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Arlin Golden
April 22, 2015 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Trying to increase quality on MPEG-2 for DVD, iMac 5k, compressor 3.5.3, os x yosemite

Oh really? I mean the quality is pretty poor throughout, but the pixelation definitely gets worse in certain parts with a lot of motion. How do I add those compression markers you mentioned? Ill give CBR a go as well. Thanks for all your help!
Arlin Golden
April 22, 2015 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Trying to increase quality on MPEG-2 for DVD, iMac 5k, compressor 3.5.3, os x yosemite

I see!

What do you use that box for if I may ask?

There must be a way, right? There are unpixelated commercial DVDs all over the place!
Arlin Golden
April 22, 2015 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Trying to increase quality on MPEG-2 for DVD, iMac 5k, compressor 3.5.3, os x yosemite

It’s just a 60 min film, so i guess keeping at 7 or 8 would be what to do (especially since builds in dvdsp that exceed 7.7 get booted).

I think I’ve determined though that my main issue is one of downscaling HD video. Ive looked through the creative cow thread on that topic and tried a lot of what was mentioned but to no avail. Is the only way to do it at a professional level to buy a downscaling box like this one? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/618348-REG/Matrox_MXO2_MINI_D_MXO2_Mini_for_Desktop.html/prm/alsVwDtl
Arlin Golden
April 21, 2015 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Trying to increase quality on MPEG-2 for DVD, iMac 5k, compressor 3.5.3, os x yosemite

Great! This is very helpful, Im loving it. So i didnt mention this but I am working for a commercial company, and these DVDs are for sale. What are these down scalers of which you speak?

and could you elaborate a little more regarding the job chain in compressor? What settings would I use for a separate downscale?

for the not enough data for motion, would using cbr instead of vbr help?

ill give the episode trial another crack with some tweaked settings and see how that goes.

thank you so much again for taking the time to respond!
Arlin Golden
April 21, 2015 at 7:46 pm in reply to: Trying to increase quality on MPEG-2 for DVD, iMac 5k, compressor 3.5.3, os x yosemite

Hey thanks for the response! I am converting HD to SD, but I don’t see how that would result in such drastic piexelation. We were all watching DVDs for years before bluray and hd streaming hit the scene, and criterion was putting HD trasnfers onto DVDs (and still continues to do so) without any pixelation. Is there a better way to down convert to SD? right now I just take an apple prores hq master file and compress that directly to mpeg-2.

I dont understand you question about keyframes and iframes, but I can tell you the pixellation occurs in the video whenever theres a lot of motion going on; big blocky pixels.

I actually just tried the trial version of episode today to see how it performed and i saw no change in video quality.