[David Poremba]

Yes
I’ve had this problem as well in NTSC. Sending BM NTSC 10 or 8 bit files to IDVD. I think IDVD does not play nicely with 720 x 486 files. It prefers 480 in DV codec. I’m guessing it it gets confused with the 6 extra lines. This is too bad – it kind of kills 8 or 10 bit picture quality if you have to compress to a DV codec movie prior to exporting to IDVD. Even though IDVD is a consumer app, its so convenient at times to use for quick roughcut outputs for client screener DVD’s. For me, in many cases dumbing down to DVCodec and Meg2 on top of that is not too great for the client reviews.

anyone else experience this? – any other work arouunds besides the Compresser to DVDSP or DVcodec to IDVD route?

david poremba

[David Poremba]

Thanks for this Charlie I’ll give it a shot. Will BMD DV playback through fire wire? I’ve never tried that.

on another related note to all this – in my tests, I discovered that when dropping BMD 10bit media into apple DV timeline, the picture automatically tries to scale to 97.7 percent – this may account for the crappy fuzzy transcode – if I change scale to 100 I’m thinking this may help with this transcode – more later after I test this out.

thanks

dp