[MacDV] FCP to QuickTime to iDVD

[Mark M. Florida]

Just export it as a Final Cut movie -- it will create a "referencing" movie
to the original clips (no re-compression).  Make sure you render all effects
and transitions before exporting.

Go under File -> Export -> QuickTime movie and use "Current Settings"
setting (I'm assuming you're working with full-res NTSC DV video), include
"Audio and Video", if you have chapter markers make sure to select that in
the "Markers" pull-down, and UNCHECK the "Make Movie Self-Contained" option
(unchecking this lets FCP create a "referencing" movie that points back to
the original files).

Then take that file into iDVD where it will be squashed into MPEG-2 (iDVD
has a pretty good compression engine, so it should look good).

Hope that helps.

- Mark

On 12/8/04 11:42 AM, George Robertson at gcrobert at shaw.ca wrote:

> Please forgive such a basic question from someone who hasn't burned a
> DVD for over a year and has forgotten the path.
> 
> I have a finished project in FCP 4.5. I want to make a DVD with the
> highest possible (but still compressed, of course) quality. Do I export
> it first to QuickTime, and if so, what setting should I use? Within QT,
> there are options for exporting a QT file as "Best" Quality, so
> presumably I want that. If I initially export my FCP file to QuickTime
> and then convert it again to "Best", those are two steps. Am I
> complicating things needlessly? And in both cases, should I be choosing
> 30 fps or 24?
> 
> I realize these questions brand me as a newbie, which I'm not - quite.
> 
> George 
>   
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