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exporting madness
I’m trying to export my HDV movie onto a DVD. I’ve spent forever now trying to find the best way to not loose quality. and I finally found a way. Using compressor 2 I made it export to an MPeg-2 6.4Mbps 2-pass 16:9 m2v. it also exported a seperate audio. so I tried putting it on dvd. idvd wouldnt accept. then toast let me combine the two files. but i cant get dvd players to watch it. only computers. it says disc error….[what’g going on?]. if exporting it this way wont work, how should i do it?
it seems like mpeg-2 compressor is the way to go because simply converting to quicktime movie lost a ton of quality.
maybe it has something to do with putting it into 2 different files after the compression. -
2 Replies
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Try exporting as a DV movie, then take that into iDVD.
Tom
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You will lose quality no matter which way you slice it on DVD. It is a crap format. Truly better than VHS but nothing like DV, HDV or uncompressed. It is a trade off of space on the disc vs. length of the video. Sounds like you made a system stream Mpeg-2 file on DVD. Computers will play them but I have yet to find a DVD set top box to do it.
Hopefully you have iDVD 6. It is set up for 16X9 and HDV. It is not the “best” quality Mpeg-2 but is where you most likely need to start. The thread above is right on. If you have DVD Studio Pro, more power to you. You really need DVDSP to get the maximum of what compressor can give.
Hope this helps-
Matthew
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