TimG
Well-known member
Hello all,
I've been using FCP for years now and I've always noticed that the material I burn to DVD using DVD Studio Pro never looks as good as a store bought DVD of say a TV show or Movie. I know that they author these things using hardware encoders and then press the copies instead of burning them but you would think you could come relatively close.
I'm starting with uncompressed SD material out of a Blackmagic capture card so the material looks very, very good. I compress it to MPEG-2 using Compressor at the highest encode quality (tried CBR 1-Pass 9.0, VBR 1-Pass 7.7 Avg and 9.0 Max and VBR 2-Pass 7.7 Avg and 9.0 Max) but it still has some artifacts. One video in particular where the camera is dollying past a woman in a flowing dress, there's always compression artifacts in the fabric of the dress. I do notice that when I use the "simulator" in DVDSP I do not see the artifacts in that video so I'm wondering if it's on the DVDSP end and not on the Compressor end. I checked the encode preferences in DVDSP and I've maxed those out too. . . . Very frustrating. Is there a work flow that I'm just not getting?
Thanks for the help.
Tim
I've been using FCP for years now and I've always noticed that the material I burn to DVD using DVD Studio Pro never looks as good as a store bought DVD of say a TV show or Movie. I know that they author these things using hardware encoders and then press the copies instead of burning them but you would think you could come relatively close.
I'm starting with uncompressed SD material out of a Blackmagic capture card so the material looks very, very good. I compress it to MPEG-2 using Compressor at the highest encode quality (tried CBR 1-Pass 9.0, VBR 1-Pass 7.7 Avg and 9.0 Max and VBR 2-Pass 7.7 Avg and 9.0 Max) but it still has some artifacts. One video in particular where the camera is dollying past a woman in a flowing dress, there's always compression artifacts in the fabric of the dress. I do notice that when I use the "simulator" in DVDSP I do not see the artifacts in that video so I'm wondering if it's on the DVDSP end and not on the Compressor end. I checked the encode preferences in DVDSP and I've maxed those out too. . . . Very frustrating. Is there a work flow that I'm just not getting?
Thanks for the help.
Tim