m2v re-export PLEASE HELP!

[Eric Monroe]

Marc, I am not sure as to why you would be having quality issues in part of the video and not other parts.

I can however tell you that in adobe encore you can import the .m2v (mpeg2-dvd) into encore and have it treat it as one linked file. I do all of my edits this way….because mpeg2-dvd will carry the chapter markers from premiere’s timeline over into encore.

right click in encore’s project panel
import as “timeline”
select both the audio and video files in the import window at the same time.
click open in the bottom right of the import window (or “ok” cant remember off the top of my head)
encore will import everything into the proj. panel

(you will see a total of 3 icons in the proj panel for what you just imported. the video, the audio, and encore makes one for the timeline, double clicking the timeline icon will open that video’s audio and video in the timeline at the bottom automatically)
(also upon importing you should see the video thumbnail in the bottom of the flow chart window waiting for you to connect it to the appropriate part of your menu.)

i hope that helps you out, at least a little. As far as the quality issue, I am anxious to see if anyone else has the answer to that one. I have been using mpeg2-dvd for everything that i do for a few years now, and quality has never been an issue. maybe i have been lucky :o)

Eric Monroe

Shadow Studios

[Marc Thomas]

Hi Eric, thanks for the reply.

The quality looks fine in daytime parts of the movie, but some nighttime stuff, and some moving titles at the beginning look terrible. The titles look very jittery and some night shots of tree tops look really blurry.

I’m assuming it has something to do with the bitrates?

**So I’m trying to find the best quality settings for making the 4 GB m2v into a 3 GB m2v (approx.).

As for importing the audio and video into ENCORE… worked like a charm! Thank you for that tip!! 🙂

Marc

[Mike Velte]

Video quality degrades with compression. This degradation is acceptable when going from 25 mbps (HDV or DV) to 8 mbps (mpeg2 DVD). Your workflow then recompresses the video again, but the source and output are basically the same low bitrate and the degradation is going to be much worse.

[Marc Thomas]

Thank you Mike for that info. Makes sense.

I was given some info that it wouldn’t recompress because it was being exported as the same format… but I guess that doesn’t really make sense after all.

It’s just a shame that I lost so much data with my hard drive that got fried… and I don’t have the money for data-recovery.

I wish there was another solution, but I guess there’s not… especially since I’m also restricted by file size.

Thanks again for the reply everyone.

Marc

[Marc Thomas]

Out of curiousity, I was reading another thread that mentioned:

1) Videoredo.com
2) Edius Procoder

As software that could export without recompression… assuming they work… I guess they wouldn’t help me since I need a smaller file than the original video?

Just thinking out loud, but if anyone knows anything about these please let me know.

Thanks again!

Marc

[Mike Velte]

VideoRedo Plus allows for cuts only edits and then stitches the remaining clips together without recompression.