[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks, yes, I’ve tried both CBR and VBR and couldn’t tell the difference.
EG

[Eyal Gordin]

Hey Mike,
You weren’t pompous at all! I apreciate the info a lot! A couple of questions. How do I avoid field order problem? I just set it for lower fields. As for the bit rate for a 4:15 min long. Are there set bitrates or it is simply experimenting?
Thanks again
EG

[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks Mike,
So if my piece is 4:15 minutes long. How do I calculate the optimum bitrates? Obviously space on the DVD is not an issue so is it not the case where higher is better?
EG

[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks again. I’ll give it a shot!
EG

[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks Wally, that’s very encouraging to hear. Do you have a super fast machine and Hard drives?
Eyal

[Eyal Gordin]

Mike,
First of all, thanks a lot for the education! I’m a Director of Photography and I get my work by showing a demo reel of my work. I edit a montage of 4-5 min on PPRO on my Win XP system and output to DVD. I took my originals (Beta SP and Mini DV) to a post house, and was told that the Betas have some noise on them. They gave me DV files (Quicktime) and they encoded my montage with Compressor. Some parts of the montage I found to be pretty poor. I’m very picky since I know the original was beautiful. I’m trying to figure out how to get the best DVD out of what I have. It seems to me that the weaker link is the encoding. I menaged to get similar results with the PPRO encoder. That tells me that there has to be a much better way to get a high quality results. One movie of mine came out as a commercial DVD and it looks fantastic. Granted they probably started with Digibeta and not Beta SP but isn’t there a way for me to get crisper, cleaner DVD? Mind you, if I view the DVD on a nicely calibrated TV set, it looks very good, but if the set is too bright, or has a “vivid” settings, it is rather poor looking. A crisp material still looks good on a crappy TV. Producers and directors will look at my reel on basic TV sets and get the wrong impression…
What would you suggest the best approach?
Thanks again
Eyal Gordin

[Eyal Gordin]

Lance,
Thanks. In other words, If I get some footage that was taken from my Beta SP in 10 bit file, I can’t edit it in PPRO? I know Final Cut can…

[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks Hector, I’ll check this option out. but can Premiere handle 10 bit without rendering it down? Is it substentially better than DV format?
Thanks
EG

[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks John,
I might have an outfit that will digitize the footage to 10 bit, but can Premiere handle it without rendering it down? Is it substentially better than DV format?
Thanks
EG

[Eyal Gordin]

Thanks Mike,
I might have an outfit that will digitize the footage to 10 bit, but can Premiere handle it without rendering it down? Is it substentially better than DV format?
Thanks
EG