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Finished DVD plays great on CRT but not on LCD w/built in DVD??
Hey Guys,
I had a HDV 1080 60i timeline with ProRes codec. I export self contained, into compressor best settings. Onto DVD SP, plays awesome on little 15 inch CRT. Pop into a Toshiba LCD 22″ with built in DVD player and it appears as “interlaced from hell”. Is their a flag I need to hit?
Everything is top field first and Media Info Mac confirms my minished mpeg 2 file is as well.
Help!
Edit – I tested another DVD made by another company and it looks very smooth, like mine, in the CRT and also looks smooth on the LCD. The other DVD is BFF (Bottom Field First), would that make any difference? I thought it was ideal for ethe DVD content to be TFF although it didn’t matter.
The DVD I made looks great, on the CRT!!
Edit – I should add that the DVD (BFF) that looks great on the LCD is 4:3. The one I am having trouble with is 16:9. I can’t seem to find the right setting on the LCD to play it in true 16:9. My DVD (TFF) plays letterboxed on the CRT with standalone DVD player.
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I should also add that the other day I had a SD timeline and made a dvd with bottom field first and that plays back nicley on the LCD and my CRT.
Could this be my problem?
How can I convert a ProRes UpperField First file into bottom field first in compressor. The settings confuse me?
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I just tested this out. I changed the field output to progressive and it plays great (3 seconds worth/5 minutes of render) on both the CRT and LCD. Media Info for Mac claims it is UFF, Upper Field First, but it is in fact progressive!
Dunno what happened before but my hunch is that the DVD player could not read it was lower field first, maybe it was DVD SP maybe it was me, who knows.
I have all 56 minutes set to render to progressive from the ProRes render of the HDV 1080 60i.
This appears to be a very high quality workflow. I will see tomorrow, by the time I am done rendering everything. Oh btw, this is on an 8 core too!
What is weird is that I have searched everywhere and read the Bonsai method etc and nothing really covered my workflow, which I thought was very common. If this works hopefully it will help someone else too.
Please let me know if putting progressive footage on DVD’s has unknown consequences.
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Ok, I finally had some sleep and I am thinking that the reason the LCD DVD player had a problem was because it simply treated the file as Bottom Field first.
The DVD played flawlesly on the other DVD player and CRT.
The progressive plays flawlessly on both because if their is a field mismatch it just, doesn’t matter.
So is the flag that is set in the file to specify UFF or BFF must not be set correctly to ensure 100% compatibility.
I am thinking about taking a HEX editor to the resulting *.m2v to see what the flags actually consist of.
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