SD DVD to Blu-Ray? or not.

[Zane Barker]

[Craig Johnson] “What workflow would you use to improve the quality?”

You cannot improve ONLY preserve.

**Hindsight is always 1080p**

[Craig Johnson]

That’s what I thought, but Mark just indicated that he himself would edit using a better codec because of quality issues. I’m just curious what method he would use.

Regards

[Mark Suszko]

I really only meant that it didn’t make sense to me to convert mpeg2 to DV just to create a new master to re-encode into another DVD. Like they said, if all you really want is to preserve a failing DVD, just copy the existing transport steam, bit-for-bit.

If this were my problem, and I wanted to use the opportunity to edit some changes, I sure wouldn’t do it in the DV codec, I’d look at something like prores or uncompressed 10-bit I think. No, you’re not going to make the mpeg 2 source material “better” by going to a higher quality codec, but certainly you won’t make it any worse, and your graphics will thank you.

[Craig Johnson]

I think I know what you are saying, I’m not sure in MPEG Streamclip which would have been the correct settings during the capture. I’m assuming that MPEG Streamclip is where I could have made better choices from what you are saying. Previous posts that I found in my searches only indicated this working by capturing the DVD with MPEG Streamclip to a DV or DVpro codec. I haven’t done this before so was I was relying on those bits of info for a workflow.

Regards

[Martin Curtis]

Could you use Toast (or similar) to make an exact copy of them? Unless you were planning on fixing the images in FCP, no ripping/recompression is required.

[Craig Johnson]

I see in one of my replies a few posts up that I used the word rip instead of copy. I was in a hurry. To answer your question….no. They constantly stall and are ejected. I used MPEG Steamclip to set a new in point after every failure. I could get a bit more and a bit more until after a whole weekend I got all the footage. I needed FCP to splice it back together. They are too far gone to stay in the machine long enough to get a copy.

Regards