Exporting 100% Best Quality

[Russell Lasson]

Very true.

[Russell Lasson]

Elliot,

Hopefully something out of this will be helpful. Sorry we got a little off the topic.

-Russ

[Shane Ross]

Yeah…sorry…debates like this happen on occasion. But they offer a bit of help at times.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Elliot Pollaro]

what compresser preset should i use when i export the 10 bit uncompressed from FCP?

And once i bring it into DVD studio pro what settings should i use in there also?

Thanks,

Elliot

[Rafael Amador]

When we render, it doesn’t matter the codec of our footage, we are expanding our image to 444. It doesn’t matter if we are with DV (411 or 420) when rendering we are calculating the RGB or YCrCb values of all the pixels of our image. If we go again to a 420/411 format, we are throwing away 75% of the new color values. If we go to 422, the 50%. The only way to keep all would be 444. But, 444 what for? All the video technologie has been developed with the capabilities of the human eye in mind. There is a point that where our eyes can not apreciate this extra information. So we would start to alk about econnomy.
ELLIOT, now you got your 10b Unc sequence. You can send to Compressor:
_ From the time-line.
– As a Self-contained movie.
– As A refference movie.
Your film is 43 minutes, so just drop “DVD Best Quality 90 minutes” (16×9, or 4×3, depending of your project) and .aiff. Let Compressor make the rest.
Cheers,
Rafael

[Jonathan White]

Reading this thread with interest. Just a question on the last bit of advice, when I’m making DVDs I invariably use ac3, what are the pros and cons between aiff and ac3 ( I assume aiff is bigger but better and ac3 is smaller but worse, but what about compatibility with players etc.?????)

Thanks,

Johnny

[Elliot Pollaro]

well the thing is after i send it to compresser and burn it in DVD studio pro some parts of my film are pixelated, and other parts have artifacts in it. I tried the best quality 90 minutes… i think that when i compress it in compressor or when i burn to a dvd all my video quality problems start… the video looks fine off my FCP timeline.

Elliot

[Russell Lasson]

What parts look bad?

One thing you can try is exporting a part that looks bad on the dvd from FCP again as a QT movie. Open it up in QT and hit command+J. Select the video track and then select Visual Settings and select High Quality in the lower right of the screen.

How does that file look? If it looks okay then it is probably your settings in compressor. Compression is an art and takes a lot of work to have it work right.

Still let us know what times of shots/graphics/or whatever look bad. Making a good DVD from footage that was shot on DV can be a real challenge.

-Russ

[Elliot Pollaro]

well that would be a lot of footage to bring into quicktime. A lot of our footage has artifacts and is jus pixelated.. i cant explain it… i exported it a long time ago and it looked ok now it looks worse.. the quality on my FCP timeline looks great. I have to have this product out Monday, i really think DVD studio pro or compressor is causing it.

[Russell Lasson]

You might try starting a new project and using just a couple of problem clips. Did the exported QT movie look okay when the high quality box was checked? When the clips are in the DV timeline, you don’t have to render them do you? (just thought I’d ask just in case)

-Russ