HD to DVD

[Shane Ross]

If you use DVD Studio Pro…you should use the DVD BEST QUALITY presets in Compressor.

Other than that, there’s not much you can do. HD at 1920×1080 burned to DVD is now 720×480. There will be a LOT of quality loss. This is why it is HIGH definition. It won’t look anywhere near the quality of the original HD. Some DVD players can upscale well (BluRay ones can)…other than that, you are relying on the upscale abilities of the TV, and the quality of that depends on the model of TV…but most are not good.

Shane
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[Brent Dunn]

Transcoding to quicktime may be part of the problem. What are you using to author your DVD? If you use Encore, you can just let Encore do the transcoding for you.

What is happening is you are transcoding to one codec and the DVD authoring software is transcoding it again, further degrading your images.

Brent Dunn
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DunnRight Films
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[Noah Kadner]

Make sure you downcovert to 16:9 720×480 before encoding to MPEG2. Otherwise the downconvert/MPEG2 at the same time will result in quality loss…

Noah

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Featuring the Panasonic GH2 and Panasonic AC160/130.

[Kristine Halmrast]

Hei, thanks for your respons. I´ve used DVD BEST QUALITY in Compressor…, still looks bad. I haven´t tried Encore yet, I should try that.

Thanks!
K

Kristine

[Kristine Halmrast]

Thanks Brent, I´ll try Encore! 🙂

K

Kristine

[Kristine Halmrast]

Hei, Noah.
I´ll try to convert it 16:9 720*480 then MPEG2.
Thanks!

K

Kristine

[Kristine Halmrast]

Hei, again Brent.
Encore does a better job, but I still have some nasty lines in the movements. I don´t know too much about Gop settings and Bitrate settings. Could you help?

My source video exported from FCP using current settings:
1920*1080, 25 fps, Lower, Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ), Linear PCM, HD (1-1-1), 48 HZ Stereo.

In Encore these are my export choices:
Video format:
*Mpeg2-DVD (I can´t make it as a BluRay, so I´m guessing this is right)

Basic Video Settings:
*Quality: 1 – 5 (which should I choose?)
*Field order: None(progressive)/Upper/Lower (which should I choose?)
*Pixel Aspect Ratio: Standard 4:3 / Widescreen (which should I choose?)

Bitrate Settings:
Minimum Bitrate: 1,5 – 9 (which should I choose?)
Target Bitrate: 1,5 – 9 (which should I choose?)
Maximum Bitrate: 1,5 – 9 (which should I choose?)

GOP settings:
M Frames: 2 – 8 (which should I choose?)
N Frames: 10 / 15 (which should I choose?)

Audio Settings:
128 / 160 / 192 / 224 / 320 / 384 / 448 (which should I choose?)

And that was a lot of questions, but hope you can help! 🙂

Best Wishes
Kristine

Kristine

[Noah Kadner]

Just remember- it’s a two step process. First downconvert to SD 16:9 ProRes. And *then* use that as your MPEG2 source. Do those two at the same time- i.e. 1080p ProRes directly to MPEG2 will result in much lower quality. Scaling and MPEG2 encoding at the same time- at least in Compressor is not the way to do it.

Noah

Call Box Training.
Featuring the Panasonic GH2 and Panasonic AC160/130.

[Kristine Halmrast]

Hei Noah,

I gave up, and are now trying a different process. Creating a VideoTS and AudioTS folder from the HD1920*1080 material. The plan is to burn it through Toast as VideoTS / AudioTS folders.

In DVD Studio Pro I get these options when I choose Build/Format to harddrive:
-IMG, creates HVDVD_TS folder with BUP/IFO/ EVO files: VLC / QT player won´t recognise it.
-DDP3.00, creates DAT/XML files: VLC / QT player won´t recognise it.
-CMF creates DAT / XML / BUP / IFO / EVO files: it runs through VLC & QT player, but with a flickering image (though with good resolution) and strong buzzing in the audio.

Through Encore I can´t seem to get the Timeline to be 1920*1080, it just scales it down to 720*576 automatically.

I don´t know if you´re used to Encore / DVD studio Pro, if you have a different suggestion on how to create VideoTS / AudioTS folder from HD material, please let me know 🙂

Thanks a heap!

Kristine

Kristine

[Shane Ross]

You cannot make HD files and put them onto a regular DVD. It doesn’t work that way. If you are burning a regular DVD, it MUST be Standard Def…720×486. The HD DVD preset you are finding in Compressor is for a format that lost the HD DVD wars. BluRay won out. If you want to make an HD version of a DVD, you need to get a BluRay burner and use toast to make a BluRay disk. Then the people viewing will need BluRay players.

If you are making regular DVDs…they must be encoded as 720×486. As Noah suggested, going to SD first, THEN making the DVD will give you the best results.

Shane
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