[Pierre-luc Pare]

Well, to be honest, I’m not sure yet which route to take. We always own DVD Studio Pro 3 and Sonic DVD Fusion. Our studio need many technical changes, we need many software/hardware updates to stay competitive. I would like to offer us more capabilities with a DVD authoring system workflow such Scenarist, but I really don’t know what’s worth the price for the quality and could let us push some limits with DVD specifications. We have 4 MACs and 2 PCs. I could stay on Mac with DVDSP and go with Optibase Master DE, but many potential clients told me they were not totally entrusting by a DVDSP workflow, especially for commercial titles. Although commercial titles is not yet a big part of our business, it could be great to go that way. But if SD-1000 doesn’t worth its price compared to Optibase Master DE, its a challenge question. So I’m asking many advices to many people to know what would the best to stay on the quality and satisfy future clients.

Not so obvious!

Thanks!
Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

Hi Dave,

For Optibase basic, I was talking about Mac Encoder MPEG Master Basic VBR, but I think MPEG Master SDI is more appropriate. So to compare with Sonid SD-1000, did you ever see a quality difference that worth the price ?

Thanks
Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

I’ve already done it. The sequence is 853×480 DV/NTSC and only renders don’t show up, but if I paste this sequence in a 720×480 sequence, I render it and output is fine. Is it because of my custum resolution ? I passed through the list and nothing work. Even copy paste in another timeline doesn’t seem to work.

Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

No it doesn’t help, unfortunetly. I don’t know what happened with this project. I have re-opened some others FCP projects and they all output to my monitor, even rendered. But this one worked well at the beginning and somehow, I don’t know why, it stopped to output the rendered area, even if I re-render, it doesn’t show up. I probably hit some key or did something without knowing what it was. I’ll go again with the list, but other projects work, so….

Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

Oh! Great list, I didn’t know that. Thank you very much!

Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

Thanks for your replies. So I’ll keep it on OS9 but will try with Classic, just to see (Yeah, would be great with OSX). I author DVDs since 1 year and a half with DVD Studio Pro. We have Fusion since many years, but when I came up to this company last year, I didn’t know DVD authoring at all, so Fusion was very confusing and not so easy to learn, but now I’m ready.

Thanks!
Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

If you look at my previous post, you’ll see a comparison between Flip4Mac WMV Studio and Popwire WM9 Component. Both install on QT-based apps, so you can directly output from Motion to WMV. Depends of your needs, Popwire 29$ and F4M 99$.

Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

I thought you were talking about Keyframe control. I will test Compressor 2 when we’ll upgrade.

Thanks
Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

Well, Cam DVD output mpeg2 file, so its already compressed and can be tricky to edit. FCP can import mpeg2. It would just a second generation lost while output using Compressor from FCP.

Pete

[Pierre-luc Pare]

Well I use FCP just for deinterlace, ex. I have my DV file, just put it on the timeline, aplly the filter, and export to WMV. It did a great job, but don’t know why, I could see in some action spots some interlaced lines in the deinterlaced file. Filter was applied with a “Flicker minimal”. Well, thank you for clearing me up on CM vs Squeeze.

Pete