DVD framerate issues
by Samuel Grund
on
Jul 15, 2008 at 8:45:33 pm
This is driving me nuts..
I've edited video from two different cameras (one was mine and the other I borrowed from a friend) in FCP 5 and exported with just "Export > Quicktime Movie..." which I then burned to DVD using iDVD (I don't have DVD Studio yet). When I play the dvd, footage from one camera (mine Cannon ZR300) looks fine but when it switches to the other camera (friends - a sony hard drive camcorder) the video looks horrible. I think it looks like the frame rate is too slow. This issue only happens when playing the video on commercial dvd players, the video looks fine when played via apple's DVD player software and VLC.
I've never had this happen before and I'm lost. Anyone have an idea what I should do? Thanks.
Re: DVD framerate issues by Michael Gissing on Jul 15, 2008 at 10:49:58 pm
My guess is that when you watch the DVD on a commercial machine, you are watching it for the first time on an interlaced monitor. The problem may go back to the field dominance settings in the original FCP sequence. If you have not watched the project on an interlace monitor while editing, you won't have picked up any field problems as computer monitors are progressive. Same is true of watching the DVD on the computer.
If the "horrible" image is all jittery then that's my best guess.
Re: DVD framerate issues by Dave LaRonde on Jul 16, 2008 at 7:08:13 pm
Did you actually take the time to figure out how your buddy's camcorder worked, the kinds of files it made, the best way to import them into FCP, how to work with them in FCP....
...or did you just grab the camera, start shooting, then capturing and editing intuitively, and pray for the best?
The quality of the image is usually directly proportional to the work you put into getting it right.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: DVD framerate issues by Samuel Grund on Jul 16, 2008 at 9:23:54 pm
Yeah I've used similar camcorders before. The best results I've gotten were to import video and audio separately.
I did figure out my problem after trying a few different things. I figured my problem was the MPEG-2 encoding and I simply put the film in MPEG-2 using VisualHub before I burned it. Appears iDVD's encoder was messing up my work. Thank you though! :)
