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paulfromparis
2007 August 27th, 05:38
Hello all...please excuse me for any mistakes but I am a complete novice at this.
To resume, I use imovie (iLife '07 NOT '08) and it works just fine for me; easy, simple and quite good quality. I have just bought a HV20 after reading this forum and various reviews...but my problems seem to have started.
I filmed in auto and auto plus cinemode and captured everything fine in real time. I then did some editing (just reducing scenes etc, nothing complicated) and then, and then, and then...I had to "export"...
After reading some posts here (i didn't and don't understand all this business about pull down etc...) I went for 1920x1080, then I tried H264 etc...only a short scene of 30 secs...The problem was the speech that had been recorded...it played back from the file as if the tape was turning slowly...the image was fine but the sound !!!
Anyway, my question is two fold...
1. What should I use as the "export" option (H264, no compression, ...??)
and secondly what is the best way to get the best picture onto a normal 1 layer DVD? (I use i dvd, then Toast 8)...I know I can't get HD on a normal burner (apparently you can but that's not my point) and I don't have BluRay or HD...I just want a good, "film like" (hollywood) finish/quality to my film/dvd.
Thanks for any help..

Material: MacPro 2 x 2.66, 5 GB ram, 2 x 500 HD, 2 X superdrives...

VeniVidiVici
2007 August 27th, 16:27
What was your audio sample rate set to when recording?

VVV

paulfromparis
2007 August 28th, 02:08
Thanks for getting back to me...
Ahhh, don't know...default I suppose because i didn't touch anything to do with sound
Cheers

VeniVidiVici
2007 August 28th, 14:52
Default is 12 bit which causes issues sometimes. Set it to 16 bit.

vvv

desperado
2007 August 28th, 22:04
idvd will produce a standard dvd resolution on output. (720x540) which is the same as what you get from "hollywood" type 1 dvd's.

if you were playing back the movie at 1980x1080 in quicktime, it could have been that your mac was having a bit of difficulty keeping up with it. (although your specs seem pretty good)

If you don't want to bother with compression, you should probably just use "send to idvd" as export, if you are going to finalize it there anyway.

from iDVD I usually "save as disk image", then use disk utility to burn onto dvd.

paulfromparis
2007 August 29th, 04:44
Thanks for those tips...will try out tonight and let you know.