Video output is not as good as the input…HELP!!!!

[Vince Becquiot]

There are a couple of issues with your settings.

First, I don’t believe this camera supports progressive recording.

If you check deinterlace, you will lose half your resolution, so uncheck that.

You will however see some interlacing artifacts when viewed on a computer, that’s the nature of interlaced footage.

Make sure you keep the same field order as your footage and again, don’t choose progressive unless the footage was shot in progressive.

Finally, the bit rate will depend on how long the video is.

Under 1 hour, you can use 8MB / CBR. Above that you’ll have to calculate the VBR rate.

Vince Becquiot
Director | Editor

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Adam Clements]

Also, remember that if you’re only using regular DVD’s (ie as opposed to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) then you’re compressing down to Standard Definition anyway, so it won’t ever look as good as your original HD footage.

[Jon Barrie]

Biggest quality loss is in deinterlacing. That removes half the resolution, causing jaggy edges.

Keep the field dominance the same as the oringinal footage. HD based formats are upper field first, but check that your camera records this way. (google).

HD will always look cleaner and better than down res’d DVD. Then if its watched on a computer the resolution of the computer screen is higher than the DVD, a HDTV again higher screen res than DVD signal = DVD picture blow up, which makes the imperfections of compression more noticeable.

1st thing. Don’t deinterlace.

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jean philippe Stuart]

Hi,

I had issues with the quality also .How is your DVD after the proposed changes?
With FCP I can’t burm to HD blue-ray yet. And I don’t see any “no deinterlace” on Compressor.

[Jon Barrie]

Are you running FCP/PPro?
Are you using Compressor?
PPro uses Adobe Media Encoder to compress MPEG-2 for DVD Authoring.
PPro has a tick box for deinterlacing in the AME UI top left corner (CS3).
If you are exporting a QT mov file from PPro to use in Compressor you are wasting time and HDD space. but this process will allow you to deinterlace too. Untick that function.

What is your workflow?

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Rhys Westmoreland]

Thanks for all your input. I just thought with being able to watch standard Movie DVD’s with great quality on the HD TV with a standard player, I could get the same from PPro. I am going to assume that I will NOT get that quality from PPro.

I would also like to know if I can have HD on a regular DVD from PPro.

Thanks

[Vince Becquiot]

Well, this really doesn’t have to do with Premiere, or at least very little.

If by standard DVD you mean Hollywood type media, most are encoded from film, that pretty much says it all. Not SD or sub $100000 camera will give you that kind of resolution.

Standard DVDs are also encoded separately for different scenes with precise keyframing, nothing that Premiere or any editing app can achieve.

No, you can’t put HD on a standard DVD that will play on a standard player.

Vince Becquiot
Director | Editor

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area