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Sony-HDV timeline output to DVD related
I have a short 20min high-motion HDV video project that is done; well, sort of. I haven’t had to output HDV to DVD related files for use in Encore before and, as such, am wary of the quality issues I’ve heard and read about in the down-convert. Might I just say, this all seems to be a big pain in the bum. I have the whole production suite so if the “right” way to do it involves one of the other programs then it’s no biggie, but here’s the question:
How can I output a file that plays at great quality in SD from the HDV footage and what are the specific PP2 output settings best for this work.
Please don’t waste my time and yours by jabbering about special codecs and different, non-Adobe crap, ’cause the very next step after this is Encore’s transcoding anyhow. Oh, and I’ve worked with SD for years. I’m just trying not to waste precious render time with the HD side of things.
P.s.
I just watched the BBC presentation of the “Planet Earth” and it’d be awesome to find out how they encoded that disc. The picture is crystal clear down to the minutest detail in SD and there’s 3+ hours of footage on each DVD.P.P.S.
For those about to freak out about me “not doing a search for this type of question”, I have; Nothing matched within my need or context. I do searches often. I’m not new to COW, and I don’t appreciate worthless badgering. If you don’t have an answer that is relevant, don’t reply. -
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Hope this helps with what your asking. What you’ve read is true, Adobe’s encoder is not up to scratch with other encoders out there. However constant bit rate or CBR is always best, it is only 1 pass but the value is constant giving you a closer representation of the original files. Author to DVD and it should go straight to M2V file which is accepted by encore with no need for transcoding. Audio is as usual. Hope that’s what your asking. With adobe encoding your image will lose it’s detail and quality.
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Ah crap, that’s what I was afraid of. It’s too bad that with all the cool stuff they let you make, they don’t give you a good way to show it to people too. Guess I’ll just have to deal.
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There is a problem in Premiere Pro 2.0 that is fixed in CS3. The video scaled down to DVD size from a HDV project is too soft.
A workaround to this is to import the HDV project into a SD project, open the original sequence (don’t nest it) and scale everything down.
I use the Cineform Aspect HD intermediate codec, so I can just export to Cineform HD AVI and import that into a SD project and scale it down. Much faster and easier.
In any case, CS3 fixes the problem. Not only that, it provides a way to author to Blu-Ray in HD frame sizes.
Steven
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The problem I run across in doing this is that:
(A) the video gets cropped for some reason, leaving me without the extra footage for re-sizing (it’s bizarre).
(B) when I re-opened the original project, the video files played with corrupted picture.
(C) I could only correct the corruption by importing the project into a new HDV project and opening it from there.Now I’m back to the beginning. I have 2T of space to work with at the moment so if I need to output the whole thing to tifs and resize from that, I can. It’s just a huge pain in the… Well, you know.
I can’t wait till I can personally afford the Master (of the universe) Collection. ☺ Yay, CS3 (are we suckers for re-buying the newer and better instead of demanding free updates to the current?)
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