[Daniel Ludwig]

Johannes,
there are several issues!

first of all: your projec-settings have to be set correct. should be PAL MPEG2 and AC3 dolby digital audio for DVD.

if your assets wont match the project/transcoding-settings they will be transcoded to whatever is set in the settings.

assets should be encoded prior authoring within encore using adobe media encoder.

NOTE: allowed assets are only MPEG2 elementary steams (.m2v) or dolby AC-3-files (.ac3)

2nd NOTE: if your project-settings have been set differntly you wont be able to switch them back, you need to create a new project and start from scratch.

3rd NOTE: if your source-material is HD, you should downscale to PAL SD first prior encoding.

you also might be awared of media-quality! only use high-quality DVD-media like verbatim (AZO) or taiyo yuden.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Eric,
could you please get in touch with me via email or skype. I´m sure you still have my private email, but here´s another one in case you wont have it anymore: info (äät) moviedesign.de

here´s my skype-nick: dannyoman

I only have an old email-address from you, that appears no longer to be used.

I have an urgent question that you might be able to answer.

thx a lot.

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Nige,
1.) export the entire film as selfcontained MOV or AVI to your harddisc – same (HD-) export-settings as your files-settings.

2.) use AfterEffects to downscale to SD-Video 720×576 upper first.

3.) encode the SD-file using AME (adobe media encoder), MPEG2 upper first

4.) author with encore.

that should work if you haven´t got any big bugs within your premiere-export-settings.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Nige,
you are talking about HD and blu-ray, but the topic have been SD-DVD? so what are you trying to do?

don´t be confused by 1080i50 or 1080i25 – it´s the same.

have you tried to playback your DVD (?) using a standalone-DVD-player with a tube-TV and flat-screen?

is there still the same line-problem? if so – one reason could be that interlaced material has become progressive (without deinterlacing) anywhere within the workflow. then it has been downscaled for SD afterwards and then you´ll get these terible curtains on your picture.

by the way: 1440×1080 is a terrible source (anamorph HD) and needs to be scaled down very carefully! your lines could also be a problem of non proper downscaling.

keep in mind: it´s allways the best to scale down prior encoding for SD-DVD-authoring. don´t use encore for transcoding.

NOTE: I´m PAL, too | living in germany 😉

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Sorry Jef,
I miss-wrote this – I meant: you will see these interlaced artefacts/lines that´s been visible on your screenshots only on screens that could not show real interlaced pictures like any (consumer) TFT or plasma or computer-monitor.

if you´ll watch this film on a real studio-reference-monitor you´ll see interlaced pictures of cause. but all others will show your pictures like this.

by the way – there´s still your field-dominance-problem: upper vs lower, that must be corrected to get the lines in the right order.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Hi Nige,
two things:

1.) if you have encoded field dominance lower first – that´s wrong! as your source is 1080i50, which has field dominance upper first, you must encode your SD-video upper first, too.

2.) this screenshow was taken from your computer or from your tv-screen? nevertheless – theese are interlaced artefacts which will be shown on screens who can not show real interlaced lines (like studio-reference-monitors).

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

jepp – bitrite to high!

what codec did you use? H264 or MPEG2? which bitrate did you use?

blu-ray could only handle 48MBit/s for all content (audio+video). keep in mind that uncompressed pcm(wav/aif)-audio have 1.5Mbit/s bandwith.

if you have chosen MPEG2HD, I would advice to use H264, as it could create the same quality as MPEG2 at a lower bitrate.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Jef,
it´s not a matter of the bitrate, encore could import AC-files with the max. bitrate for AC3 which is 640kbit/s. there must be any other kind of problem with your bitstream.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Jef,
could you please tell me which compressor-encoding-setting do you use? have you choose one of the presets or have you create your own?

could you please export the settings (drag-drop) it out of compressor and sent it over (zipped) to my email, so I could have a look at your compressor-ac3-setting?

here´s my email-address: info (ät) moviedesign.de

there must be something strange within your ac-settings.

cheers

danny

[Daniel Ludwig]

Clayton,
besides the fact that H264-mov is a very bad idea to export out of FCP (you should export pro res) for MPEG2-encoding – you should encode your video+audio-assets prior authoring.

you can encode and/or create a DVD from within FCPX straight away from within the export-window or using compressor.

cheers

danny