[E’mya Greene]

Hey Gary,

Thank you for your response, please see below to answer your questions.

[Gary]
What codec are you using for your export (ProRes, Animation, H264, other)? How does that file look when played back?

– Current settings which is – Apple ProRes 422 HQ
– Make self contained movie

[Gary]
What do you mean by “super pixelated”? Really blocky?… or just not as sharp as the original? I’m assuming that the original footage is HD so you have to keep in mind that DVDs are SD. There’s a fair amount of scaling that has to be done to get HD to SD and this may be part of what you’re seeing.

Yes, not as sharp just blocky and fuzzy the more you expand to full screen. Yes scaling plays a massive part in that conversion understood, but i didn’t think it would be as blatant as it looks. Clearly the quality is low res.

[Gary]
What are you using to add titles… or do you mean menus? The graphics tools and templates provided in DVDSP are not great. If possible, build your menus using Photoshop or something similar but make sure the screen resolution and aspect ratio are the proper size so DVDSP doesn’t have to do any scaling.

Yes sorry menus. I’ve created a simple menu layout for a play all option and Chapters. I’ve made sure i’ve ticked the 16:9 option also.

[Gary]
How are you viewing the finished version? If you are just looking at the program screen in DVDSP then that could be the problem. You need to burn a disk and play that on a TV. Or, write the DVD to a folder on your computer and play that using your computer’s DVD player.

I’ve viewed it on my computer as well as on dvd to watch and it looks the same. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Only got today left to sort this.

Thanks

[E’mya Greene]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for response.

What settings do you suggest when outputting using mpeg streamclip ?

Thanks

[E’mya Greene]

Hey Nick,

Thanks for your response.

I’ve actually done both options with current settings non/compressed & recompressed to check if it’s something i’m doing wrong. But it seems its in the mpeg2 conversion for dvd in compressor.

Trying other methods but the best quality is when i export for web, but then i can’t transfer it into dvd studio pro because its obviously not in the format it wants.

Thanks for the suggestion – Still trawling the net for answers but i feel its HD-SD the quality wont change. But i stay hoping!

Thanks

[E’mya Greene]

Hi Richard,

Thanks i’ve tried what you using compressor 3.5.3 and still the same outcome. I think you’re right HD-SD is the problem and converting to mpeg-2 for dvd just seems like the outcome i’m going to get. I upgraded to compressor 4.2 thinking it would have a better encoder but i was wrong. Seems like i’m going to have to just issue it as a online file.

Thanks anyway.

[E’mya Greene]

Hey Shane,

Appreciate you response.

So i’ve done as you’ve suggested and it’s come out the same… i’m at wits end at this point. I might add that in compressor 4.2 it doesn’t have the option to select best quality settings for 90mins like its previous version. It’s basically just select the Create DVD option (unless i’m missing something)

Before i put it into compressor 4.2 it looks perfect, not sure what else i can do right now… I’ve tired also
going straight into DVD studio pro but that also comes out looking pixelated. Any other suggestions i’m seriously open and would appreciate it. Got a deadline for end of the week which is looking bleak right now.

– E’mya