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HDV and DVD Studio Pro
Hi,
Hope someone can help?
I’m editing a film at the moment (length 80min) and made a DVD last night in DVD Studio Pro, exporting my sequence from FCP.
I used the ‘Best Quality 90 minutes’ setting, which hasn’t let me down so far, but was shocked at how bad the quality was? It also took about 5-6 hours to encode.This is the first time I have been working with the HDV format incidentally.
Also I shot the film progressive on a Sony HVR-V1U and a Canon HV40, my capture codec was 1050i.
Is there a trick to getting a nice looking DVD converting from HDV?
The movement seemed strange also on the DVD I had made, definately something is a miss.
Hope someone can help
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3 Replies
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[Steve Sale] “I shot the film progressive on a Sony HVR-V1U and a Canon HV40, my capture codec was 1050i.”
If the footage was shot as Progressive why did you edit it as interlaces?But for better quality try sending the sequence from FCP to Compressor directly.
FCP Export (with Compressor) or FCP7 Send (to Compressor)Use a CBR encoding instead of the VBR method.
Use 7 Mbps for the bitrate and use ac3 for the audio.Do a test with on 10 minutes of the sequence with the most movement in the video.
The send to/export with takes longer to encode but the CBR method offset the encoding time and it should give you a much better encode from HDV.
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Hi Michael,
I was told that the particular camera’s that I used were progressive in an interlace frame, therefore are interlaced.
Yes I was sending sequence directly to DVD Studio from FCP.
Maybe I could try CBR, with a higher bit rate, although I think something else is really a miss!
Thanks for your help.
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USE framecontrols. Resize filter to BEST. Or your downscale will suck.
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