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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Menu Background - 12 years agoMost people think that having an HD or greater source would make DVD encoding easy. It's not. Resizing video down to SD is a huge challenge. DVDs in PAL are 720x576. When you take a RED source at 4k RGB, your DVD will have 1/5 the horizontal resolution and 1/12 the color resolution. It has to be stepped down correctly or your video will look really bad. Keeping this in mind, create a 720x5by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: Poor Quality DVD? - 12 years agoCheck your workflow. DVDs are 720x480 for NTSC and 720x576 for PAL. Widescreen video is anamorphic not a different frame size. Resize all your video to this frame size before submitting it to the encoder. Don't submit HD video to any encoder. Check your resized footage in Final Cut Pro before proceeding to encode the footage. If that footage looks good at the scaled down size, proceed to enby brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: MTS file help needed - 12 years agoI've got one in the works Steve, shoot me an email.by brad - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD Compression to H264 - 12 years agoderekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I would have to add that converting your footage > to H.264 will cripple your editing system. > > He's not editing. > > >> "No actual editing is required only HD playback > on MacBook Pros" Thanks! I missed that detail. Are you trying to archive the footage? Long terby brad - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: strange text/dissolve/video layer issue - 12 years agoGreat Patrick! I always try to help, as it's probably the most rewarding thing that I do.by brad - Café LA Re: Straight "Simple" Reverse Telecine - 12 years agoSorry for not saying hi Koz! I haven't heard from you in years. Shoot me an email so we can catch up.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: strange text/dissolve/video layer issue - 12 years agoWhat is 1248x702 video? I've never heard of this frame size before. This could be the problem HDV 720p is 1280x720. I would keep it 1280x720 when converting it to another codec. This could be throwing FCP off.by brad - Café LA Re: Straight "Simple" Reverse Telecine - 12 years agoThere's multiple types of 3:2 pull down. The two most common are straight 3:2 and 24p advance. After Effects is really good at removing pulldown and producing straight 24p (23.97) video. Your video should really not ever use Handbrake for video encoding as it can only produce H.264 video. This will seriously degrade your video before you encode it to a DVD.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: Quality problems using effects - 12 years agoI would highly recommend using DVDxDV, which I wrote, to rip the video back from the DVD. I've spent years ensuring that you are going to get the cleanest most accurate digital copy of what is on that DVD. It's far better than what your TV monitor is going to show you. Create a bunch of test patterns such as Color Bars and a grey scale ramp, and then run these patterns through your workflow.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVCPRO HD Compression to H264 - 12 years agoI would have to add that converting your footage to H.264 will cripple your editing system. I would seriously recommend buying more external drives, just don't buy LaCie. it's way cheaper and easier to keep your all your footage on an external hard drive than to try to convert it to a really bad H.264 version.by brad - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: MTS file help needed - 12 years agoSteve send me the files. I working on a new product that may open them and transfer them to MOV files by re-wrapping the H.264 video.by brad - Café LA Re: Settings For Full Screen 16:9 SD Playback - 12 years agoAll DVDs in NTSC are 720x480. Widescreen is accomplished by stretching the 720x480 video horizontally. For the best results, I would only feed DVD SP 720x480 anamorphic video. DVD SP doesn't resize video properly. As long as, you have the 16x9 flag set on the track, the resulting DVD will be 16x9.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: Interlacing - 12 years agoDe-interlacing is tricky. You could export the video out of FCP and have it scale the video to SD. It will keep it interlaced if it actually is interlaced. I would recommend exporting to 720x480 anamorphic out of FCP.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: audio sync and compression quality - 12 years agoHandbrake doesn't follow the normal Quicktime encoding process. It has it's own code for creating H.264. Quicktime only needs 2 pass encoding to get it right. DVDxDV sends everything to Quicktime to have it process the H.264. I trust Apple a lot more to get it right than I would trust an unsupported open source project. I trust Apple to get things right more than an open source project.by brad - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: DVD Studio Pro: Specific problem. - 12 years agoIt's normal for your DVD player to freeze the last frame until a new frame appears. When it does this, you can get strange results. This could happen when jumping between menus. The video should clear up when you get to the new menu.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: PAL assets cannot be imported into an NTSC project. - 12 years agoCreate an NSTC version of your video at 720x480 and import that into DVD SP. Have DVD SP do the conversion. It sounds like compressor exported your video to PAL instead of NTSC.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: Blurring, strobbing video. - 12 years agoDon't feed DVD SP anything other than SD resolution video. It doesn't resize video properly.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: what is the best Quicktime HD codec for crisp text in DVDSP? - 12 years agoDon't feed DVD SP anything other than a SD resolution file. It doesn't know how to scale video. Prepare your video at 720x480 anamorphic with 8 bit uncompressed. Check your video on a television monitor attached to your computer if you have one. This can avoid problems with scaling artifacts.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: Interlacing - 12 years agoTo avoid interlacing issues never feed DVD SP anything other than a standard definition video file. It doesn't scale video well. De-interlacing will completely change the look of the video and should be avoided. If your camera footage is interlaced, keep it interlaced all the way to the DVD.by brad - DVD Studio Pro Re: audio sync and compression quality - 12 years agoHandbrake basically sucks for hardware compatibility and audio syncing. I've heard of many people having the same problem. I wrote DVDxDV, so I would recommend using that first over anything else. The Pro version of DVDxDV let's you define in and out point at the resolution of one second using the expandable timeline. There's other solutions out there too, but I can't speak for the quality oby brad - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Questions burning 1920 x 1080 to standard DVD - 12 years agoI would look at the bitrate of the H.264 capability of the Blu-ray player. If the bitrate is really low as in below 10 megabits per second, go with the DVD. If you can produce a Blu-ray bitrate H.264 file, then the H.264 is going to look much better. Use compressor to create an H.264 file and test that. Make sure you know the client's Blu-ray player and test with that system.by brad - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: DVD jitters - 12 years agoIt sounds like either a field reversal issue or a video resizing issue. Always, export to a stand alone Quicktime Movie out of Final Cut at 720x480 anamorphic before importing into DVD SP. DVD SP doesn't know how to resize HD video, so don't give it any. I recommend proofing all of your video before you burn it to a DVD. You'll need an external monitor attached to your Mac to do this througby brad - Café LA Re: My Lacie external hard drive that has all my FCP projects has "corruption of the data on the drive" - 12 years agoI just want to add that I have heard more stories of LaCie drive failures than any other manufacturer. I have no idea why the Apple Store continues to carry them.by brad - Café LA Re: Support for HDVxDVI - 17 years agoI'm alive! I sent you an email response. Did you get it? Your spam filter may be blocking my email. This happens because many spam filtering is overly agressive these days. Bradby brad - Café LA Re: DVDxDV Surreal Sound Problem - 17 years ago1.09 is pretty old. 1.32 is the latest version. 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