[John Rofrano]

> DSE or John Rofrano, could one of you look into this please.

Yea, that’s definitely a misguided link. I’ll tell our web folks about it. Thanks,

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[John Rofrano]

> I also tried Neat Video Demo, which seems to work better but adds its watermark on the lower right of the screen. I have used it in the past by reducing the video image in size so that the watermark is outside the image boundary, rendering to another DV file, then cropping the watermark out on the final render to MPEG-2. But this may be hurting image resolution, since I am resizing the image twice in the process.

When you buy the plugin, the water mark goes away. VHS is never going to look good on DVD without some form of noise reduction to smooth out the inherent noise which drives the MPEG encoder crazy. A good capture devices can do this for you. If your’s doesn’t, Neat Video is an outstanding choice for doing this.

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Create one CD with the video file on it and then use a free burning utility like ImgBurn to create an ISO image of the CD and then burn multiple copies from the ISO image (which ImgBurn will also do).

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[John Rofrano]

What format does the 5D Mark II produce? Perhaps you need to transcode them into something Vegas Movie Studio can edit easier. I would see if something like MPEG Streamclip can convert them for you.

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Something is not right. Have you every done this before and had it work? Maybe a re-install could clear things up? The output from Movie Studio should be acceptable to DVD Architect Studio.

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I can’t imagine why this wouldn’t work. Make sure the Mask track is checked (but simply using the tool enables it). Perhaps you could post a screen shot of your display so we can see what’s going on. Maybe someone could spot something that isn’t right.

You could even show us what’s happening by using Jing. 😉

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> Is there any specific reason why you assumed they would want a DVCPRO file from me?

Yea, most broadcasters want Betacam SP or Digital Betacam tapes which are DV. Panasonic’s DVCPRO is like Sony’s DVCAM and is what most SD ENG cameras shoot and what you watch every day on SD TV. The quality is exceptional and I’m not sure why you think it’s like YouTube. What did you watch it on to determine this?

If they said that you can use any codec you want then Uncompressed or Animation will yield the highest quality because they are both lossless formats. Animation will yield a smaller file because it uses lossless compression. That gives the broadcaster the most information to work with and they can recompress it to whatever format they need for broadcast.

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> The file is supposed to be 720×576 interlaced for PAL. (I need the NTSC Version for another Satellite Channel, that wants Quicktime, 720×486 interlaced)

OK, try this:

Start by using the HDV 720-24p (1280×720, 23.976) project setting. This is very important. Drop your video on the timeline and go to the render dialog and choose Quicktime 7 as the Save As type and press the Custom… button. Under the Video tab select the proper Frame size (NTSC DV or PAL DV) and under Video format select either DV/DVCPRO – NTSC or DVCPRO – PAL. That is probably what they are looking for.

So that’s: File | Render As… | Quicktime 7 (*.mov) | Custom… | Video

Frame size: NTSC Standard (720×486)
Video format: DV/DVCPRO – NTSC

and

Frame size: PAL DV/Standard (720×576)
Video format: DVCPRO – PAL

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I would output at the resolution of the footage and let the PC scale it up. It usually does a good job. If you render to MPEG-2 it will require that the PC you use has DVD Player software as Windows Media Player will not play MPEG-2 natively without it. So a WMV file is probably the most compatible format for you to use.

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> Yes I have tried that, but I really dont like the quality of it.

Well… SD is never going to look as good as HD.

> It gives me a 600mb avi file (for a 3 min music video)

That’s correct. DV is 13GB/hr or about 200MB/min which is 600MB for 3 minutes.

> which qualitywise is so much worse than for example a quick time animation (100 percent, size of abt 4 GB) rendering.

Quicktime Animation is lossless. There will be no degradation in quality.

> I have 4,7 GB space for a DVD delivery, so Im trying to deliver the best quality possible.

What format does the delivery have to be in? A playable DVD (in which case MPEG-2) or is the DVD just the biggest media you can send but the content can be just a file.

> Picturewise the quicktime Animation render looks just fine, but the pixel aspect ratio becomes 0,9.. no matter what I do

Quicktime Animation assumes square pixels. If you are using non-square pixels you must change the resolution to compensate. For example NTSC DV Widescreen 720×480 PAR 1.2121 should be rendered at 873×480 PAR 1.0000 (720 x 1.2121 = 872.712).

> …that I need to make ready for NTSC and PAL broadcast.

I think you need to check what format the broadcasters will accept.

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