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Best Settings for burning to DVD with a Project that has Many Tracks
Hi Everyone:
I was able to burn my project to Blu ray and all went really well last week. Today, I burned the film on DVD (720×480) to show it to someone, and the sound was off, the color was not good, and I was getting noises and freezes. My project is 1920×1080, but when I select Render As, I keep seeing selections of different dimensions, mostly 720×480, but none of the project dimensions. When I select Quicktime, I can select 1920×1080, but most of the other settings do not give me those dimensions. Would anyone know the best settings for this size project (160 tracks), where I can get the quality despite the compression. My discovery is that when I select HD settings, the file is very large, and I would not be able to fit it onto a DVD (I use Double Layer DVD’s)
My overall objective is to submit to the festivals. My concern is that the viewer would not have the experience my audience had at my screening because of the heavy amount of compression when burning to DVD. Not the same quality either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best,
Debbie
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DVD is the lower resolution.
Grazie
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[Debbie King] “Would anyone know the best settings for this size project (160 tracks), where I can get the quality despite the compression.”
You should use the MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder with the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream template for the video. Then use Dolby Digital AC3 with the appropriate template for the audio but you probably already have this from the Blu-ray rendering. You can use the Customize Template… button to adjust the video template for better quality by selecting Two Pass option on the Video tab and set the Video rendering quality to Best on the Project tab. This will make the best use of the bit rate and resize at the best quality.
[Debbie King] “My concern is that the viewer would not have the experience my audience had at my screening because of the heavy amount of compression when burning to DVD. Not the same quality either.”
Yea, well that’s the difference between HD and SD which is 5x. It’s sad that film festivals are stuck in the 90’s with DVD as the only submission format. SD will never look as good as HD. Nothing you can do about it.
~jr
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Hi John and Grazie:
Thank you.
John: I remember in the past selecting the Architect NTSC Widescreen Video Stream, but I didn’t remember that it only had the 720×480 size available. For some reason, I thought it had options to select 1920×1080. I don’t remember typing it in. Is that what you do, or do you leave the size as is? Is the size smaller, so to accommodate the compression that is required to fit on a DVD? I tried another way and adjusted the size, and although my original project is a 21GB, when I rendered it, it still compressed it, but was too sizable for DVD.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Debbie, what’s the PlayTime of your video?
G
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[Debbie King] “For some reason, I thought it had options to select 1920×1080. I don’t remember typing it in. Is that what you do, or do you leave the size as is? Is the size smaller, so to accommodate the compression that is required to fit on a DVD?”
The DVD was invented in 1995 long before HD existed. DVD’s are NOT HD. You cannot type in 1920×0180. DVD’s are 720×480 and that’s as good as it gets. Do not mess with these parameters. They are set to be DVD compliant.
[Debbie King] “I tried another way and adjusted the size, and although my original project is a 21GB, when I rendered it, it still compressed it, but was too sizable for DVD.”
As Graham asked, how long is your DVD in minutes. You may need to use Dual Layer DVD’s.
~jr
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Hi Grazie:
It’s 1 hr and 39 minutes.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi John:
I am using a DL DVD for this project, because the compression shrinks it to 7.65GB when I render directly through Sony. When I rendered through Quicktime, it was even smaller, like 2.65GB.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi John:
This is amazing. I showed my film yesterday to some people in their home, and the movie had some issues. The cut wasn’t clean, yet in the software, the cut seems clean. What I discovered was when they dropped in a studio movie, the color was great and so was the sound. No changes, like what my film experienced. What do you think could be wrong, or do you think that the copies made for the studio were not compressed? They were copies made from HD. Wait, I just thought of something. Maybe the movie was in film. Your thoughts!
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Using a carefully constructed Template you can make a good DVD. I’ve got to 2 hours and they look fine.
Why are you dealing with QT if you want a DVD? I don’t understand? A DVD is of creating format and QT ain’t part of it, well, not the last time I looked.
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
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What settings are you using that a 1 hr 39 minute project is 7.65GB? That sounds like a lot. Make sure that you are not using a bit rate that is too high or else they may have problems playing it.
~jr
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