Avid Export settings to DVD

[William909]

I have never worked with iDVD but with DVD Studio Pro I’ve found that exporting as a Quicktime Movie and clicking the “Same As Source” button works great (don’t use the Avid DV Codec). However, originally capturing your Avid footage at either mixed resolutions or at DV 25 411 often causes issues. You can do a video mixdown of your whole sequence to 2:1 OMF and then export it if you’ve captured as described above.

Good Luck,

Will Meyer
Sure Shot Productions, Inc.

[Jon Zanone]

If you’ve got Sorenson, use it.

I don’t work Adrenaline (MC Meridian Mac & AXP PC are my platforms of choice…), however, I’ve found the following through trial and error –

-Don’t use the Avid to export anything other than a QT Reference – and export it by right clicking the sequence in the bin, and select send to>encoding>(assuming you have Sorenson installed)Sorenson. Once there export native dimensions. Don’t let Avid do anything to your file. I have had absolutely no luck letting Avid convert my file in any other way than native dimensions.
-Make sure you turn off ‘auto de-interlacing’ in Sorenson. I don’t remember what version is which, but it’s either a little wrench at the top of the window, or you have to create a new filter and apply it each time.
-Once in Sorenson, start with a data rate of around 5000, and set your I-frames to 12. That will provide a good starting point.

HTH,
Jon

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