MPEG 2 for DVD

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Many possible answers. Your best bet is to go to either COW’s Vegas Forum or our DVD Authoring Forum.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg

[Yoondo]

[Y.D.] “Hi, I would like to know the difference between rendering straight to mpeg 2 from Sony Vegas versus converting(compressing) quicktime with animation codec using Procoder for PC then output to DVD.”

Let me rephrase that, I would like to know if mpeg 2 rendered from uncompressed tga sequence files are as good as quicktime movie (animation codec) compressed (converted) to mpeg 2 for DVD output to play on a standalone player.

Thanks a bunch.

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Y.D.] “Let me rephrase that, I would like to know if mpeg 2 rendered from uncompressed tga sequence files are as good as quicktime movie (animation codec) compressed (converted) to mpeg 2 for DVD output to play on a standalone player.”

That still sounds like a Q more appropriate for the DVD Authoring forum. 😉
Actually, alot depends on the quality settings you provide for the movie when you use the Animation CODEC. The said CODEC is only lossless qith a quality setting of 100. Anything less, theoretically results in some qualitative loss from the original content.

Uncompressed TGA’s are good, which is why broadcastGEMs uses them. 🙂 Being uncompressed, they’re definitely better than the Animation (with a quality setting of less than 100).

HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
broadcastGEMs
customizable animated backdrops with Adobe After Effects project files

[Yoondo]

Thanks for the reply Roland.
I will post it in the DVD authoring forum to see if I can more detailed answer.