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dvd settings
Hi chaps … Hope it’s OK I’m going to post this in the dvd forum as well ’cause the workflow I’m struggling with spans both areas … I have a sequence of stills that I’ve brought into Ae and treated, zoomed, panned etc. No video at all. Rendered as a qtime animation codec upper field first (and, as an alternative; no fields) at 720×576. I then dragged them into toast to make a DVD and tried iDVD and also DVD studio pro (I’m not very familiar with DVDSP so need to double check the myriad of setting combinations)and burnt a DVD-R in my G4. I think I’ve covered all of the options/variations but the thing looks like c&*% especially on a tv monitor. I’ts just a plain old DVD, no chapters nothing … I just want to send it to some friends so they can put it in their DVD player and it will play but the thing looks like it has real field issue problems … playback is quite smooth and the audio sounds good but there seems to be terrible field flicker … anyone any thoughts. Please be assured I’ve searched and searched the archives but nothing seems to strike home.
Best Roger
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Well, are your colors broadcast safe? Is your DVD player configured properly? What transcode settings do you use? Most likely all of the tools you have simply produce crappy MPEG-II because they are so cheap and their automatisms don’t cut it…
Mylenium
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Sorry Mylenium I’m not sure how ‘safe’ colours would affect what appears to be a field order problem but yes they are safe. The DVD player is not under my control (I will be sending the DVD) the transcode settings are, more or less, fixed in iDVD and Toast but I am pretty sure I have set them correctly in DVD Studio Pro and what are ‘automatisms’? … Are you saying that unless I spend mega-bucks on a hardware encoder I cannot make a usable DVD ?
Thanks for your time … Roger
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[Roger BURTON] “Are you saying that unless I spend mega-bucks on a hardware encoder I cannot make a usable DVD ?”
No, of course not. But the lack of control over data rates and vector matrices may be a contributing factor to your problems as they produce more block artifacts, making it more noticable. I find that most factory settings of such tools operate with way too low data rates and other poorly tuned settings. Anyway, unfortunately I’m no Mac guy and I’m really not qualified to give you more advice. I hope you can sort it out and someone will chime in.
Mylenium
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Thanks Mylenium … good of you to follow up. Roger
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