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HD to SD DVD
What is the best way? Please Help!
We produced a HD documentary and now releasing it on SD DVD. We tried encoding with Bitvice (which usually gives us GREAT results when we are in SD land) and this time results were not so great going from FCP reference file (HD sequence, DVCPROHD 1280×1080) to bitvice. Lots of scaling issues. We contacted the president of Bitvice and he said that with current BitVice 1.6 we will not get optimal results, unless we scale down to SD first. But with BitVice 1.7 (that is coming soon) there will be several options for high quality multi-pass scaling algorithms.What should we do now, we do have a deadline and can’t wait for the new version of Bitvice?
Try Compressor? Anyone had good luck with Compressor going from HD to DVD? What settings would you recommend,
Please help!Vlad
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Yes, try Compressor but be sure to export directly from the Final Cut timeline. In other words, don’t use a reference file. Use EXPORT>COMPRESSOR in the menu.
What is the total length of your project?
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Hi Jeff,
it’s a 52 min show.
And you had good results going from HD to SD DVD using compressor? -
I don’t work with HD but I can offer these two facts:
1) I’ve gotten good results going directly from and SD project
2) I’ve heard that it works just as well with HDSo no, I don’t have any experience with it but I think it’s worth your time to try it!
At that lenght I’d suggest a CBR compression around 6.0 (just a guess, I don’t know your content…be prepared to try it again if it’s too big or too small).
You should open up the “90-MIN Best 16×9” preset that’s in there and duplicate it. Look at the settings and see what they are (I can’t check where I am). I’d start with that one and modify it. Be sure to watch for any of the widescreen or anamorphic checkboxes. (That may all be taken care of in DVD Studio Pro…but check here, just in case.)
You can also make your AC3 audio files from here too. The “Dolby 2.0” setting does that.
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