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Eliot,
you are not watching your DVD in your computer? Aren’t you? You must play it in a interlaced monitor or TV to be sure that you’ve got interlacing problems.
If you are sure that the field order of the DVD is wrong, make a copy of the Compressor preset and change VIDEO FORMAT> AUTOMATIC (SD) by NTSC and set the “Field Dominance” to Lower (I guess your film is lower first).
Johnny, the quality of the .aiff is much better. I only use .ac3 if I have to put more than one audio or some times that I made very high data rate MPGs. In these case the data rate of the image plus the sound its make difficult playing the DVD properly.
Cheers,
rafael -
im watching it on a 62 inch dlp mitsubishi screen.
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That could be another problem. SD DVD don’t scale very well to HD TVs. I’ve seen some pretty good SD footage look like crap on an HD TV because it scales the image to match the pixels and doesn’t do a very good job.
You should try it on an SD TV and see how it looks as you continue to trouble shoot.
-Russ
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Well Eliot, I’ve just made a fast search in Google and have a look, and although it could sound stupid, but I think is too good machine for playing a SD DVD.
I would recommed you to watch your DVD in a cheap TV set. I read few threads of people complaining about how bad can look SD video in a HD screen.
So go and play it in the house of a friend in a domestic player. Is the best test.
Cheers,
rafael -
If you have to show it on that TV then I suggest upconverting your show using AE, Shake, or Compressor and then playing it off of an Apple TV, Xbox 360, or Playstation 3.
-Russ
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how would i go by upconverting the show??
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also, why would all of the old movies and stuff we watch on that tv look fine and not pixelated. It does look better on a small tv though, but i think because its a small tv.. lol.. how do i upconvert? I have shake and after effects.
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You should also be aware that Compressor is not the best MPEG-2 encoder out there. For superior MPEG-2 encoding on the Mac, check out BitVice. It is slower than Compressor, but the encoding quality is much better.
If you compress your audio as AC3 @ 192kbps and compress the video using BitVice dual-pass VBR encoding with a ceiling of 8.3mbps, your results should be better than what you’re currently seeing.
BitVice has a demo version, so you can try it out on a sample of your video before you buy.
MainConcept is another good MPEG-2 compression program that is better than Compressor:
https://www.mainconcept.com/site/?id=769
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So you are going to be playing it back on an HDTV using an Apple TV or something?
Shake is the way to go if you want to upconvert. I’m a little rusty with it and don’t have the time to dig in right now. It’s not exactly user friendly either. You could try After Effects first to see if you like the results. It’s easier to use.
The “old” SD DVD Hollywood titles look better than your DV 4:1:1 timeline compressed to DVD using preset setting in Compressor because they really know what they’re doing and have the tools to do it. And did I mention that they didn’t shoot their features on a DV 4:1:1 camera? That might sound a little brutal. Sorry.
-Russ
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hmm okay so if im pretty much screwed unless i upconvert… they people are coming here to see the video on the 62 inch screen.
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