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rendering HDV to mpeg 2
rendering out a 90 min feature shot in HDV PAL z1, captured native with FCP5 to make a DVD.
I like to see the best quality even with rough cuts. I’m using a g4 1.5 ghz, with 2 gb ram laptop. Rendering out using compressor 2 seems to take 60 hrs.
In compressor: mpeg 2, 90 min high quality 2-pass widescreen
video format is set at PAL.Is it my g4 or am I setting something wrong?
Should I render out an HDV quicktime from FCP 5 first?
Should the video format be set not at Pal byt at HDV?Terry
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5 Replies
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My understanding is that since HDV is already in the Mpeg-2 format, you don’t need Compressor. All you are doing is re-compressing it, which is undesirable.
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Well, it uses mpeg 2but it needs to be expoted out of FCP to become a file that can easily be made into a dvd. I think It will have to be compressed again to make it useable size for a 4gb DVD disc.
Terry
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I haven’t done much with HDV and FCP 5 yet, but I would imagine the best method is to export a reference movie first, then use this for compressing. You will have to eventually recompress, because DVD-Video discs can only have video sized at 720×480 and lower for NTSC. For the fastest MPEG-2 software encoder that I know to be available on the mac, take a look at the MainConcept Encoder. Its quality is significantly better than Compressor or QT as well.
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I think you might be confusing compressing with building or muxing which is done in DVDSP, not Compressor.
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Terence,
What capture settings did you select for FCP? If you got it wrong the render bar appears, get it right, no render after capture, got it?
Cheers
Alexander
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