(NEWBIE) Serious Problems with final DVD project Please Help
by Mindcrime
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May 18, 2006 at 1:48:52 pm
Hi, I used 2 Sony HDR-FX1 cameras and captured a dance recital, I captured to Final Cut Pro Hd v5
on a G5 6g Ram, finished all my edits, I renderd and burned my test DVD, used MPEG 2, author DVD title, Variable Bitrate 5-7, we used compressor. and the final DVD sucks, its Jittery and grainy, we are new to this so any help would be a blessing, thank you in advance
MC
Re: (NEWBIE) Serious Problems with final DVD project Please Help by Lee Burrows on May 18, 2006 at 2:58:47 pm
Hello. First off DV/HDV material is going to more grainy as this is a more compressed codec than say photo-jpeg taking in via an AJA-IO or Blackmagic video capture card. The jittery motion might be caused from compression in the wrong field order so you might try another field order under your field dominance settings. I believe DV is upper field dominance instead of lower.
My advice to you for the best DVD you are going to get is to export your project using quicktime conversion into the same codec as your sequence so if it is a DV or HDV sequence that you are working in then export it to that using QT conversion. If you are working with HDV footage then you might try the H264 codec when you do your QT conversion as I have had ppretty good results exporting my HDV sequences in the past to the H264 codec. Set everything to best. Then open your compression program( I assume compressor) and import your QT conversion file. Set all the settings to best/highest quality in your comprpession program and compress. A couple of setting that will help is to set your GOP to IP instead of IBBP and use a Constant Bit Rate of 7 roughly. You might search all the forums to see what the best CBR bit rate would be for the DV codec. This will give you the best possible mpeg2 for your DVD. Import the mpeg 2 into your DVD program and burn.
Good Luck
Lee
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Re: (NEWBIE) Serious Problems with final DVD project Please Help by Chris Poisson on May 18, 2006 at 7:54:49 pm
My advice would be to read this article and do everything it says. See section 4 about the benefits of sending to Compressor directly from FCP as opposed to outputting a movie. Very good stuff here.
Also, check out Compressor's preview window and what you can do with it and the filters in the inspector. Remove grain might help, and you can preview the relults.
