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Please help me compress my HDV!Posted by greengiant
Hi Greengiant,
We'll need more iformation to help you. Do you mean you need to create a DVD that plays on a standard DVD player (in which case, that won't be HD)? or do you need to use the DVD to store digital files in order to transport your HD quicktime movie to another machine or some special format for playback/projection? Any info you provide will help us help you. Travis VoiceOver Guy and Entertainment Technology Enthusiast [www.VOTalent.com]
Click Compressor 2 to open it.
Go into Preferences > Default Setting: choose DVD Fastest Encode 150 min 4:3 Slide the mouse over and select ALL Drag your QT movie file into the Compressor Window. Don't click on the file yet. (The highlight will be below the file). In the Inspector Window that will open up, Click on Encoder in File Format choose mpeg 2 Video Format: NTSC Rate: 29.97 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Field Dominance: Top First Click on the Quality tab choose mode: 1 Pass VBR The other two tabs GOP and Extras (I leave these alone.) (I also leave the other icons of the Inspector window alone) Under the Compressor batch window where you have the file, click on the file once. and hit Submit in the lower part of the window on the right. A window will open up and the compression process starts. It takes a while... hours :-) Then you'll end up with the picture and sound files to insert into DVD SP and make your 4.7 GB DVD. This will get you started. There is a lot to learn. You have to experiment from this point on.
Hi Greengiant.
The steps outlined Filmmans' respose (above) should do what you need. My guess is that the quality will be adequate, depending on your standards of course. If you need much higher quality, you will need a compression expert with expensive tools and a great deal of time - Try it and see if it works for you - it probably will. Not sure what you mean by "Do I need to disk for this?" If you mean "Do I need two disks for this?" the best way to find out is to burn one DVD and see if it's "good enough." Travis VoiceOver Guy and Entertainment Technology Enthusiast [www.VOTalent.com]
Thanks filmman, I waited 16 hours and it happend. I am very happy. Thank you for your response. I guess now I'm getting greedy. Can I gain resolution if I put my project half and half on 2 DVD's. I know beggers can't be choosers. You seem pretty smart. Thanks in advance.
John Deyoe GreenGiantVideo
Caveat: Most people hate having to switch discs while playing a movie. That's why the first generation of DVDs, which had followed a similar format to laserdiscs (LDs, that ancient ancestor of the DVD), were universally unpopular. To split up a film like GoodFellas onto two sides...yuck.
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