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MOV to DVD
Am I wrong or is it a myth that a 720×480 quicktime will transfer cleanly to DVD with proper compression? No matter how much I finesse my compressor’s VBR, the titling always ends up stairsteppy and images are slightly blurry — am I wasting my time trying to recreate the clean look of my original quicktime just so I can hand over a media disc the grunting client can understand, put in machine, and press play?
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“Am I wrong or is it a myth that a 720×480 quicktime will transfer cleanly to DVD with proper compression”
It’s perfectly possibly to do. You’ll need to give us a lot more information about your source clip and the setting you are using before we could figure out why the titles look bad.
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thnx for getting back paul –
the clip was created in after effects (just graphic elements in motion, no imported video)
720×480
square pixels
dur 10 secs (when i’m done with the project it’ll be 2-3 minutes long)rendered as lossless mov, 72 megs total
(also rendered as mpeg2-dvd on another try)imported into encore
transcode setting ‘ntsc dv high quality 7mb vbr 2 pass’
the build results in an 8 meg fileviewing the output w apple’s dvd player looks fine when viewed in actual size – makes sense – but i need something to look sharp full screen and this isn’t adequately scaling up – am i wrong to start off at 720×480 in after effects?
thnx again
mike -
Err, my name isn’t Paul, but anyhow…..
720×480 is a non-square pixel format. You should be rendering out of AE as 640×480, if the project is 4:3.
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daniel! sorry
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