[Dan Freshman]

But I also able to load photo jpegs in to DVDsp before encoding to mv2. This won’t be the case with h.264s?

[Dan Freshman]

i mean go from photo jpeg to h.264 then to m2v/aif. Trying to figure out a process to get rid of interlacing problems on a ton of clips.

[Dan Freshman]

ya, I agree and have thought about committing to that approach. The down side is it creates a large break in the middle of the project to encode instead of at the end, which seems insignificant but this process has to be done so often it seems best to do it at the end. Just a workflow preference some people prefer i guess. Also…this problem w/ the a/v tracks not lining up is so intermittent that it is the only road block left, and it is incredibly frustrating that we can’t fine a solution

[Dan Freshman]

Our work flow is we get a list of movies clips from our producers to create a DVD from. We use QuickTime Coffee to concatenate those clips into one movie which is a reference file of those clips. We bring it into DVDsp and author the DVD. This is our problem:

That the audio and video tracks do not line up; the audio track is longer. We had figured this was b/c of the multiple audio and video tracks contained w/ in it but now i’m not even sure; as every concatenated movie has multiple a/v tracks and this problem only shows up randomly; seemingly w/ out any predictability. We can fix it by making a self contained mp2 in compressor but this takes a lot of time and using just the reference file saves a ton of time.

thanks for any ideas,
dan

[Dan Freshman]

I can’t really do that…it infringes on part of the process of why these refernce files are created…the reference file references a concatenation of quicktime movies that when imported into DVDsp, if there are multiple video/audio tracks, becomes unable to be put in the timeline. I will have to go through each movie and export to a different codec to ‘flatten’. I feel like i’ve tried that and it hasn’t worked…i will post if that happens. I appreciate the help.

[Dan Freshman]

its actually a reference file, would that still work?

[Dan Freshman]

yes i have and I do have multiple video/audio tracks. Any way to get rid of those besides unchecking them which seems to do bad things to my movie

[Dan Freshman]

Hello Brian,

Thank you for your post. It was very helpful.

All the footage I have uncompressed is at 29.97 interlaced on digital beta, alot of the sources of this material was a variety of formats from film NTSC and PAL and stuff on 3 quarter inch…I would like to do some tests of creating DVDs from this footage at 23.98fps instead of 29.97 to try and get rid of some of the interlacing problems we’ve had. People have mentioned that 24p footage when on DVD gets flagged to have pulldown added when necessary. How does this work? Is this something inherint in most/all DVD players or is this something that needs to be added during the encoding process?

thanks
dan

[Dan Freshman]

I’m sorry to be beating this subject to death, but i’m looking for advice for encoding settings for DVD. My files are currently in photo jpegs 720X486 ntsc. But I have access to digibeta uncompressed footage of most of my material as well. Using a blackmagic capture card, I have to set it to some frame rate to bring it in, usually ntsc. My ultimate goal is to have no interlacing problems on computer monitors and tv monitors…like any hollywood DVD. What is the big difference that professional DVD authoring is doing? What frame rates do they have their media files set to? I put bad boys II next to my footage and there’s just no basis for comparison. What are the main differences? (besides wha they were originally shot on)

[Dan Freshman]

In general would it be safe to assume that DVD players are going to flag 23.98p footage to become NTSC? Or is that typically higher end DVD players.