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  Best rendering and effects settings to SD DVD from a HDV source

  Posted by Jaanus Henno on February 19, 2011 at 11:17 am

  Hello.

  I have a Sony HDR-CX110 camcorder, recorded many videos, seminars with 1920 x
  1080/60i 17Mbps quality, but the results on laptop aren’t satifying for me, grainy indoor footage, croma out of balance, could be better sharpness. I want to get the best out of it and convert it to dvd size, since burning them to dvds might be required.

  So here’s the setting I’m using, could you please advise is there anything better I could do, either by internal or 3rd party tools?

  Project settings are set to PAL DVD widescreen, progressive scan, blend fields. Effects to enhance quality, basically chroma blur is the only one to get rid of the chroma disbalance. Colors can be tweaked ok with other effects.

  Here is my first dilemma. Interlaced picture shows sripes on laptop screen, but at the same time overall sharpness is better than using deinterlace blend fields (interpolate looks bad).
  So that I can overcome by KMplayer deinterlace filter, but better would be to have output material look nice without extra filters, since most others who will watch the seminars are not so sophisticated to tweak players. (And somehow Windows Media Player uses better codecs than KMplayer, cannot get the same quality in KMplayer.)

  So I guess I have to go with the deinterlace blend fields.

  Is there some nice sharpness filter for progressive, blend fields option? Somehow I cannot get any satisfactory results with Sony Sharpness effect. Some 3rd party tool?

  And second issue is noise. Before I was using Mike Crash’es DNR filter, that’s pretty good, but also lots of artifacts on motion and no 64 bit version, so cannot use it really. Is there something better out there also?

  What else can be done?

  Output is Constant bit rate 5800. But I have a good computer available, I’ll try vbr two pass, I know it’s better, but what should be the best bit rates for variable, having 1.30 hours fit to a dvd?

  Thanks for any help.

  Regards,
  Jaanus

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