Eric Pautsch
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I would go back and correct the field order issue on the SD material….assuming you have less of it in your project than HD. Field order doesn’t really matter as long as its all the same…..which it’s not.
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Then you need to recapture some footage since all field orders need to match
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Your timeline is 1920×1080 29.97 (60i)correct?
Export out from that a 720×480 16×9 anamorphic file and encode from there. Its as simple as that.
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Ok….then you export out a 720×480 16×9 Anamorphic ProRes file and use that to encode in Compressor using a bitrate of around 7.5 mb/s
Make sure your field order is the same throughout the entire process.
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What frame rate did you shoot? What frame rate did you edit?
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If you shoot HD then edit HD. Once you are done editing, youd down convert to SD and encode from that. Your final product might be SD DVD but lets say someone ask you for a Blu Ray or maybe they might want an HD file for a Film Festival? At this point your S.O.O.L since your master SD.
Using the idea to fill the rest of the disc with dummy info just to say you filled the disc doesnt make a bit of sense. What were you expecting to gain with filling a disc knowing it wont improve the actually product?
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You can send a disc but I’ll need a Hard drive to send back the ProRes
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On a Hard Drive
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Well Mac as never been know for its array of software 🙂
If you want to send me a HDD, I’ll convert it to ProRes for you. ericpautsch at gma(il)
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Ryan gave you a perfectly good explanation. DVD has limits and that is 9.8 mb/s (video) and 10.08 payload rate (video/audio combined).
You need to think of it in time, not file size. Thats why bitrates are offered in mb per SEC. He also explained why you should not go near the bitrate ceiling. 7-8mb/s max for burned media.
This is why you need to do a bit budget every time you make a disc. What the length of your program? Thats the first question….from there you would use a bitrate calculator (or some some simple math) to find your optimal bitrate based on your project. Here’s a calculator
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
I find it hard to believe Apple training never mentioned bit budgeting.