[V]

Hi,

My movie is an animation movie, shot with a DV camera and edited in FCE 2.

I've exported the movie to a quicktime file using FCE and imported it with iDVD (a 2 gigs file) then burned it.

The DVD works but the shots where the camera moves (5-6 shots only) are very choppy. Also the colors are very dreary. I experienced this when playing the DVD with the G5, I didn't tried it on a regular TV-DVD yet.

The movie has to be presented to a university teacher (master's degree), I'd like it to be top notch. I could always rework (blast) the colors so they appear a little bit better but I don't have a clue what to do with the camera.

Do you have an idea want is wrong ?

Thanks for your time

Frank

[k_munic]

as a quick reply:
control quality allways on a TV!
a Mac's monitor is… "too sharp" (totally different resolution), handles colors differently and has no interlace (therefor, has to interpolate).-
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sounds to me, you have done everything right… aah: what format you chose for exporting? You wrote "quciktime file", that's not a compressor, just a wrapper… what were your settings? probably, you did choose the wrong compressor…

what sort of animation was it? painting? clay-anim? real objects?

[V]

It's clay animation, with some real objects.

I've done another DVD and the camera movements are ok now. I've used Export-->using Quicktime conversion instead of quicktime movie. (self contained again).

The colors are still plain, I try to ajust them manually.

I've notice another problem, there are some lines during my transition affects, I did not figure how to remove them. Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll post updates later if I found something.

[stevesnj]

You may need to De-Interlace those choppy clips then try it again...I know FCP has De-interlace under Video filters but dont know if FCE does.

[Spoffo]

There's a tremendous difference in quality depending on which codec you use in exporting from FCE. In my experience the most consistent good results come from going to "Export using Quicktime conversion" in the file menu then selecting "DV Stream" from the pull-down at the bottom of the dialogue. (This lets your DVD program - - Toast or iDVD - do most of the compression work.) I've also had good results using the "animation" codec" and "DVC Pro". Some of the others produce horrible results when converted to DVD. Also, the best codec to use varies a bit with the specific type of project.

The best approach is to set in and out points for a short (3-4 minute) selction that is typical of your piece, then export it using several different codecs, convert each into a DVD disk image (much faster using Toast 6 than iDVD) and examine these using the DVD viewer. You should be able to find one that shows your particular project to best advantage.

[V]

I've managed to get pretty good quality using DV streams, Thanks.

For the colors they are better, but still different from those I get in the computer screen. I think I buy a TV to see the results in real time.

Thanks a lot for the help.