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Hey All,First off, I tried searching the forums for an answer to this and did not see anything relevant to my question. If I managed to overlook it, I am sorry and would appreciate a link to the thread.I am using FCPX 10.1.2 and am finalizing a video for a client. I need to create a gold master DVD for them to send off to the replicator, and I am hitting a wall creating the DVD title menu. The built in tools are pretty rubbish if you want to do anything custom and I haven't been able to find a good solution.I basically need to be able to create a DVD with a customized menu including chapters. I need to be able to create my own background image and import it as well. I seem to be finding software that lets me do one of those things but not both.
Is it possible to import an.img file to a program so the chapter markers are preserved or will I need to re-specify those and import an.mov file instead? Can you suggest what software I should use and how I should export my project from FCPX into the program?Feeling a bit lost and would love some advice. Thanks so much! I personally haven't used anything other than iDVD (iLife '11) for years, should the need arise, even though I'm more than capable of working DVD SP (as a former trainer).
It is THE easiest and fastest way to make an all out customised DVD at max quality, without the - IMHO - way too convoluted, overblown feature set (for what one needs 99.9% of the time) and handling of apps such as DVD SP or Encore.Check Ebay or an old Mac and get it for a few bucks or even for free. Set the project to 'Professional Quality' and simply drag'n'drop your way to a nice looking DVD.:)BTW, if it's to be played on a BD-player, you can use FCP X to make what I call a 'Mini-BD' disk. Which is an HD version of your movie burnt onto a regular DVD-R as an AVCHD clip.
Only you're limited to around 30 mins. And playback only works on a BD-player. I'm in the same boat. FACT: 95% of my consumer clients want DVDs and BDs. They want something physical in their hands. Even if its a digital copy on a flash drive.I'm just starting in FCP X coming from Sony Vegas.
Vegas came with DVDA and was easy to make customized menus with chapter stops etc. I even use Encore CS6 for more upscale DVDs and BDs. FCP X has nothing in the way of DVD creation that I would give to a client. So I too need a good solution for creating great looking DVD menus etc.Ken BennettVideo AdventuresCapturing Your Life's Adventures! Hello, Pierre -Just yesterday, I finished a 1hr 16min video in FCPX. I exported the master file using a 'Compressor Settings' destination that I created in Compressor and added to the destinations list on the 'Destinations' tab of FCPX Preferences. This destination compresses video to H.264.
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My video has 12 chapter markers.I then launched iDVD and dragged in the video. Although iDVD creates the Chapter Menus with a link to each chapter and the video frame associated with each Chapter Marker, it does not bring in the text that I defined for each Chapter Marker. (It began losing the marker text around Mountain Lion, I think.) I typed in the text for each Chapter Marker, added background music to each menu, and burned the disc. Unfortunately, iDVD failed; it displayed a 'Multiplexor Error' message.This happens to me on about 10% or 20% of my iDVD projects. IDVD transcodes all of the videos and menus, but when it gets to the 'Multiplexing and Writing' step it dies. Sometimes, this happens before it actually writes anything to the disc; sometimes it happens part way through the burn process, and the resulting disc is a coaster.The best solution I have found is to re-compress the movie in Compressor, using the same settings, and then recreate the disc from scratch in a new iDVD project using the new movie file.
(If I simply drag the new movie into the existing iDVD project, iDVD messes up all of the chapter links. IDVD is nice enough to warn you that it has done so:-)).While Apple and Adobe think that optical discs are dead technology, clients still want them. I have been searching for an iDVD replacement for several years, without success. Disc creation apps on the Mac App Store are junk, IMHO.
None of them handles FCPX Chapter Markers properly.If anyone finds a good replacement for iDVD, please inform the community of your find. Hello Bill,Thank you very much for your reply!Everything that you describe happens to me!And I handled to make a DVD with iDvd, mostly the same way you do.1.- Export film from FCPX to Compressor2.- Did a ProRes export with chapters (put some noise reduction and black level options)3.- iDVD did see my chapters but not its names and images4.- Try to burn without success5.- Create a new iDVD project with the same file and it worked!Yes, Apple and Adobe may think that dvd is dead, but it is not! Not everyone has bought a Blu-Ray and it's still an easy way to share productions.
Youtube is a good one, but you can not always have HD and USB drives are still too expensive and they don't show well on a shelf or desk.Again, thank you for your input and waiting for a good replacement to iDVD!Best regards,Pierre Souchar. I'm new to iDVD, and I like the menus, but it wouldn't take my file generated in FCP, because it was over 2 hrs long. I was trying to get it onto a single layer disk. It took it, if I changed the setting in Profile Info to Double Layer. Only problems are that I don't know if everyone my client is distributing them to has a dvd player that will handle double layer disks, and the processing company requires an order of 300, and I probably only need 200-225. I've gone back to using Premiere Elements 13.
The menus aren't great, but ok, and you can actually make them dynamic. It's serviceable, and I've wasted too much time already trying to make iDVD work or trying to find an alternative that's as nice. I'm disappointed, because I really liked the menus on iDVD.
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