Daniel Sadgrove
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Eric, by top shelf I should have said “off the shelf” quality. ie) These DVDs are going out to retail stores I would like them to look as good as any other DVD you buy. The source footage is great, just need to make sure it looks 95% as good when compressed.
Cheers Michael for the tip, I will look into that.
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Thank you. I use compressor, it’s not that great to be honest when encoding feature length films to DVD. Basically, I want the quality to be shop-shelf quality. Maybe it’s my settings but I just don’t seem to get that quality with Compressor. Episode is ok, a lot faster but I just find the image quality goes down too far.
I’m looking for something a little bit more specific with regards to specifications and equipment. Compression is the most important part of this project, does anybody know what the professional manufacturers use when compressing large files to DVD that get it looking so clean?
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Right, sorry. Yes we have a digibeta deck to ingest and a Blackmagic card, possibly also an Aja Kona card too. Currently use FCP to capture in and possibly going to use Encore to encode to DVD, either that or Studio Pro. Using a Mac tower.
If there is a better capture card and software to use we will purchase it. Trying to find a system so we can keep quality to a premium when compressing to fit on a single side DVD.
Basically we’ll be ingesting into the Mac, adding a DVD menu then encoding to DVD and sending off to the manufacturers.
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Cheers David. Trial by fire, indeed. Looks like a long night ahead of recapturing.
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It was the drive provided to me for the job.
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Hi David,
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately Disk Warrior cannot rebuild the directory because the file system is unsupported. It says “This disk is not a Macintosh disk. This Disk does not appear on the desktop”
I’m guessing this is because it is a Windows formatted drive.
Disk Utility wouldn’t let me repair the permissions and crashed when it tried to repair the disk.
Is there any PC program I can use to repair the disk if I try it on a Windows computer?
I hope I don’t have to recapture all the footage, that could take a while!