Matthew Brunn
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The quality coming across the firewire is the same on ANY device. You need to determine your feature you NEED for your production house. Just cause it’s cheap, doesn’t mean it can’t do the job. The DSR is built for daily use and versatility. If you don’t need either pick up the camcorder. If you need the features, you have little choice but to buy the DSR. Needs first, bling later!
This is my deck:
https://www.dvnation.com/10k.html
It fulfills my needs, I don’t recommend it for everyone.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
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Get a faster Mac.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
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I assume you used the 90min CBR because your program is 90 minutes. First your DVD will never look as good as your original footage, don’t expect it to. Your compressing the original by a factor almost 3 at a 90min rate. Try a VBR, it takes longer to encode but the the detail is better over long project, half hour or more. Next I take each and encode to just make it fit on the DVD so that I put all my little bits I can towards the picture. I compress the audio to AC-3 so that I can put more information toward the picture.
Try to do a 60 minute VBR and compress the audio to AC-3. You will put more bits toward the video giving you better resolution. No matter what you do color will suffer, it’s just the format Mpeg-2 problem. Do some test renders for the problem areas and find the settings that work best with your video, ALL video is not shot the same and doesn’t encode that way. To get maximum you have to find it, their is no silver bullet, just the magic you make with the tools.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
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What have you done so far? You can only do so much with Compressor.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
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I’m a little confused. Did you edit already or are you digitizing? What format did you shoot in? HDV, DV something else? What are the loads of things you have tried so that our suggestions won’t be duplicating efforts.
Most likely if it’s a “camera thing” it’s how it was shot not the signal from the camera.
At this point my suggestion is to edit in the format that you shot in.
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Sorry to say, I know of no way to get all the infomaion you typed in, out easily. It is cut and paste.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
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It could be due to that. Since we know nothing about the graphics your using or the resolution your editing in it’s pretty hard to tell anything about your project or give any advice.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3 -
Using a clapboard when it’s shot.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
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Drives are so cheap and getting cheaper. We now just add the price of a drive to the project. We have a hot swap case and buy the raw drives for each project. We are able to save all media and renders plus, no need to re-digitize. We back up edit, GFX, and things that can’t be reproduced or re-digitized on DVD-R and move that off site.
https://www.cooldrives.com/quretrfienin.html
https://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=3173558/search=300gb+drive/skd=1
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.9
Ram 1.38
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I compress videos to be downloaded by businesses and personal use all the time and this is my experience. If you have a savvy customer Quicktime is great. H.264 is superior quality. If you are looking for UNIVERSAL playback it’s unfortunately Mpeg-1. I have yet to find a customer that can’t play it. Window Media is next. Then Quicktime.
For quality that depends again on your delivery and bandwidth. If these people are on dial up they ain’t waitin for some 36 MB file to download. For me it’s a snap. It’s a balance. How big a file (quality) vs. the delivery plus Format (QT,WMV,MPEG) = answer.
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Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.5
Ram 1.38
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3