720 24pn DVCPROHD footage to SD DVD How Can I achieve maximum quality?

[Shane Ross]

I export via Compressor and choose one of the DVD presets. If I am in a hurry, I choose the Fast Encode..if I want a great looking DVD, I choose the HIGH QUALITY encode. The thing with DVCPRO HD is that it takes a LONG TIME to do this. 50 min will take you about 5-6 hours of encoding. This is based on my Dual 2.0 Ghz machine. Faster machine, faster encode.

Man what I’d give for a Quad or Mac pro about now…

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Gary Adcock]

[Shane Ross] ” choose the HIGH QUALITY encode. The thing with DVCPRO HD is that it takes a LONG TIME to do this. 50 min will take you about 5-6 hours of encoding.”

Tell me you are rendering to fast drives? and Not to the drive your media is on.

I am ripping the same amount of content in a little more than 2 hours. (dual 2.5)
one array for the media and one for the DVD content.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

My DVD’s are available @
https://www.rastervector.com/dvd/dvd.html

[Shane Ross]

I am encoding it from my media drives to my secondary internal SATA drive, where I store my DVD files.

And you have a dual 2.5…against my Dual 2. Big difference there.

One of the things that REALLY slows it down is the need to add a TC window burn. When I nest the sequence and add the filter, it takes it about 1-2 hours to render that alone. Then the export takes another 8 hours or so.

But if I just exported a non time coded sequence, things go by a bit faster. 6-7 hours or so for 90 min. I forgot the part about needed to nest to get the timecode information.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Gary Adcock]

[Shane Ross] “I am encoding it from my media drives to my secondary internal SATA drive, where I store my DVD files”

I don’t know shane, but I am writing to fibre drives that are 3-4x faster than a single sata. I feel that is where I am getting the most performance.

Secondly –I always rip the file to out to a self contained movie file, prior to starting the compression process, in my working codec just to simplify the process.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

My DVD’s are available @
https://www.rastervector.com/dvd/dvd.html

[Shane Ross]

Since my footage lives on my SATA RAID, encoding my DVD to it wouldn’t be the way to go, right? You just said not to write to the same drives you are reading from. My footage lives on 2 G-Raids and my internal SATA RAID. SO I encode to the secondary SATA Drive. Is that not right?

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net