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Canon XHA1 and best quality for outputting a DVD.
Hi.
I’ve currently shot a short film using my Canon XHA1 in 1080i. I have successfully uploaded it into FCP in HDV 1080i firewire basic. After editing using motion and FCP i exported the file by clicking, File>Export>Quicktime. Kept the settings as current setting and self contained movie.
After this, i’ve imported this into compressor, and compressed it using the Codec labelled DVD best Quality 90mins. I have also tried exporting it using H.264 but DVD studio pro could not open the file, but i’ll tackle that hurdle at a later stage.
Now making the file DVD menus etc, i’ve burnt the DVD, and when watching the quailty back, its seems a lot more grainy, but playback from the tape is crisp… any ideas of what i should do.
Thank you all in advance. 😀
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5 Replies
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Two things. H264 is not a codec that DVD Studio pro wants. All SD DVDs are mpeg2. That what you used when you selected the correct compressor setting.
Secondly DVDs are standard def so of course it will look degraded from your HD master. I don’t see any particlur problem with your workflow, except trying to use an mpeg4 (H264) file in DVDSP
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Mugermach,
HDV is pretty good acquisition format but terrible for editing. You are much better off capturing to ProRes, or, changing your settings to ProRes before your final output from FCP.
It is also better to edit in 1080i (if you didn’t) and let Compressor downconvert it, short of having a Kona card.
I have this camera and this workflow and my DVDs look fantastic.
Have a wonderful day.
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Hi guys, thanks for all the info.
If i was capture to pro res, would i use the setting HDV-apple intermeatie codec 1080i50 (using pal and not NTSC). and then export it as i am currently doing?
I’ve recently hooked up at HD Tv to my computer for the output and using that for the colour (cant afford a real broadcast monitor), im finding things looking a lot better now but rendering takes a long time.
I currently have a 8 (2.8G) core with 4 internal terabytes and 6GB of RAM, need to upgrade the ram. -
let me know how yo went….
i have an xha1 and i am digitising and creating dvd for first time on hd.very much used to sd.
think i made the mistake of setting my capture preset to HDV instead of Apple Pro res….
would be great if you worked it out and could give me some pointers….cheers!!
What Now?
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[Brydie Sheen] “think i made the mistake of setting my capture preset to HDV instead of Apple Pro res…. “
You can’t just set the preset to ProRes, that’s not the way it works — read this tutorial https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
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