importing DVD

[Hector Berrebi]

Hi Marianne

what settings did you use on mpeg streamclip?
and to what did you transcode?

was the DVD encoded straight from the original materials? or were there more encodings along the way?

what was the original material shot on?

most likely you will not be able to recover the original quality or even get close (depending on how demanding you’ll be) DVD’s are very compressed

you could try capturing from a DVD deck with component out to a FCP system with proper capture card, and set the capture to prores SD

some cards (AjA) are famous for decent looking uprezing from SD to HD, probably better than you could get by software

Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting

[Jerry Hofmann]

Most all of us are using MPEG Streamclip for the transfers… and it does a pretty good job of it all depending on how good the DVD was in the first place… it’s a garbage in, garbage out situation here. It can’t get better than what the DVD contained in the first place, but it should preserve most of that quality. Try choosing ProRes as the codec for the transcoded files for sure.

Describe “Dreadful”…

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[Jim Curtis]

[Marianne Souliez] “even while preserving the 720×576”

So, this is PAL? If not, use 720 x 480 in MPEG Streamclip. To preserve quality, export as Animation 100% or ProRes HQ. Enable Lower Field first, and leave the other settings alone.

You didn’t say, but if this is a DVD with Macrovision, that could account for the “dreadful” results.

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