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professional quality dvd’s by amateur users – and soon!
I haven’t found any answer to my questions in the forums (eventhough I am aware it has a lot incommon with other peoples questions about quality and burning dvds) and would be increadibly greatful if someone could find the time to consult me. I am writing this for my girlfriend who is a wonderful artist, but totally lost when it comes to computers (as am I)
She has made two movies, using a Sony DCR VX2100E Pal camera (Pal because we are Swedish). They are short films, 14 minutes long and 5 minutes long, and she has edited them some in Premiere 6.0 (we are aware there are newer versions but this is what we had). She has been cutting parts away and changing places, she has also brightend some of the clips up a bit, she has let the sound fade in and out in the begging and end of the films, and inserted blackscreens; she has not used any other effects.
We have rendered her first movie and using cucusoft avi to mpg and mpg to dvd we have made the first DVD copies. These copies are ok, and filmfestivals have accepted them as screening copies and liked it, but we are thinking they could be better and that they need to be better when shown on a big screen. One of the movies has to be (as) perfect (as can be) when screened at a gallery only seven days from now!
This is the computer:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP2000+
1.67 GHz, 512 Mb RAM
40Gb disc, empty discspace 3Gb (can throw stuff away if it would make any diffrence)Burning with: NEC Dvd rw nd 3500AG
We are also aware this is not a super good computer, but could that really be the problem? It works, it doesn’t freeze or shut down or anything like that. I have gotten a copy of Premiere Pro 7.0 and we are going to install this to her computer as soon as we have rendered both the projects, and made copies of the avi’s, incase the computer gets confused with having two versions of Premiere installed. With 7.o we are planning to Export to DVD, the plan is that high quality settings there should give us better quality that the cucusoft thing?
In another tread I read that 3,6 Mbs is conscidered very low quality. Ours is in 3,55MB per second. We imported the material from the camera trough firewire and we thought it was uncompressed! Why do we have this bad 3,55? Is it because our Premiere version is old? The guy in the other tread who had 3,6 Mbs seems to have more trouble with his final dvd’s than we do; his had lines and distortion in them (during clips with special effects like picture in picture), ours are like an old VHS tape (not super sharp, but not messed up). His 5 minute long avi was only 50 MB, ours seem to be big enough, RIGHT? Below is an exmaple of the properties of one of the clips:
File Size: 426,15MB bytes
Total Duration: 0:01:59:20
Average Data Rate: 3,55MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,067
Frame Rate: 25,00 fpsAudio: 32000 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
AVI File details:
Timecode: 00:00:00:18
Reel name: ‘001’
User Timecode: 00:00:00:18
Reel name: ‘001’
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).Video track 1:
Total duration is 0:01:59:20
Size is 411,30MB bytes (average frame = 145,62KB bytes)
There are 2995 keyframes.
Frame rate is 25,00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor: ‘dvsd’Audio track 1:
Size is 14,62MB bytes
Rate is 32000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bitsHere a 2 minute clip is 420 something MB’s, that shouldn’t be very compressed, RIGHT? I mean, that’s like a big clip, isn’t it?
If we export to dvd through premiere 7.0, and set the things to high quality will it be good enough to show? Or is the problem that you can’t burn high quality dvd’s yourself? Or is the problem that we have captured the clips in a compressed format without knowing it? If that is the case, there is no time to capture the original material again, to my Premiere 7.0 for example, or buy a newer version. There isn’t enough time to start the editing process of the raw material from scratch. So, what can we do to make the absolut best of what we’ve got?
If you have read the whole thing, thank you so much for your time! I am sorry if it was to long, I just don’t know which facts are important…
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU in advance Karin Drake
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Your AVI is probably fine. It looks good when you are editing and after you render? Then the problem is probably the program that is encoding the MPEG video. With Premiere Pro you can get a great MPEG2-DVD video using the Adobe Media Encoder. Your movies are short enough to use the maximum settings and simply use Constant Bit Rate (CBR). I think the maximum for most DVD players is around 8Mbps.
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
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Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5
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