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exporting 1080/50i from avid MC5 to DVD (encore)
hey there,
i’ve captured an HDV project using a sony deck and firewire,
the footage looks quite good on avid.
i finished editing and coloring the project in avid and now my life became a living hell.. (sorry for the drama)i need to burn a DVD – i tried so many different ways and i always seem to get a DVD with less quality, less contrast and color and overall – less than a regular sd dvd with sd footage.
thats the first qustion – whats the best workflow??second, how can i export max res HD file for my client?
thanks so much for taking the time and helping a friend in crisis..
ben.
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5 Replies
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Ben,
What are you using for encoding? I use Sorenson Squeeze and get a good looking file for DVD authoring.
Regards,
Joe Womble
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hi joe,
thank you so much for responding..the last workflow that kind of worked for me was
video mixdown, export same as source to sorensson and export
as mpeg2 pal 2 pass between 8 to 12 mbps..from there to encore cs5 which transcodes the mpeg2 again…
the final output was ok, a hugh loss of colors, contrast and depth.
has to be a better way.
ben.
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Ben,
When you encode in Sorenson, what codec are you using? Do you know if the codec is set for RGB or 601/709? This can affect the look of your output.
Have you played back your file after encoding but before authoring? Is there a chance that Encore is encoding a second time?
Joe
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There’s a setting in the MPEG2 settings when you scroll down that you check to indicate the source media is 16-235 RGB range and won’t touch the levels. Many compression applications assume all sources to be full range 0-255 and will apply a constrain to the result.
Michael
Michael Phillips
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Rather than letting your DVD creation software re-encode what Sorenson has already compressed, I would recommend letting the DVD software just do the compression once, assuming it understands the codec you are exporting from Avid. Also, while you can put HD content on an SD DVD it will still take a Blu-ray player to play it back and it would have to be a pretty short file, so I am assuming you are downconverting HD content to SD, which is obviously not going to look as good. If you are capable of writing to Blu-ray disc I would recommend that, especially if the client can view it on Blu-ray, which would solve your other issue.
I am having the same issues with delivering HD content to clients for them to view. It seems like the best bet for a tiny file that still has great looking HD footage is H264, but the issue I have run into is that my clients don’t have software and/or hardware capable of playing back H264 smoothly. Sorenson will compress some great looking tiny H264 files though if you haven’t tried that yet.
jeff g
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