Digital Commons at Penn State

Kate had questions about how to export from FCP to burn a DVD. I walked her thru the process. She took notes. And I showed her where the tutorial was on the DC www. She may need help Thursday morning. She's not sure if she'll finish tonight or not.

Digital Commons – Common Compression Settings

For another editing program or iDVD:
• From iMovie
1. Choose Share > Export Movie
2. Choose Large size to export
3. Pick where you would like to save your project
4. Type a name in the Export As box
5. Click Export

• From Final Cut
1. Choose File > Export > QuickTime Movie…
2. Make sure the options are as follows:
• Setting: Current Settings
• Include: Audio and Video
• Markers: None1
3. Check the box marked Make Movie Self-Contained
4. Pick where you would like to save your project
5. Type a name in the Save As box
6. Click Save

For ANGEL or the web:

• From iMovie
1. Choose Share > Export using QuickTime
2. Set Export: to Movie to QuickTime Movie

• From Final Cut
1. Choose File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion…
2. Set Format: to Movie to QuickTime Movie

• (continued) for both applications
1. Click the Options… button
2. Input these settings into the following categories:
• Video > Settings…
• Compression Type: MPEG-4 Video
• Frame Fate: 15 fps
• Key Frames: Every 75 frames

iDVD 7.0 is the standard DVD authoring program on all PSU Macs as of Fall 2008. The interface has changed slightly from previous versions and the media browser is better integrated to work with iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. This document will assist you with using iDVD 7.0 to author your edited movie to a DVD playable on any DVD player or computer with a DVD drive.

iDVD 7.0 Menu Workspace Interface
This is the workspace for the DVD Menu. You will do all your authoring, customizing, and testing via this interface

MENU WORKSPACE: This is where you edit and customize your DVD menu.
DROP ZONE: Pictures or Video added to a Drop Zone will customize your menu.
ADD BUTTON: Press to add buttons for movies, submenus, or slideshows.
MAP VIEW BUTTON: This button will display the map of your menu items and chapter divisions of your movie.

iDVD 7.0 is the standard DVD authoring program on all PSU Macs as of Fall 2008. The interface has changed slightly from previous versions and the media browser is better integrated to work with iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. This document will assist you with using iDVD 7.0 to author your edited movie to a DVD playable on any DVD player or computer with a DVD drive.

iDVD 7.0 Menu Workspace Interface
This is the workspace for the DVD Menu. You will do all your authoring, customizing, and testing via this interface

MENU WORKSPACE: This is where you edit and customize your DVD menu.
DROP ZONE: Pictures or Video added to a Drop Zone will customize your menu.
ADD BUTTON: Press to add buttons for movies, submenus, or slideshows.
MAP VIEW BUTTON: This button will display the map of your menu items and chapter divisions of your movie.

This Tutorial Will explain how to select and save your images, burn your images to a CD or send them too iDVD

1) First select Library from the options on the left to view your imported images.

2) Now you want to select your images, you can do this by holding down the apple button and clicking each of your images, When an image is selected it will appear with a blue outline.

3) If you want to save your images to your U drive, you will want to go to “File” and Select “Export.” Then you can just choose export, when you do iPhoto will ask you where you would like to save the files, Here you can choose your U drive.

4) If after selecting your images you want to burn them to a CD, go to “Share” and select “Burn” If you haven’t put a blank CD into the iMac’s CD drive iPhoto will prompt you for one now.

Exporting as a Video DVD with iMovie

Once you are finished with your iMovie project, you can export it in a variety of ways.
You may choose to export your movie as a DVD so that you can play it back on conventional
DVD players, computers, and other devices. While in iMovie, select “Share” from
the menu bar (top of your computer screen) and click on iDVD.

On most professionally made DVDs, a viewer can select chapters from the DVD menu, which are locations from which the viewer can start playing the film. Likewise, in iMovie 6, the user can set chapter locations for the current project. These chapters, with the project, can be exported to iDVD 6 by selecting iDVD from the Share menu. The chapters will then be available on the DVD disc.

To add chapter markers for iDVD:
1. While in the timeline viewer, move the playhead to the frame where you want to start a new chapter.
2. Click the Chapters button to open up the iDVD Chapters pane.
3. Click Add Marker. The new chapter will appear in the first row of the iDVD Chapters Marker pane, along with the timecode, thumbnail of the first frame and the chapter title.
4. Double click on the chapter title, and type in the new name of the chapter.
Note: Chapter markers appear in the timeline viewer as diamonds.
5. Select File > Save Project when completed.

Creating a New Project
After editing your iMovie 6 project, and setting chapter markers your project is ready for iDVD.
(Note: If you want a blank screen to start with, choose the reflection Chapters theme and you will get a blank gray background with no drop zones.)

A. Select Share > iDVD Project. B. Click the Share button. (Make sure that the Share selected clips only checkbox is not selected.) C. iDVD will open with your new project loaded into the default theme. Note: It’s a good idea to save your project immediately. To do so, go to File > Save As… and enter a name and location. Click Save.