Craig Johnson
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I think I know what you are saying, I’m not sure in MPEG Streamclip which would have been the correct settings during the capture. I’m assuming that MPEG Streamclip is where I could have made better choices from what you are saying. Previous posts that I found in my searches only indicated this working by capturing the DVD with MPEG Streamclip to a DV or DVpro codec. I haven’t done this before so was I was relying on those bits of info for a workflow.
Regards
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That’s what I thought, but Mark just indicated that he himself would edit using a better codec because of quality issues. I’m just curious what method he would use.
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Hi Mark, What workflow would you use to improve the quality?
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Basically I couldn’t find a workflow for the MPEG4/H.264 route. When I mentioned it on my inquiries, I was quickly told that it doesn’t work and MPEG2’s were the way to go. I maybe didn’t get the best responses or happened on the right threads in my searches. I worked with what I could find. I see Jeff Greenberg responded to your thread. He answers my questions and is an authority on the subject. I’m just telling you what worked for me. If he says MPEG4/H.264 works…it works. I have a new project coming up soon. I can make a duplicate and play with these new settings and see if it works. The quality of the blu-ray I made is super nice, if it could be better, I’d be in heaven.
As far as the encoding, it takes a ton of time, at least with my stuff. I’m not a pro, just have some cool toys. My quad core took 24 hours to encode my 2 hour 34 minute blu-ray. 15 minutes before it finished the first time the power to my office went out. Frustrating but worth the wait.
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Ripping the DVD’s was my first choice. Unfortunately, it couldn’t be done. Thankfully, MPEG Streamclip seems to be my best option unless there is some other way. The discs that do work, barely work. They stall every few minutes and are ejected and the Video-TS files won’t work either. Can’t get a complete one without corrupted files. In MPEG Streamclip, I have had to make up to 30 attempts of obtaining full capture, cutting and splicing it back together. One 2 hour video took all weekend of playing with it on 3 different computers. I’m thrilled at this point to have recovered this stuff.
My first priority is to go back and archive and back up and backup up again since this media can fade away so quickly. I have a whole box full of DVD’s that could be at risk. Future projects won’t be handled the same. Video-TS files on 3 different drives stored in 2 locations.
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Thanks again!!
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Hi Jeff, I thought they would last for many years. I have a thread further down the page “DVD Degradation” and I gathered I’m not alone. All the DVD’s I had authored from 06/07 using HP Lightscribe DVD5 media have all gone blank. I didn’t think that could happen. They all worked and were tested. All my family members across the country are this year having the same result with my DVD’s. Check out the thread, there were some surprising results. Fail or degrade or whatever the terminology, they are gone.
I did put the same project on a blu-ray hoping that it wouldn’t over compress and lose quality. It’s only better in scenes with motion. I know I can’t make the camera’s better, but when uncompressed in my canvas, the shots looked so good. Just wanted to see if someone had a better way to keep it that way.
In a nut shell, are you approving this workflow as my best option?: DVD > MPEG Streamclip > DV in a prores timeline> LARGER MPEG-2> DVD-9
Regards.
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Joshua,
I’m only a year with FCP but this workflow delivered a nice Blu-Ray for me. You have excellent camera’s so your result should be similar to mine. mpeg-2 is the deal and here’s a couple of workflow’s that are easy and actually work. The first is a thread I got here on the Cow, I couldn’t use his 5.1 audio part so just go with the Dolby 2.0. it worked fine for me. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/20/861769 The second link is for a Blu-Ray menu which unfortunately at this point are total crap, so this guy has a workaround that can give you a decent result for something pretty basic. You’ll grab the finished assets out of Compressor and use Toast 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3IDhivbu8k There are 2 sets of bitrates here, I used the menu guy’s and they worked fine, my movie was 2 hours and 34 minutes. The second 2 hrs 5 min. It’s really easy and when played back on a stand alone cheap Sony Blu-Ray deck it played fine and looked great. My burner was a super cheap Matshita I got off eBay for 90 bucks new. A better external drive than mine should only improve the outcome.
Good luck.
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What did you capture with? DV Camera, Stills etc…
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Your explanation of the .layout file makes sense why toast kicked it. I did just that, removed .layout from Toast and continued to burn. Tried the disc last night and all seems just fine. I love it when things actually work!
Also, I downloaded 3 different disc recovery apps on the free trial version just to see if they could see my degraded disc. One actually said it did see it, but after 6 hours it only managed to recover 2000 bits of info out of the 108,000 that were supposedly on the disc. I’m not sure if this wasn’t an error that was going to last for a week so I killed the process. My Dad has a copy of the same disc in Wisconsin. I’m going to see if his still works.