Hi Y'all-I also posted this on Cafe LA-
I'll be wrapping up that job, after a brief hiatus, Wednesday (today). The content is a little bit of video (first section and then peppered throughout), but mostly stills (about half snapshots with moves on 'em, and half scanned pages from magazines), lots of text and multiple layers of both text and images. I did a down n' dirty, fast, one-pass compression last week - just so we'd have a DVD of the rough-cut for reference during our hiatus - but now I need to do the best possible compression for the final DVD.
It is not for broadcast, it will be projected at a live-event first, and then copies given out that will be shown on NTSC monitors. It's the projection that concerns me as the text from the magazine covers and also the FCP motion-text (in many different colors at various points) will look blurry when blown up large I'm sure.
The client also insisted on red text in multiple instances, which I did not recommend. Thinking about trying that "broadcast safety" color correct pre-set just to minimize "bleeding." Any comments on this welcome, never done it before.
I do plan to use 2-pass compression, ordinarily I'd just try out the 90 minute encode, 2-pass option in compressor, but if anyone has any customized settings or bit-rates to try with text heavy and stills-heavy material I would appreciate hearing the details,
Thanks lots,
Marla