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HDV sequence to SD DVD
I am very close to locking picture and sound on my music doc, “Rocking the Boat.” It was shot mostly in HDV 1080i 29.97. We brought in some HDCAM via Compressor. The project length is 116 minutes.
We edited in native HDV on FCP 5.0.4., with a G5 Quad, Kona LHe, and SATA raid.
I now need to go out to SD DVD via compressor and DVDSP 4.0.1.
I have been advised to export my sequence to 8bit uncompressed before doing the mpeg 2 encode for DVD.
Does all this sound sensible? And if so, are there field order issues or others that I should be aware of?
Thanks
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7 Replies
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DVDSP4 doesn’t re-encode HDV. Just import them in directly. See page 22 of the manual.
“everything is broken”
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You must export a self contained HDV sequence to DVD SP, it won’t accept a non self contained file.
Jerry
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Thanks guys. Almost home free.
Jay
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This is for an SD DVD??
The Mpeg_2 encoding step I’ve been doing in Compressor is unnecessary?
Where do you set the bitrate?Jim
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when I play the exported self contained movie in QT it goes out of synch. Any ideas? The original timeline plays fine.
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They are just saying that you don’t have to convert the HDV to 8bit first. Make a reference movie with same settings. Drop THAT file into compressor and do your bit rate settings. My latest caveat is that my freference movie file managed to lose its video/sound synch.
There is always one more button.
Jay
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oh, okay. Thanks for clearing that up
I’ve had good results exporting HDV self-contained, so that I have an HDV master file for potential future use, and using that in compressor. Haven’t had a sync problem so far.Jim
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