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1920×1080-SD
Quick question
Exporting 1920×1080 and hi res images (1920×1080 +) video from final cut pro to compressor.
We are just wanting a sd dvd so im using dvd best quality 90 minutes setting. I export a 30 second test run burn it to a dvd and throw it on the 50 inch plasma.
My client who is watching it swears up and down that the quality is not as good as it can be.
I double check the original file thats on my desktop and it tells me the m2v file is 720×404. Is there any way i can improve this?
He keeps comparing it to normal dvds that you can rent are only shown at 720×480 and they look alot crisper.
Thank you!
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6 Replies
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The 720×404 number is not real. QuickTime sometimes shows 720×480 files erroneously as 720×404. If you open it MPEGStreamClip or another program it will tell you it’s 720×480. If your client is talking about Hollywood movie DVDs, tell him yours can look that good too, all you need is a $100,000 camera, and a $50,000 hardware MPEG-2 encoder, and a salary and budget to take as long as necessary to make your blockbuster film look that good. In other words, it’s apples to oranges. Having said that, there are always tweaks you can do with software to help: you can play with color, saturation, contrast, and curves, etc., you can tweak the GOP, you can use a better software encoder than Compressor, which, while good, is not the best.
Ed -
Is there any way to create a preset in compressor that will export at 640×360 instead of the 720×404 that its giving me? That is my only guess to improving the quality to the max on an SDDVD since 640×360 is proportional to 1920×1080.
I’m trying to and i can make it and view it in quicktime pro but it will not import in DVDSP and it wont play in toast, it will burn but it turns out pretty crappy….
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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The spec for MPEG-2 DVDs is 720×480, which can be 4:3 or 16:9 (when flagged as such). If you want a 640×360, you would go with a QT H.264 or something else(which wouldn’t play in a set-top DVD player though).
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Hi Jordan,
If you want a good DVD from your HD movie, set the “Control Frame: ON”.
Otherwise you will get a crappy downscaling.
Don’t mess with the size. 720×404 is how QT display the clip. That’s correct.
rafael -
Hi.
As posted before let them look SD dvd on SD TV set and normal dvd.
Never on 50″ plasma etc. It would be like you look 72 dpi jpg on 24″ lcd scaled up 200% it is pointless.—
Margus
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Ok guys thanks aton!
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