[pstark1]

When I drag & drop my Quicktime file into Toast Titanium 7.0 and create a DVD image or DVD burn, the image quality is poor (looks like interlace lines or something every few frames). The Quicktime file that I start with does not have said lines and looks like a good quality. For the Quicktime file I'm trying to burn, I've tried various different compressions, as well as NO compression. The NO compression file - being the best quality file - looks good going into Toast, but the DVD image comes out with the interlace lines. I've tried various encoding options in Toast, such as "automatic" encoding, and "custom" encoding with "maximum" bit rates, best "motion estimates", never "reencoding", and every "field dominance" option available. Nothing fixes the problem. I've included a sample image to show what the problem looks like. Please help!!

[tsantee]

What is the source for the video and what is its resolution? If you take a clip from this video and use iDVD to encode it, does the problem still appear?

[pstark1]

I'm using Final Cut Pro to create the edited video file. The footage was shot on miniDV (Panasonic DVX100).

[tsantee]

pstark1, on Sep 13 2006, 04:25 PM, said:

I'm using Final Cut Pro to create the edited video file. The footage was shot on miniDV (Panasonic DVX100).

This is an odd problem then. If you shot the video as interlaced and edited in FCP as interlaced then Toast should have automatically kept the field dominance correct. I was expecting you to say that the video was imported from a MPEG 2-to-DV conversion.

I suggest searching the Final Cut Pro forum at discussions.apple.com. I received many links when using "interlacing" as my search word. Also, you might find something that applies at www.kenstone.net.

One thing I read was to make sure you are viewing this on an interlaced TV monitor and not a computer monitor.

[pstark1]

Just realized I'm trying to resolve two different problems here.

1) My FCP export to Quicktime is interlaced unless I use DVC Pro / NTSC compression. There should be a way to export to Quicktime using other compressions and not have the interlace. I'll search the Apple forums for this problem.

2) I created a DVD disc image and burn from a Quicktime file. The QT file was fine, but both the DVD image and DVD burn disc had a problem with the image/audio skipping or jarring about every 3 seconds. It's fairly subtle, but obvious enough to be annoying. When I originally created this image and DVD, I was using Quicktime 6.3. I've since updated to Quicktime 7 but have not tried creating another image. I suspect that updating to Quicktime 7 may have fixed the problem? ...or am I off base here?

[tsantee]

pstark1, on Sep 13 2006, 10:22 PM, said:

I suspect that updating to Quicktime 7 may have fixed the problem? ...or am I off base here?

Toast 7 requires QuickTime 7. I don't know how you were able to use it otherwise. So hopefully that will be the cure.