Brad Wright
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I think I could add something here. If your video is really clean without lots of random motion and noise, it can compress very well on DVD. However, Blu-ray really is cheap these days. When I started out writing DVD software, DVD-Rs were $10 each. DVD recorders were $500. Now, Blu-ray recorders are around $200 and Blu-ray recording media is around a dollar. Blu-ray is your best bet for getting HD material to look like HD. However, really well produced video compress very well and can upscale well on DVD. It’s just a lot more work.
Brad Wright is software engineer, so often hard to figure out what he is talking about. He is always happy to explain answers further.
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I want to further add that using H.264 or any other non intra-frame codec will slow your system down. The reason for this is that it has to constantly create frames from other frames. Canon’s new EOS-1D now has an intra-frame recording option for this very reason. It makes it easier to edit in an NLE. For the best experience, convert to ProRes or another codec that isn’t IPB based.
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I’ve had this problem when burning Blu-ray. What you need is to render to a stand alone Quicktime file and then import that file into Compressor. The reason for this is that you don’t want to tie up FCP while you are rendering a Blu-ray which could take 10 hours. Also, FCP eats memory like crazy, so you don’t what that running on top of encoding. I ran into some issues with long videos such as 45 minutes or longer and compressor. I upgrade to the new version of Compressor and haven’t checked yet to see if the issue is fixed. Sadly, Apple has been on a crusade against all optical disks.
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For youtube stick with a low frame rate. If you are taking about 60p, that’s not going to be efficient for any kind of streaming service. 24p allows the codec to be more efficient.
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Just to set the record straight, Shane uses DVDxDV, as well.