Compression for Cartoon DVD

[Daniel Low]

Try changing the settings.

Seriously, if you can’t tell us what you have already tried in terms of encoding settings, how are we going to be able to give any useful advice?

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[Trent Diggity]

So far I’ve tried
DVDStudio Pro’s compression, I dont think settings can be altered on this but I could be wrong
Adobe Encore – same deal.

After getting bad results I took my movie into compressor.
From here I tried these two defaults
120 Min DVD Best Quality 2 passes
90 Min DVD Best Quality 2 passes

when that failed to give desired results, I upped the mb/sec to 7.7

[Daniel Low]

You can change the settings in DVD SP – check the preferences.

Please tell us about your source content:

What’s the frame size and frame rate?

What format/Codec did you use to export it from AfterEffects?

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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”

Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009

[Trent Diggity]

Source content is 30fps, 720×486. Animation compression out of after effects. I’ve viewed it on a professional monitor and scope, It looks perfect before going down to mpeg2. In the encoder section of compressor, I’ve pushed the quality as high as it will go – 7.7mbs.

[Daniel Low]

[Trent Diggity] “Source content is 30fps, 720×486. Animation compression out of after effects”

It looks like you made one very common error, you’ve rendered out a square pixel project to a non-aquare pixel frame size and this will be degrading the picture quality some what. You should have rendered out at 640×480 Square pixel

Additionally, are you using CBR or VBR, 1 pass or 2 pass in compressor?

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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”

Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009

[Craig Seeman]

I’ve had some personal bad experience with Animation codec files as source. Sometimes exporting out of After Effects in 8 bit Uncompressed will hold up better going to MPEG-2. I can’t say that’s the issue with a certitude but it’s another think to try in addition to Daniel’s observation.

[Trent Diggity]

I’m using VBR. I’ll give the square 640×480 a try now. I’ll let you know the results.

[Daniel Low]

I’d also try CBR while you’re at it.

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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”

Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009

[Trent Diggity]

So I tried going to the 640×480 square pixel. it actually made the problem a bit worse.
I haven’t found where I can change to CBR, wheres that located?

[Daniel Low]

In the same tab you change the bitrate, in the inspector

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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”

Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009