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[christianhayden] “i’ve not switched blank dvds – i’m using the same ones i’ve always used”

And what brand is that?

In a bundle of discs there is often one or two that are bad.
Douse it do the same thing with another disc?
Do the discs work in another computer?

You ask for suggestions but you do not say what you have tried.

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Unless other wise specified in the contract I say you own it. But with that you also cant go use that footage for anything that my be damaging to the client, like using that footage to in a video for a competitor.

If the client wants the master footage then, have that specified in the contract. Also make sure that you add an additional fee onto your services. If they agree and pay the added fee, they you literally give them the master tapes.

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You ask if it could be the batteries, well have you tried other batteries? Douse your mouse do the same thing on a different computer? Douse a different wireless mouse act the same on your computer.

You ask us what it could be, but it douse not sound like you yourself have tried anything.

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its not going to be a quicktime setting, Toast or any other DVD program the douse the encoding for you will take whatever quicktime you give it and reincode it, usually using there own settings that you have little or no control over. That is why I NEVER use them, I want the control, so I encode the file myself and then make the disk in DVD SP

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For an easy solution just use the web presets in compressor.

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[Chris Poisson] “The way I would do this is to capture native HDV via Firewire, and put it in a DV anamorphic timeline and render. Done.”

No need to put it on another timeline, just export using compressor, using the DVD presets. This will convert the HDV directly to DVD ready files. Then just bring them into DVD SP.

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[Steve C.] “Any other settings that I can try to get good quality but no jumping?”

Well if we know what settings you used, then we might be able to suggest “other settings”

What did you use to burn the DVD?
What where your compression settings.
You say you are plying it on a old DVD player, douse it look the same on other DVD players?

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Check your camera I bet it is set to down-convert the HDV to DV. Turn that off and you should be good.

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Check your camera I bet it is set to down-convert the HDV to DV. Turn that off and you should be good.

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I think that there are some basic things that you may not understand.

When capturing video you should capture the video in the format that it was shot in, unless you plan on editing it in a different format. For example if you shoot HDV capture in DV unless you plan wish to mix the footage with HD footage like DVCProHD, or unless you are wishng to get out of the HDV format because of its difficulties.

When archiving video you ALWAYS should archive in the highest format possible, this is normally the the same format the you shoot on.

Any time video is compressed there is quality loss.

it sounds like you wish to use this archived video for editing again later. If you compress the video, you will only be hurting yourself, because your video will not look as good as it could if you compress it because of the quality loss of compression.

If you wish to do more editing with the footage in the future then, use media manager and get an additional hard drive to store it on.

Another option and the one I prefer to use, because I want the option of reeding, yet do not want to have stacks of hard drives laying around.

Fist when you capture video make sure that you log and capture, don’t use capture now. Logging and capturing, even if you only log the begging and end of each tape will allow you to recapture the video again later.

So log and capture, do your edit and once you are finished, use media manager to keep only the parts used.

Now archive your project file, any graphics and music, and any other data files onto a DVD.

If you need to reedit you can pull your files off the DVD, and recapture from the original tapes.

You should also master to tape your edited version of your video. This way if you need to reuse the full quality video file later you can simply again recapture it. For example if you need to add the video to a different DVD compilation later.

I am sorry for the long post, but archiving compressed video is NOT something that should be done, You always want to preserve the highest quality video that you can.