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Building the perfect DVD
Ok, I am in Motion and I want to create the perfect DVD. I have Studio Pro 5 so I am ready to go. Please share with me what are the optimal setting for a good quality DVD:
1-What resolution should I use to compose in Motion? The video was shot in HD. I want this to play on everyone’s DVD home player if possible but I do want it is HD.
2-What compressor Setting should I output these videos in?
Keep in mind I want a great quality DVD. I don’t want to spend hours compressing at the highest resolution if I don’t have to.
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Ok, I’m going to go ahead and assume you’re talking about making an SD DVD as opposed to an HD-DVD or Blu-ray.
Given the fact that your final DVD will be 720×480 in size, your Motion graphics need not be any bigger than that. However, this doesn’t mean that you should export your Motion project using a lossy codec like DV. Instead use the highest quality codec you can like Uncompressed 8 or 10bit.
DV codec is notoriously bad at handling gfx so stay away from it if you can.
Export a QT movie and then let Compressor do the MPEG compression. There are presets available for DVDs based on length of project.
Andy
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