computer playback). (so, is this for DVD playback 
or computer playback?)

BTW, what is a Panasonic PT-50PHD4-P? (quite a mouthful!)

- Mark


On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 03:16  AM, Tony Sheppard wrote:

> It has been one of those weeks ..... our WebMaster (and alround dogs' 
> body
> when it comes to any digital productions) has been given the fantastic 
> job
> of producing promotional material for a Panasonic PT-50PHD4-P (1366x768
> pixels).
>
> The first lot of material has been produced in Keynote (and Keynote is 
> very
> good as far as we are concerned ... and hasn't crashed either :-)! ) 
> and
> exported to Quicktime using the Motion JpegA codec and is good 
> quality. The
> resolution is 1366x768, at 25fps
>
> After trying with iMovie and iDVD and realising that the quality is not
> going to be good enough, mainly due to the stretching of the movie to 
> fit
> 4:3 used by iMovie / iDVD. So we have tried FCPro (in a custom 
> sequence of
> 1366x768 to allow for the full quality of the movie) and DVDSP, but 
> finding
> that on outputing to MPEG-2 (which it outputs it at 720x480) the 
> quality is
> not good enough quality for management.
>
> My main questions are ....
> 1. Looking to do this sort of production are we using the right tools?
> 2. How can we output to MPEG-2 at the needed resolution? Third party 
> codec?
> If so what would people recommend?
> 3. Are there any good tutorials for producing Widescreen DVDs?
> 4. We are utterly confused as to what size as to do the stills (using
> Photoshop) and for sequences in general for FCPro?
>
> We are a UK based school but the DVD player does PAL and NTSC, but
> information for PAL would be best.
>
> Tony Sheppard
>
>
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