• DVD Authoring

  Making the best quality dvd possible

  Posted by Vasja Mihelcic on June 22, 2011 at 6:26 am

  Hello,

  I have a 9 min. of video exported in XDCAM EX 1080i50pVBR. What are the best settings possible to burn on DVD to get as much of full hd picture quality out. Are there any special DVDs on whom you can burn hdv video?
  FInal cut studio user.
  Burning the dvd with compressor.

  Cheers

  Vasja

  Jeff Pulera replied 10 years, 1 month ago 11 Members · 15 Replies
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  Vasja Mihelcic

  June 22, 2011 at 7:11 am

  I have to play with bit rates…but i dont know how high can i go, that i dont get like distortion of the picture. Now its, 2,39gb and bit rate 34,752 dimension 1920×1080 codec MPGE-2 VIDEO of 9 minutes of video.
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  Filip Kubiš

  June 22, 2011 at 8:06 am

  DVD is antient technology. Maximum resolution is 720×576 for PAL (16:9 it is 1024×576) you will not get more on a DVD to be playable on DVD players. DVD has its maximum bitrate waaaaaay under 34Mbit you used. Somwere around 8Mbit i guess. Please do use the Bitrate calculator down in my signature to calculate maximum bitrate you can give your DVD.

  I calculated it to 7,8 MBit CBR (with AC3 192 audio). I do not believe giving it more will be safe.

  This is the cruel reality of DVDs they use Mpeg 2 and are veeeeeery conservative. What is going to be the use of the DVD? If it does not necessarily need to play on DVD player but lets say a PC I would suggest you using digital standalone file such as H264 (x264) …

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  Vasja Mihelcic

  June 22, 2011 at 11:23 am

  Uff…but thx.
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  Michael Slowe

  June 22, 2011 at 11:44 am

  The advice on Bit Rates is generally agreed. I wouldn’t use Compressor for encoding DVD, I consider the best encoding software to be BitVice. That allows you to choose an average bit rate over two passes and it gives me very good DVD’s from my EX footage transcoded to Apple ProRes 422 HQ. If you have HD material why not make Blu-Ray discs and make the very best of your HD footage as you appear to want to do? Titanium Toast 10 or 11 does a great job with BD’s but you’ll need a stand alone BD burner (not expensive today).

  Michael Slowe
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  Eric Pautsch

  June 22, 2011 at 12:51 pm

  Just to be clear, Bitvice is the best encoder you can use on the Mac 🙂
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  Dave Haynie

  June 24, 2011 at 8:48 pm

  Actually, DVD is 720×576 PAL, 720×480 NTSC, max, whether 4:3 or 16:9. You might do well to start a PAL project at 1024×576 if you’re dealing with the world of square pixels and HD, since few modern video formats support rectangular pixels. But the resulting MPEG-2 to disc will always be 720×576@50i for PAL.

  -Dave
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  Phil Bates

  June 29, 2011 at 11:39 pm

  How does Bitvice compare to the encoder built into Encore? Is it possible to use Bitvice encoded movies in Encore?

  Thanks,
  P

  Phil Bates
  http://www.artbeats.com
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  Michael Slowe

  June 30, 2011 at 3:18 pm

  I believe that the Encore encoder is pretty good. You ask whether “BitVice encoded movies can be used in Encore” The question perhaps should be reversed because presumably you are encoding from Encore, not to it. BitVice is a stand alone application which accepts a file such as a QT .mov exported from a timeline and encodes to an M2V (for video) and an ac3 Dolby audio file. It also downscales an HD file at the same time. I then mix and format these files in DVD Studio Pro and burn the resultant .img file in Toast. So why go back to the edit application?

  Michael Slowe
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  Phil Bates

  June 30, 2011 at 3:38 pm

  Michael, thanks for replying.

  I am not sure I understand your post, so maybe I should back up.

  I am having difficulty with aliasing on DVDs authored with Encore. I was hoping that if I used a different transcoder, and imported those movies into Encore for authoring maybe that problem would be solved. (Since Bitvice is not a DVD authoring application, I presumed that I had to go back to Encore.)

  Thanks,
  Phil

  Phil Bates
  http://www.artbeats.com
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  James Reeve

  July 28, 2011 at 11:19 pm

  So may I just clarify something? One can store anything on a DVD, even HD footage at very high resolution (eg. 1920×1080). The problem is that standard DVD players can’t play it, right?

  So if our motivate is to reproduce our wonderful original HD footage as best as possible, there’s nothing we can do with DVDs that will produce better resolution and be playable on home DVD players (even if it is only a 10 minute video, and there’s plenty of room on the DVD for it)?

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