Export to DVD from Davinci Resolve 12

Can anyone please help me here?
We have made the migration from Final Cut Pro 7 to Davinci. So far we are loving the new application. However we still are making DVDs for our clients. We can't work out a workflow to export from Davinci with chapter markers. Is there any way of doing this?

Cheers
Woody

No. You'll need a DVD authoring software.

Hey Peter,
I am stuck in the exact same position... did you find an answer?

Charles.

Get yourself copy of Toast if you are on Mac. Export ProRes, feed this to Toast and done.
There is no way to do it out of Resolve.

Thanks, I do have and use Toast for smaller projects.
The nice part about using FCP 7 Chapter markers was that you could tag the file in the NLE, produce a single ProRes file and the burning/authoring package would "chop" the DVD into the chapters you indicated way back in the editing process.
But, since even Adobe have turned their backs on DVD production, I guess everything has to be a compromise now - sigh

Thanks again for your help.....

Charles.

On PCs there are solutions, including free, but Mac is not really DVD friendly

Resolve is a grading programme with editing aspirations, not a 'swiss army knife' style NLE so I don't think Resolve even knows what a DVD is. I usually Export a DPX Master file of every production we make with separate .WAV Audio Master and use third party tools to make DVD's, BluRays, YT/Vimeo uploads, etc.

I make them in Apple compressor. Works really well. What I haven't tried is converting to ntsc during resolve export. Might have better result than going HD>ntsc>mpeg2 all at once in compressor.

Mac is VERY DVD friendly. DVD Studio Pro, or Toast or Final Cut Pro X all do a great job.
I have not had a request for a DVD for a few years.

[quote=I have not had a request for a DVD for a few years.[/quote]

neither have i till the other day ;-(

frankly i really don't see the point especially if the client (or at least his client) is demanding shooting in hd and then complaining of the quality hit going to sd - apparently it's for a gov. dept that's stipulating dvd, (NOT blu-ray either) and in the hands of, yes, an mba...

my kludged workflow is export as mxf or dnxhd to either dvd arch or tmpgenc master works and do what's necessary.

re mac - can't be that dvd friendly if there isn't a drive

Mac is dVD friendly. They don't build a drive in because not many people still use them. If you want one you can buy a very good apple drive that plugs in and works very well. I prefer that to paying for a piece of equipment I might never use.

Also, Toast will burn a DVD that is a sort of hybrid blue-ray that will play on a BR player (or playstation) and looks about as good as a genuine BR disc.

And I occasionally get requests for DVD, so who am I to judge how my clients want my work presented?

You have 3 solutions for Mac and few times more for PC including free ones, so I call Mac not DVD friendly

I assume FCP X, Compressor+ Toast is enough for todays demand.

An external BluRay burner was cheap and good. I can burn quick & dirty from the Finder or fully authored in DVD Studio. It's a fun process because it's so easy.

An external BluRay burner was cheap and good. I can burn quick & dirty from the Finder or fully authored in DVD Studio. It's a fun process because it's so easy.

Agreed, Peter. That's the best way to burn BR discs for the highest quality..

I call Mac not DVD friendly

What they are is definitely not BluRay friendly. Definitely seeing the traffic in DVDs going down, though, in favour of "streaming" assets. But still making them, mostly for traditional broadcasters and public agencies, government, educators, &c. Big job early this year with multiple-language subtitles and chapter-enabled study guide. Tried doing it in Encore 5 - what a nightmare. Finally worked when I moved the project into version 6 after Adobe "Support" told me that they no longer support DVD authoring at all. Thanks so much.

The Apple Compressor4 approach actually works very nicely for making simple play-only screeners.

From the early days of exploring BluRay authoring, at least my work-around to get a consistent disk was to generate element streams in Compressor, author in Encore6, export an .iso, and burn the physical disks with either Toast or Primera PTPublisher. So, at least 4 applications (not including subtitles or captions) to get one working result.

Anyone else wondering about "Ultra" BluRay? Seems like... way too much, way too late.

jPo

You cut my sentence and changed its meaning:)
On PC you have way more choice, but as I said at current demand Mac choose maybe good enough also.

There is really nothing at the moment for UltraBD below 15K$ (for authoring itself)- all PC. We may never see anything at prosumer level at all. Maybe some open source solutions on PC.

I know exactly what you are trying to do. I do work for the government and they always require a dvd, and in some cases, VHS. Yes, VHS. *shudder*

In FCP7 I always put my chapter markers in there strictly for convenience because I had them in the file in case I had to change them later... after they finished deliberating and running the video through the committee and I finish the 1500th change to the product. I wish Resolve had chapter markers as it would help me regain hours to my life.

I tried to put chapter markers in using compressor, but in the new version of Compressor they removed the "save" so I can't save the session like the old one. Grrrrrr. It also crashed a lot when I put in markers so I gave up on it.

I ended up buying a program called "Chapter Writer" (it's in the app store). Does the same thing with the markers as Compressor. Still can't save the session, but doesn't crash. Put in the markers and export to new file. Import into iDVD and all the chapters are there. No problem. It's faster than DVD Studio Pro for me as the client doesn't care about customizations on the DVD menu (good enough for government work, right?). I simply just need to get it on DVD with chapters and need to do it quickly. The real bummer though, is that after I export it out, if the client needs a change, I have to reindex the chapters all over again ( sigh it would be awesome to keep them in my project like I used to in FCP7 )

Being that I do government type work, I have purchased a couple extra DVD usb burners and a stock pile of blank DVD's. They take FOREVER to upgrade media types so I suspect I'll be burning DVD's for 10-20 years.

Surely it is not just about DVD's? Maybe my workflow is different to most? But I need to export my ProRes Masters to INCLUDE Chapter Markers so that I can provide my clients with m4v files - and of course the odd DVD. This was always so easy in FCP.

There is nothing wrong with providing chapters as timecode in txt or csv file.
Resolve is not a product for your needs.
You cause eg. Edius which will have DVD output and can export chapter markers if I remember well.
Premiere also supports chapter markers in MOV.

Not sure why people so hard try to use a software which is not for their needs ( I assume fact that Resolve is free is probably the reason).

If FCP worked well then stick to it. Tons of DVD related software is now way outdated and requires old hardware.
Whole pro market quite often uses old machines as almost no one maintains DVD related apps anymore.

Why not stick to FCP? If you have it, you don't need to pay every month like for Adobe's stuff.

I used iDVD on my old iMac the last time I had to deliver a DVD. It’s still on that iMac Retina 27” Late 2009 currently using Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Shortly I’ll be updating to Lion 10.7.5. I was planning to go to Sierra (10.12 I think). Does anyone know if Sierra still supports iDVD?

Don't know about iDVD, but with Apple's Compressor, you can still add chapter markers and even make a DVD.

Thanks, Uli. Good to have alternative solutions.

I think it can add chapter markers while passing video through if you don't want to encode to MPEG-2 at the same time.