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H264 to PR to DVD? Or MPEG to MPEG is Good?
A client is asking me this: should they transcode their H264 720 version of a film I cut for them directly to MPEG2 in order to burn a DVD– or– first transcode to ProRes, then to MPEG2?
Their reasoning is, going from MPEG to MPEG can produce icky issues in the more dense and atmospheric scenes, as opposed to making a wonderful clean intra-frame ProRes which looks great, and working off that.
Yes, I know they can simply test it both ways, but is there a logical reasoning to support the intermediate step idea, of “starting from” a good-looking intra-frame file?
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Do you still have the master? What’s its format?
John
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Sorry! I forgot to mention the client is in Europe in a place with very limited access to internet bandwidth, on a very tight time frame and without local expertise. But they do have a Mac with FCP7.
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I’d definitely take care of all of that for them usually, but they are on the road.
Thanks for the confirmation that no benefit is to be derived from an intra-frame interim step.
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If there is not reediting or effects/graphics, to apply, there is not need to transcode to Prores.
Convert the H264 directly to MPEG2.
rafael -
No there’s no added elements, just a straight conversion. Thank you, could not figure out if interframe-to-interframe loses anything in a conversion.
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