[Mike Armstrong]

dvd studio pro. i don’t think it’s recompressing. unless that’s a default setting i forgot to remove. i’ll check.

i may not know what i’m doing, but i have great equipment 🙂

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[Mike Armstrong]

re: poor dvd encoding.
that might be the problem. I am using compressor & chose mpeg2 encoding with a 2pass best quality compression, VBR with an average of 4.5 and max of 7. I’ll try compressing with a max of 6 if that might make things better. But It’s a full 3 1/2 hours on a dvd-9, so I know i’m pushing it. but that’s what the client wants.

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[Mike Armstrong]

Thank you, that is incredibly helpful.
I’m using Natress for the effects. for some odd reason, when i took the anamorphic setting off, the combing went away. If i can post what I’m talking about I will – I’m using 2 seperate computers for the internet & the editing. i didn’t even think about the up-scaling & shifting – I did a lot of that. I’m still pretty new to this & i forget to watch these things occasionally.

I just watched some of the clips on the monitor & the problem seems to have resolved itself. Still I’ll try & post it so that someone can tell me what the problem was in the first place.

mike

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[Mike Armstrong]

Any help at all…

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[Mike Armstrong]

oh.

SO it’s just the same as with a normal DVD – I thought that because it was a Dual Layer, there would be something different at this stage.

Thanks!

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[Mike Armstrong]

“I got the impression the question was more in the vein of “how do I get this movie to MPEG-2 for DVD creation”

exactly!

I can author it with dvd studio pro (i am dvd-9 capable).

i just don’t know the best way to get it to dvd studio pro

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[Mike Armstrong]

thanks. i’m going to use whatever program will give me the least pixelization.

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[Mike Armstrong]

alight, first thank you for a very fast & most welcome reply.
2nd.
So when I go to convert the DVD, i can choose whatever codec i want? and if i’m going to be editing the files at all you recommend 10/8 b Uncompressed or at least DVCPro50 setting?

just want to make sure as i havn’t done this before.

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[Mike Armstrong]

Thanks a lot man! worked perfectly

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[Mike Armstrong]

Thank you so much.
question. if i don’t go to 24p if i stay in 1080p30 (if there is one) then i won’t have this problem? these two settings look exactly the same to my naked eye.

what is the difference?

i’m pretty much a complete beginner with fcp

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