Eric Pautsch
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Bitvice is Mac only and is very good. CC has always been PC in the past until last year when they released a FCP glug-in based on the same PC2/3 encoding engine. The good thing with Cinecraft is that it can do multi-pass VBR. I think it can go upwards of 99 passes. I went away for a weekend and left a 2 hour piece encoding with 20 passes…it was almost done when I returned Tuesday night and loved the result…4 days later!! Its expensive @ $1000 though. I believe the newer version on the PC side has segment based encoding which is really cool if you need to bring up the bitrates are a few sections.
No matter what I’m editing I will downconvert to a 8bit/or 10bit uncompressed 720×480 (Anamorphic if 16×9). You mentioned 720×486 – THESE ARE BROADCAST SPECS NOT DVD! DVD is always 720×480 so its important to crop 3 lines from the top and bottom to get the correct numbers if you happen to be editing for broadcast.
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Tom
Remember that Larry and John are not DVD authors or compressionist, they are editors. Be careful of the information you gather online and is another great reason why Creative Cow is such a great source of information.
When you drop a QT into DVDSP it uses Quicktime’s MPEG 2 encoding engine (confirmed by an Apple engineer just last week). The same for iDVD. QT’s encoding does a terrible job. Now this is only my opinion, but Compressor is just about the worst MPEG 2 encoder around. In fact, I would have lost several clients in the past if I hadn’t made the decision to move on to something else. I’ve been using Cinemacraft’s SP encoder ever since and wouldn’t use anything else. There are over 50 encoders for DVD, use has many as you can till you find the right one that works for you. BitVice is a great Mac encoder as well. It comes with a tool called
Video Purifier which removes contaminating artifacts before the encoding pass.I could easily pick out 3 encodes from DVDSP, Compressor and Cinemacraft – many clients could has well. I’m saying this because its important to test, test and test some more!! If you find a picky client who demands a better job then you’d better know how to get the best possible encode the first time based on your source so you can say with confidence “this is the best encode possible”
Down conversions are a big deal here as well. Since your working in HDV, the source needs to be a correctly downconverted 720×480 Anamorphic QT before you encode. Ive been using a free PC tool called AVISnyth for this kind of work and does a hell of a better job than Compressor.
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Can people be stripped of their Emmys for giving out incredibly bad advice? Ha Ha
Michael gave you the correct advice a couple posts up but if you like the work dvdsp does then so be it.
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Who ever Larry Jordon is, he knows very little about DVD or DVDSP…LOL
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There are 2 types of menus in BD: “Always On” and “Pop-Up”. There’s a chance that Encore only does Pop-Up Menus, in which case you will need to use the Pop-Up Button.
Someone correct me If Encore does both.
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Google Sling Box…perfect solution for this kind of stuff.
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Actually animated 8bit overlays are possible in DVD. I did a test years ago and it turned out looking fairly good. You can find them on the Spiderman discs and a couple others Ive seen. Not possible to do in DVDSP. Only with Scenarist or the Toshiba tool and AfterEdit of course.
https://dvdafteredit.com/node/37
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Use your head Roman! 🙂
Romans_hourly_rate=x;
time_spent_on_project=y;
cost=x*y;I can say the something like this would surely take a couple days from start to finish. You’ve invest 10s of thousands of dollars too so take that into consideration too.
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Especially work an hourly rate in BD. Where a simple disc like this could take 1 day or perhaps 3 or 4 days based on unforeseen factors.
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https://www.cinemacraft.com/ja/index.html
There are tons of other encoders too. Most have free trials. I suggest you spend this week trying them all and seeing which was you like withing your budget:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-encoders-mpg-dvd