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    DVD Compression advice

    Posted by Lee Burrows on October 6, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    I have a project that shot and captured in HDV. We then edited out the rough cuts in HDV then recaptured the footage in DV(720X480) through the HDV deck. It looks good in the sequence.

    I have a decently compressed mpeg2 for DVD out of compressor2 using the best quality 90 minute 4:3 selection in compressor2. I tried one with the GOP setting to IP and a CBR(NOT the VBR settings) setting of 9.0 mb/s. To my surprise the quality seemed to be worse. My goal is to get the best possible non-pixelated image and etain as much of the HDV/DV quality that is my sequence.

    I do have 3 or 4 beta shots in the sequence that came in as a photo-jpeg(720X486) codec.

    Is Compressor2 the best way to go or should I try Bit Vice? We are going to show the DVD on a wide screen TV. I am working in FCP 5.0 on a G5.

    Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks

    Lee

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    Dual 2.0 GHz
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    Chris Poisson replied 20 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    October 6, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    [Lee Burrows] “setting of 9.0 mb/s.”

    That bitrate is way too high for a DVD. 7.0 Mbps is the highest bitrate you should ever use.

    DRW

  • Lee Burrows

    October 6, 2005 at 4:17 pm

    Thanks!! I’ll try that.

    G5 Mac OS X
    Dual 2.0 GHz
    FCP 4.5 HD
    XServe Raid 1 Terabyte

    G5 Mac OS X
    Dual 2.3 GHz
    FCP 5.02 Studio
    G-Tech G Raid 500 GBs
    2 – Lacie Drives 200 GBs

  • Jeremy Garchow

    October 6, 2005 at 4:27 pm

    Why would redigitze and encode from even lower quality DV instead HDV? Just curious. You can send out the HDV using a 16:9 setting and set your crop or letterbox in DVD studio pro, whatever you need.

    Jeremy

    ———–
    G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2

    ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

  • Lee Burrows

    October 6, 2005 at 4:50 pm

    Unfortunately, I had to do this to match the graphics which were 720X480 and we had a few NTSC Beta Sp clips of 720X486.

    Lee

    G5 Mac OS X
    Dual 2.0 GHz
    FCP 4.5 HD
    XServe Raid 1 Terabyte

    G5 Mac OS X
    Dual 2.3 GHz
    FCP 5.02 Studio
    G-Tech G Raid 500 GBs
    2 – Lacie Drives 200 GBs

  • Chris Poisson

    October 6, 2005 at 5:19 pm

    Lee,

    This article is really good. Pay special attention to section 4.

    https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_warmouth.html

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