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Avid Xpress Pro 5.5 (DVCam/miniDV) to DVD
What method do you use to get your pics from Avid onto DVD?
any suggestions and experiences welcomed.
My current method is to export the timeline as a QT ref file and then load it into MyDVD.
On longer DVDs (30mins plus) I often get a glitch in the video – usually some way in to the video. This is unpredictable and there’s no way of seeing it until the DVD is burned. I don’t seem to have a problem on shorter videos (2-3mins) even if several shorter videos are on the same DVD. My guess it happens during the transcoding process.
Any other suggestions as to how to achieve the best quality DVDs would be appreciated. I don’t care if it takes a long time, just that the quality is as good as poss!
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Try doing a video mixdown, and making a QT Ref based on that, or export a self contained QT file. Those errors can occur due to a latency while processing the video, and you are right they can be fairly unpredictable.
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cheers, yeah, fraid that’s with video mixdowns. maybe its just a question of try try try!! – the problem is (as I’m sure everyone will understand) that for this particular project time is not an issue as its a personal project, but when I do my next long form work project it won’t be acceptable!!
if its not supposed to move use gaffa tape. If its supposed to move and it doesn’t use WD40
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Oh, I just downloaded a trial version of Encore (v2.0) to see if I could get the qt ref file in through that OK and it won’t even import – complains about the file’s resolution.
My avid project is 16:9 PAL, I don’t see what Encore’s complaining about unless avid saves a QT ref in some wacky format!
if its not supposed to move use gaffa tape. If its supposed to move and it doesn’t use WD40
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Your mileage may vary with Encore 2, but my experiences haven’t been overly positive when using it with the Avid/Sorenson combination. Previously (1.5), I’d export a mixdown QT ref, transcode with Sorenson, and import into Encore. This work famously for a long while. Once I upgrade to Encore 2, I started getting spurious “bitrate too high” errors from my Sorenson transcodes. Additionally, transcoding directly in Encore produces fielding issues. I’m a minute from downgrading to 1.5.
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Encore 2 won’t even recognise the QT ref file – it complains that its not the correct pixels (720×576 i seem to recall) despite those being the proportions I’ve outputted from Avid.
I’ve given up on Encore and am going back to MyDVD, just need to fix my aspect ratio problems…. see other posts!!
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