• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HDV to SD DVD

  Posted by Jonathan White on September 17, 2005 at 4:13 pm

  Hi,

  I’ve read a few threads on this topic but can’t seem to find a satisfactory answer. Trying to make a 16:9 SD DVD out of a HDV timeline.

  I export with compressor and make it in DVD Studio Pro but always get interlaced/motion problems (strobey stuff??).

  I have the field set to top first etc. but no joy. Any definitive advice? I’m working in PAL.

  Thanks in advance,

  Johnny White

  Jonathan White replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Spdntckt

  September 22, 2005 at 8:44 am

  Johnny –

  I had this problem as well – What i found was that i needed to do three things to get a qualiy output in SD from HD source.

  1) Set compressor to LOWER field dominance.. i know HDV is upper.. but that setting didnt work for me in compressor 2.. lower worked fine

  2) set the GOP setting to IP. This was more of a tweak which got much better quality (at least for the material i was encoding)

  3) DONT use any VBR setting. use the CBR setting and use as high of a bit rate as you can (in my case i could use 7.5mb/s since i didnt have a very long movie – only 26 mins).

  let me know how that works!
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  Jonathan White

  September 27, 2005 at 10:12 am

  Thanks for the info. will try and let you know how I get on.
  Johnny

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