HDV to DVD question

[Daniel Low]

[marc dejesus] “for example, the DVDs i buy seem so much higher in quality then the DVD’s i make.. “

That’s usually because the commercial titles are shot using much higher quality formats than HDV. Adobe media encoder is not bad at all with MPEG-2, what settings are you using, there maybe ways to improve your output.

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[Marc Dejesus]

thanks for responding…

for short videos. i usually do CBR at around 7

and for long videos, I do VBR 2 pass.. and tweak it depending on the length…

are there any other programs available that would output better than AME? for example does sorenson or even compressor hold any advantages??

thanks

[Daniel Low]

Sorenson no. compressor on the other hand has far superior scaling and deinterlacing options, but these can increase your transcode time hugely.

You might want to look at Cinemacraft for compressor for the ultimate.

https://www.omni-cinemacraft.com/products_cinemacraft_encodermp.shtml

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[Marc Dejesus]

thanks for the info.. is there anything on the pc side you can recommend

[Daniel Low]

Ah, as you mentioned compressor I assumed you were on the Mac.

On Windows you could consider Procoder or Episode, both are excellent. Or CinemaCraft standalone if you have the time to invest in learning it.

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