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How to convert everything to 720×480 ProRes
Hello All,
So, plenty of people have advised that if I convert everything to 720×480 ProRes in my project I will get a better DVD output experience. But how on God’s green earth do I do it?
Just to recap, I filmed the work on a HVR-Z1U in the HDV setting. I imported the footage in to FCP7 at framesize 1440 x 1080 with 29.97 fps. The current compressor is Apple Pro Res 422HQ and pixel aspect of HD(1440 x 1080) with Upper Odd field dominance. When I export the film to a .mov (not self-contained – use current settings) the footage is magically clear and looks fantastic. However when I burn the .mov to (SD Single-sided) DVD-R using DVD Studio Pro it loses a lot of it’s appeal in terms of cramping and graininess on screen.
Please, please, please advise. Please.
Ronan
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why start a new thread, what did you try from the other thread.
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Roan “If I convert everything to 720×480 ProRes in my project I will get a better DVD output experience.”
I think there are two mistakes here:
Where you’re viewing things
What your workflow is.
First, you’re comparing the view of the QuickTime file with the final DVD. The QuickTime file does and should look better (it’s HD, and viewed at 100%) Please view your existing DVD on an actual TV set to see what the DVD looks like.
What your workflow is:
It sounds like someone said ‘make everything ProRes” to make the end product cleaner.
If you skip making the DVD from the QuickTime file and use the “Send to Compressor”, it should improve your quality.Here’s why:
Compressor will ignore any renders, utilize FCP and render directly in the output codec. In other words, there’s only one compression pass; anything synthetic (generators, imports) are all handled uncompressed.Here’s my guess at what is wrong.
I think you’re making DVDs by exporting a QuickTime and taking that to compressor.
In doing so, the QuickTime file is ‘flavored’ HDV – all your graphics, renders etc, are HDV. Then they’re made into an MPEG2 – that’s two compression passes – and the graphics/generators which were uncompressed were being compressed to HDV(mpeg) then AGAIN to MPEG-2 for DVD.See if that helps.
Best,
Jeff G
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Thanks Jeff, I’ll give that a shot … someone told about a Bonzai Method … can’t find it online … it must not be that popular.
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Michael, I tried t find out how to convert everything to 720×480 ProRes but to no avail.
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But I don’t think you read what was said, there is no need to get a 720×480 ProRes.
WIth your sequence’s compressor set to ProRes (not ProResHQ) export your movie as Current Settings and Self-Contained. Take that file into Compressor, use a DVD m2v preset, but in the Frame Control Tab, turn it on and set the Resize filter to BEST. Encode
I gave you more instructions in the other thread if you want to follow them.
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I’ll try again Michael and let you know how it goes … thank you …
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Hi Michael,
I set the sequence’s compressor set to ProRes (not ProResHQ) and exported the movie as Current Settings and Self-Contained.
When I opened the resulting .mov in Compressor, I couldn’t use anything other than the DVD mp4 option.
The Frame Control Tab was turned off and was not able to be set otherwise so I couldn’t set the setting within that tab.
When I tried bringing my (Apple ProRes) sequence straight into Compressor I was able to use a DVD m2v preset, turn on the Frame Control Tab,and set the Resize filter to BEST.
However, when I Encoded it, the results were dreadful.
R.
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