Daniel Low
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Compressor should give you excellent results, there must be something not quite right with your settings.
To start with, what does you source content consist of? Is it Video? Scans of paintings/drawings? AfterEffects? 3d? etc.
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Ok. What I think you are saying here is that you don’t want the curators having to copy files from a DVD disc onto their hard drives?
If that is the case and you want to deliver a typical DVD then you will be limited to standard definition only. I.E. 720 not 1920.
That 1920×1080 MPEG-2 M2V file you have generated may play back fine on your Mac Pro but it’s unlikely to play well on an older Mac and it certainly won’t playback from any DVD.
Your choices therefore are to deliver a 1920×1080 file that will need to be played back from a drive, either the curators hard drive, after being copied from DVD, or from a portable USB drive as suggested by Kris.
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You take your 1920×1080 source file and do a top quality transcode to SD MPEG-2 with compressor, then author it to a DVD with menus, if you like. This will then play as typical DVD would when the Curators insert it. With good quality HD source and compressor doing the transcode to widescreen SD, it will look great.
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The only other products worth considering are Digigami MegaPEG.X https://www.digigami.com/megapeg/ or Episode from Telestream.
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It all depends on your workflow and the resources available to you. There is no ‘one’ magic intermediate codec for all purposes.
Ultimately I prefer to use the source format, avoiding an unnecessary conversions.
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….but movies themselves should ALWAYS have at least 2 seconds (3 is better) of black at the tail end or you risk having the program cut off the last 2 seconds
Interesting. I’ve been transcoding for DVD for several years now (and have been working with video for a couple of decades) and have never done what you suggest.
I’d be interested to learn more about the reasons you do it.
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Sorenson is a highly compressed delivery-only codec. It is totally unsuitable for use as an intermediate format.
“Is there another way?”
Much will depend on what format you edit in and what formats your chosen DVD authoring application will accept.
I assume you were referring to Adobe Encore as the DVD application that gave you unacceptable results. It is probably worth posting your issues with it on the Encore forum to see if anyone can achieve better output: https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/adobeencoredvd
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Use the Frame Controls settings in compressor to deinterlace rather than the deinterlace filter.
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“I’m also doing motion graphics between menus and…from what you are saying…I won’t have an issue with any movement in my compression if I transcode right to the ending of the movements?”
I’m not sure I understand you here.
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You’ll want a super fast storage system (RAID), at least 4GB of RAM, a good GPU (the nVidia 8800 GT is a good start) and multiple, multi-core processors with a reliable, stable and up-to-date operating system.
As such I could only recommend the latest 8-core Apple Mac Pro, which you could obviously dual-boot with Windows, if needed.
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If I knew the exact low-level details, I certainly wouldn’t post them here!
Obviously if they have 10 or 16bit source there’ll be a down sampling to 8bit somewhere along the way, along with some Gamma correction and in special cases (i.e high value productions) manual colour correction and some selective segment re-encoding, I would have thought.
‘Ghosts of Mars’ will probably be a difficult challenge as (as far as I can remember) it’s very dark and rather grainy, as such, managing the grain and retaining shadow detail without blowing highlights will be difficult.
If you are interested in squeezing the best from H.264 (or X.264) and want to understand the best workflow with high-end material, I think you’ll find the experts at forum.doom9.org most knowledgeable.
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