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- bmacneill
I'm making a video for a client in Final Cut Pro. Basically, it's just a bunch of photos fading in and out of each other with some music and copy over top of it. I'd like to be able to do this video in HD, but unsure of the many formats--which should I choose? I'd like to eventually burn this on to a DVD for the client to watch on their TV. Should I even go the HD route? Chime in!! Thanks in advance.
- jkmohr0
first off, final cut pro sounds like serious overkill for this kind of project. you could probably get away with using the latest version of iMovie for this. it supports hd and the lot.
also, hd is a bit overkill unless you're burning to an hd disk and watching on an hd tv.
- bmacneill0
Well, I was going to use FCP because I can run titles over the images, multiple soundtracks, etc. If I just want it to be a widescreen DVD, what setting should I use to set it up? DV NTSC?
- MrOneHundred0
I think you could even generate the slide show footage out of iPhoto in whatever specs you need, and then lay your titles and sound over the top in FCP.
- bmacneill0
I've already figured out how to get my images going in FCP, and its working quite nicely. I'm just not sure how to initially set up the file in terms of frame rate/resolution, etc. There's about a million different formats. Right now I'm using HDV 720p30. But what's that going to look like exported to a DVD? Basically, I'm just looking for the best route in terms of format.
- pr20
bad choice. you gonna export to standard deff DVD which is NTSC 720x480 at 29.97.
- bmacneill0
Even if I'm planning to have it widescreen 16:9 format? 720x480 is 4:3 isn't it? I dont care too much how it looks on a regular tv, just widescreens.
- 16:9 is widescreen, si!akrokdesign
- 4:3 is fullscreen.akrokdesign
- pr20
let's put it like that. if u pop anything other then an NTSC 720x480 int a regular DVD player it won't know what to do with it. The way to do it is to encode using NTSC Widescreen template (still keep it 720x480, all that changes is the pixel aspect) then encode an MPEG making sure that the encoder knows that u r trying to create a widesceen output.
I'm not FCP expert but i do edit videos from time to time and am well versed in the specifics so the details might differ but the basic idea is the same.
- bmacneill0
thanks for your help!