The quality will be quite good and should meet your needs for all non-commercial releases of a DVD. Add any titles and images you wish to the main screenĬurrent versions of iDVD can burn between 90 and 120 minutes of material.Drag your QuickTime movie (exported above) into iDVD.Select a Theme - a graphical look for your DVD.Give your DVD Project a name and save it.Next, if you have a current version of iDVD, you can use it to create your DVD. The quality and contents of the reference and self-contained movie are identical. In these cases, you don’t need to waste the time or space creating a self-contained QuickTime movie. However, most of the time, you only need the movie to last long enough to get compressed, at which point you delete it from your system. If any of these reasons are true, you should export a self-contained QuickTime movie. You want to change the format of the exported file from what it was on your Timeline.You are working with HDV (which won’t allow reference movies).You are trying to solve an output problem with a sequence that won’t play properly to tape.You want to delete some, or all, of the source video or audio files from your computer and still have the exported movie play.You want to keep the movie on your computer for a long period of time.You need to give your movie to someone else to play on another computer.There are only six reasons to export a self-contained QuickTime movie: While some editors prefer to create self-contained movies, I prefer reference movies instead. (A one-hour reference QuickTime movie requires about 600 MB to store.) You create a reference movie by unclicking the Make Movie Self-Contained checkbox. Assuming that you render your sequence before exporting, references files are very small when compared to a self-contained movie and export very quickly generally about 20 times faster than a self-contained movie. A reference QuickTime movie contains all your audio, fully mixed, plus pointers that point to where your video and render files are stored.(For instance, a one-hour movie in DV format takes about 13 GB to store.) You create a self-contained movie by clicking the Make Movie Self-Contained checkbox. A self-contained movie contains all your audio, fully mixed, plus your video and render files all stored in one, very large, movie.There are two types of QuickTime movies: self-contained and reference. When to create a Quicktime reference, vs. Give the file a name and click SAVE to save it.If you are compressing this to MPEG-2 on your system, uncheck Make Movie Self-Contained this creates a QuickTime Reference movie.If you didn’t use Chapter markers in FCP, set Markers to None if you did set chapter markers, set Markers to DVD Studio Pro Markers.Make sure Audio and Video are selected, assuming you want to export both audio and video.Make sure the top pop-up menu is set to Current Settings.The best way to export your sequence is as follows: So, here’s the best way to convert your FCP project into something a DVD can work with. However, that’s not a video format that Final Cut normally works in. The principal format that SD DVD-Video supports is MPEG-2. I’ve had a number of requests for instructions on the best way to export a Final Cut project to a DVD. Larry’s Monthly Final Cut Studio Newsletter. [ This article was first published in the May, 2005, issue of
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