• DVD Authoring

  Resolution and codec question

  Posted by Bryce Conlan on March 12, 2011 at 12:03 am

  I’m starting in on a documentary and I would like to make it available on DVD. What resolution and codec should I be working in to maintain the highest quality in the final product?

  Daniel Ludwig replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Daniel Ludwig

  March 12, 2011 at 6:43 am

  bryce,to answer this, you might give us a bit more informations what should happen with your documentary.

  – which cam do you use for your shoots
  – will it go to cinema
  – will there be a BD
  – what is your budget
  – on what kind of system will it be edited
  – will it be a PAL or NTSC-DVD

  in general you could say: higher quality input will bring better quality in your output.

  so you might go uncompressed 8bit or maybe apple pro res HQ or 444 depending on your workflow.

  maybe you´ll have a offline/online HD-2K or 4K-edit with a big color-correction, so you might give us a bit more informations.

  cheers

  danny

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