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Fields, rendering both for DVD(TV) and PC (web)?
Hey guys…I’ve read alot about the two subjects and understand the concept, but here’s my question and I’ve like some opinions.
I’m rendering video that is played back on both TV (DVD), Printed back to tape (mini DV), and also played on web sites. My question is should I render out first as a uncompressed, no field QT. The from there render out compressed for the web, then when I want to go to DVD should I render to fields??? Or does Encore when encoding to DVD render the fields to the uncompressed QT? It gets confusing. I guess what I’m asking is should I use the uncompressed, no field rendered file as my master? Am I making any sense, haha!?!?
Thanks,
Todd
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This piece I shot in mini DV NTSC, so it already had footage with a lower filed order.
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There is never any situation when you must render to fields.
However, for the web and CD-ROM, you must *not* render to fields.I’d use a QT MOV rendered “no fields” to the Animation codec as my master, then (your mileage may vary) use Squeeze to compress to the web, and Compressor to compress to MPEG-2 for DVD.
And I wouldn’t add fields to the master, since there’s no need and nothing would change anyway. -
Great advice..Thanks! I have been rendering completely uncompressed for about a year to all my videos making for some huge files. I have been using Premieres Pros encoder to do my web compression and have let Encore encode for DVD…which takes forever.
Thanks Steve!
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TMPGEnc is a very fast and good enocder, which I use for web (MPEG-1) and DVD (MPEG-2) it has some great tools and with 2-pass VBR some very impressive results. There is a free version and also a very cheap pro version. Kicks the @ss off Encore and PPro’s encoders for me. Do a google search for it.
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