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Best Picture Quality?
I want to get the best picture quality out of my HVX200. I shot some test video in Video Cam mode, 1080 60i to a FS-100. The setting on the FS-100 was DVCProHD. I imported the footage into FCP 5.1 and placed it in a DVCProHD 1080 60 timelime. The clips did not need to render. I exported the video using compressor. The setting was the DVCProHD 1080 60 setting under the advanced settings. After the export I brought the video into DSP4 and tried to burn. I got a message saying video bit rate too high. So apparently I am dooing something wrong. I don’t have an HDDVD burner I am burning in SD. What do I need to do to get the best picture quality possible? I work on an Intel G5 FCP 5.1.1, DVDSP4 and QT 7.1.2…any suggestions?
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5 Replies
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Export to current settings, self contained, audio and video.
Drop that into Compressor, and elect a m2v/mpeg2 setting consistent with the length of the video in total minutes.
Elect the Dolby2 settings for audio.
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Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
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Since your DVD will be in SD, do yourself a favor: drop the HD footage into a SD sequence (no DV codec, rather uncompressed or Photo-JPEG@75%) and let FCP to the scaling (set the scaling quality in the render settings to high).
Render and export the sequence as a referenced file and then drop it into Compressor with a proper preset (as described here). It’ll be much faster and excellent quality.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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Uli, do I want to export using one of the Advanced Format Settings like uncompressed 8/10 bit or an HD uncompressed or one of the DVCProHD settings, or do I want to use Best Quality 90 min 16:9?
Thanks for your help!Scott
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Don’t export in Compressor at all, that’s slow. Export a QT movie after setting the timeline to one of the codecs I mentioned. Uncompressed 8 bit can’t hurt, 10 bit is overkill. The QT movie doesn’t need to be self-contained.
I suppose you want to burn a DVD that can be played in todays SD players, right? So just use the best settings for the duration you have. That’s all.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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