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Will ProRes422 rendering improve an HD DVD?
I’ve been editing a project in HDV on FCP 6, capturing via firewire and editing using the regular HDV codec. Now I’m getting ready to export to Compressor, where I’ll make an mpeg2 file at 19 Mbps and bring this in to DVDSP in order to burn a 30-minute-long HD DVD on a 4.7GB disk. I’ve tried all this and everything works well. My question is this: is it worth while to copy and paste my video into a new FCP sequence where ProRes422 is selected as the rendering codec (this seems to produce better results with some fades) and export to Compressor from there–or is this just a waste of time considering that Compressor will simply create a new mpeg2 file?
ALFRED GUZZETTI
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6 Replies
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If you could afford to have 25 mbps on the DVD, you’d be able to use your native footage
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I vote for waste of time.
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Paul Escandon
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Nope, just stick with the HDV codec all the way through.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Many thanks. Unfortunately at 25 Mbps I can’t fit 30 minutes onto the 4.7GB DVD. In cases where I’ve had a shorter tape, I’ve put the file onto the HD DVD in its native form, as you suggest, with very good results. But in a test, I wasn’t able to see any obvious difference between the native 25Mbps and the same material compressed further to 19Mbps.
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
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Have you considered using a Dual Layer DVD?
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Thanks for the suggestion. My experience is that dual-layer DVDs sometimes produce a hesitation on playback when the player switches layers. Our project is a gallery installation involving 5 HD DVDs playing back in synchronization. Exact synchronization of the players currently on the market evidently isn’t possible; so we’ve had to settle for starting the machines together using an infrared relay. We find that holds to within a fraction of a second even after several hours of repeating. I don’t want to introduce more possibilities of synchronization or playback error than I have to.
ALFRED
Alfred Guzzetti
Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz 4GB RAM
Intensity Pro card
OS 10.4.9
FCP 6.0
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