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MPEG 2 compression problem
Hi, I was wondering if someone could plaese give me some advice on MPEG encoding in Premiere Pro CS3. I’m using the standard MPEG 2 DVD when exporting my movie (which is made up of PNGs 1024 x 576), the problem is its just compressing my movie way too much.
Even when I shrink down a single PNG image to 720 by 405 they still don’t look as bad as when converted to MPEG format. Even when I export it to MOV from Aftereffects its still not as compressed, but i need to keep the MPEG format for a DVD.
My movie is only 1 min 40 sec,roughly 50mb I’ve got 2 other things to go on the DVD which come to about 800mb all up, so I’ve still got 3.9gb unused which I’d rather use to maximise the resolution of my movie.
I could increase bit rate but apparently most DVD players can’t handle higher than 9, surely there must be some way i can get better picture quality? -
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What are your export settings?
Tim Robinson
tim@erobinsons.com
Pride-Mobility-Products
Corporate Video Editor -
My export settings are: MPEG 2 DVD encoder, PAL 720 x 576, 25 fps, quality 5, VBR 2 passes, video codec Mainconcept MPEG video, widescreen 16:9, min bitrate 1.5, target bitrate 4, max birate 7.
I’m just gonna have to live with it I guess, the problem is it looks fine on my computer but on our 40″ LCD looks pretty crappy. -
If your movie is so short, you should go with CBR instead of variable. Set your rate at 7. 4 is a very low bit rate and having it go through VBR will create lots of artifacts on dissolves.
Also try progressive scan output for your LCD.
Tim Robinson
tim@erobinsons.com
Pride-Mobility-Products
Corporate Video Editor
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