HD to SD DVD with multiple formats.

[Cal Thorley]

I guess so. I’d really prefer to leave my already stressed system minus windows though!
If it’s at all possible to get a good result with OSX friendly applications.

[Cal Thorley]

Well, a bit of an update.

I’ve downconverted all the short films separately to SD ProRes. Most look ‘ok’ but a couple are proving to be problematic and doesn’t quite add up. Both I believe were shot on an old Panasonic HVX202 and although the master looks fine in ProRes, when I downconvert to SD it looks really blocky.
Out of interest I’ve converted to a 1920 x 1080 square pixels pro res my end just in case there was something weird going on with the 1440 stretch, and also while that looked ok in HD, that too looks awful converted to SD. If anyone has any ideas?

I’m now in the process of trying to compare a DVD encoded straight from HD ProRes master (2 pass VBR, 7.1 target, 8.3 max, best motion, and best everywhere in frame controls) with the same settings from the SD ProRes version. Will see what I get.
The HD encode is saying 10 hours for a 4 minute clip!!
And annoyingly, the tutorial advises to set anti aliasing to ‘6’ but I get a “failed” everytime I add an aliasing value. I’ve followed lots of advice, uninstalled and reinstalled FCS (and in the process stuffed up all my I/O drivers, plugins, etc!) but no luck. I actually suspect it’s too much for my old Mac Pro.
So I may be compromising that encode anyway.

If anyone has anything to say regarding BitVice, I’d love to hear it?

Thanks a lot again for the advice.
Cal