I recently bought a DVD burner for my PC, but I edit on Final Cut Pro
on a Mac. I have a project I edited awhile back that's saved as an
Final Cut Pro movie file that I'd like to make a DVD of now, but the
DVD software (Nero Vision Express) only takes AVIs.

Usually I just save to AVI through FCP or Quicktime, but this time
the video is two hours long and when I try either method it takes
four hours to convert and it gives me a file that's about the same
size (25 Gigs) but is only the first four minutes of the video.

I downloaded TMPGEnc and it seems to work really well for mpeg
encoding on the PC (you have to ignore the poor English in the menus)
but I'm still not having any luck with the Quicktime.

The problem I'm having seems to be with Quicktime on a PC, it looks
like crap. I mean an original Quicktime DV file viewed with Quicktime
for Windows, not post mpeg compression. It's as if I'm looking at a
low res proxy version. This is the same file that looks great in FCP
on my Mac.

If I convert these files to AVI on the Mac using Quicktime or FCP,
those files look fine on my PC and they convert to Mpeg fine for DVD.
The Quicktime files converted to Mpeg with TMPGEnc still look awful.

This two hour video just will not successfully convert to AVI on the
Mac. (because it's too long? maybe?) I think I'll try saving to Divx
from the Mac next.

Has anyone else noticed this Quicktime problem? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Don