[Daniel Ludwig]

for better result & control – do it yourself – encore is NO editing-software – its an authoring-suite.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Peter,
first of all you need to be awared that your encore-trascoding- aud project-setting needs to fit with your source-material.

so it´s no good idea to have a H264-project@24fps and your assets are M2V 25fps. in that case encore will re-transcode your assetes to H264 and the dedicated framerate.

of course every rule has it´s exception – that are encore-menus. menus allways will be transcoded to 23.98 MPEG2, even if you have a H264-project, so the best way to go is to use straight MOV for motion menus.

if you are using squeeze make sure that the encoder-settings fit BD-specs otherwise the resulting MPEG/H264-files will be transcoded again as for the same reason as the menus will be transcoded as well.

accoring to target-bitrate: for a 90min-feature-film your target-bitrate it could have 25Mbit and peak-rate at approx 30Mbit.

but mainly your bitrate is depending on the numbers of your audio-tracks, too. PCM audio has 1.5MBit/s while dolby digital only has 640kb/s max.

BD-spec allows 40MBit/s for video and 48MBit/s for the entire TS-stream.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

peter,
first of all I would advice to use H264 instead of MPEG2 for BD. better quality while data-size is a lot smaller.

H264 is a lot more modern codec than MPEG2 and you can get the same result while using lower bitrates.

to calculate the right file-sizes you need to create a bitbudgeting.

there are web-tools to do so or apps for iphone.

when you´ve got interlaced-issues you need to rethink your workflow and tell more details.

there are far to much issues, that could cause that problems! so what´s your footage? 1080i50, 1080i29.98, 1080p24, 1080p25 or 1080p23.98 – or maybe simple SD NTSC or PAL!?

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

this is depending on the beamer itself and the way it will be connected!

will it be connected with DVI, or HDMI – progressive would be good. will it be connected through conponent-input it will expect interlaced material.

note: some beamers also expecting interlaced on the HDMI-input, so you might better look at the user-manual+beamer-settings and do a test prior presentation.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

don´t use dynamic linking!

workflow should be as followe:

1. export your film as selfcontained quicktime-file, apple pro res.
2. encoding the video to MPEG2 + AC3 using adobe media encoder
3. authoring your DVD with these assets

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

as eric mentioned,
24p is the right way, but straight 24p couldn´t be used, you need to use 23.976 instead. this will be transfered/transcoded into 29.98 NDF with the necessary pulldown within the encoder.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Gor,
if your source is PAL, you need to do a format-coversion to NTSC prior encoding to NTSC mpeg2.

there are several ways to do this conversion.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

HI,
yes, it´s possible with the right tools and know-how.

I would advice to use DVD AfterEdit, but you need to know only unportected DVD-folders could be edited and it´s only working on MAC OS up to 10.6.x, as it´s a rosetta-application.

you might take a look:

https://dvdafteredit.com/

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

NOT removed pulldown?

[Daniel Ludwig]

David,
if you choose a NTSC 23.98-setting in compressor it will create a 29.98 NDF SD NTSC MPEG2 for DVD. the necessary pulldown will be implemented automatically.

DVD allways is only 25 or 29.98fps, there is no 23.98 or 24fps within the specs.

if you are planing to do an international distribution that´s a real easy way for you.

export your 1080p23.98 as selfcontained quicktime-mov using apple pro res or pro res HQ, then use the settings within compressor.

be awared of pulsing artefacts when using 2-pass VBR within compressor – could happen.

and finally yes, a DVD could have a video/audio-track as firstplay-option, so you wont reach any menu. could be easily created usig compressor as well – for more complicated DVD I would suggest to use DVD Studio Pro.

cheers

danny