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How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Mar 3, 2011 at 4:09 am in DVD, editing, web video by Josh Mellicker · 104 Comments »

How do I export a high quality movie from Final Cut Pro 7 or Express?

Once you’re finished with your edit, how should you export?

Well, it depends. Here are three methods:

METHOD #1. Reference movie

If you want to export a temporary movie as quickly as possible, export a reference movie.

1. File > Export > Quicktime Movie

2. UNcheck “Make Self-Contained”

Pros:

  • Fastest export
  • The file size is small – it only contains audio and pointers to  [read more →]

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What brands of blank DVDs are the best?

May 19, 2008 at 4:47 pm in DVD by · 2 Comments »

We’ve always had good luck with Apple brand blanks. The charts below, from http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm, rate blank DVDs:

1ST CLASS MEDIA – EXCELLENT DISCS:
Almost flawless burns with 95-100% reliable results. These  [read more →]

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How can I make my DVDs work the way I want in both DVD players and computers?

Mar 10, 2006 at 10:17 am in DVD by · 9 Comments »

There have been a lot of questions from people who are unhappy with how their DVD video discs are working when played on computers and/or DVD players.

Here is a short list of differences:

  • Buttons rollovers do not work the same depending on what WinXP DVD player application is being used, or in Apple DVD Player
  • TVs show cropped action safe area, computers show the whole picture
  • MPEG2 encoding that looks fine on a TV often looks bad on a computer… or vice versa  [read more →]

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What are the capacities of blank writable discs ?

Sep 12, 2005 at 12:07 pm in DVD by · Leave a Comment »

A detailed answer can be found here.