TOUGH PROBLEM, Image Quality 24p

Hello everyone,

I am having a real problem.

I am combining three different shoots into my film; the shoots were done with three different cameras. I have some HD (1 shoot) and have 24p (2 shoots) on my timeline. My problem is with my first group of 24p. The image quality of the dailes was great. However, when I burnt the DVD from the timeline (full-film), all-the-sudden, the image quality (with ONLY the first group of the 24p) looks like low end VHS. Yet, the other stuff in the timeline (HD & alternate camera 24p) looks great.

The stuff initially looked great on the "dailies" when I burnt it to DVD and watched it on the very same NTSC monitor, so, I know it was okay a few months ago. So, what could be causing it too suddenly look so bad when I output the film onto DVD. I have tried it in both a 23.98 and 29.97 timeline (completely re-editing). My capture settings are appropriate (for NTSC DV PRO) yet, for some reason it is falling apart on every version I try when outputting to DVD, but the other 24p stuff and HD look great. Why would only one group of 24p seem to arbitrarily fall apart?

Has anyone every encountered a problem like this, or have any suggestions?

Thanks so much.

Brad Eisner

I'm not sure why its falling apart on just that particular footage but...

Try doing the MPEG-2 in compressor from a self contained movie output from your FCP timeline

Use these settings:

MPEG-2, 1 Pass CBR (Constant Bit Rate) 6.5Mbps, Motion Estimation Best, GOP Structure IBBP Open, GOP size 15, Add DVD Studio Pro metadata.

Export a Stereo AIFF from the same timeline and import directly into DVDSP (unless you want to make an AC-3 in Compressor as well)

I had a problem encoding NTSC directly in DVDSP yesterday with it all becoming pixelated and what I described above was my work-around.


Ben



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