Premiere pro/canon XL2 anomaly

[Malcolm Neakl]

well my hope is that I can work on a local film industry just like we have local theatre industry. If people are willing to pay £7 then £2 for a dvd is much more likely to get bought. Especially when its a community project and shot in the local area.

I use H264 for my own use since its such a small file, it goes up on youtube for display purposes.

As a DVD I capture in Pro, and edit there, then export to Encore, using pro’s export>encore facility.
That process has given me pants quality.
What I’m trying to get at is what process should a 30 minute video go through to look its best on dvd through encore.
are there other software based compressors that I should use that will be better than the ones bundled with pro and encore CS3. I have the option of getting rhozet carbon coder after christmas. Will its MPEG2 compression be better than pro/encore?

plus im wondering if for future recording I record directly to drive, does my output cable choice affect quality eg s-video , rca, or bnc. I noticed Fire wire live capture is no better a file than dv playback. Does the XL2 compress its image before it reaches every one of its outputs? I read a book by Scott Billups where he talks of capturing straight off the ccds.

and in my exp to all who have missed me previously saying this every 720×576 export I have ever done that has not got square pixels is squashed.

sto pro veritate

[Malcolm Neakl]

lol, Jeff I’m opening up the question because though you are correct about DVD and DV it doesnt cover the way anomalies I experience as my screen shots show. I took your advice and these are a result. Both yourself and mr Sacci suggested a PAR that hasn’t worked for me, and no one seemed to be explaining why.

As I hear now its that a 1024 wide image shot on 960 pixels and is squashed to a 720 pixels on dv tape (so that vertically there is no quality loss), but the image im supposed to see is still 1.0 PAR so any other aspect either adds black bars or leaves the image squashed.

sto pro veritate