How to get rid of DVD SP Blockyness

The "blockiness" happened to me when I've encoded inside DVDSP (or when I've downrezzed to SD from FCP), so I guess QT Pro blows when it comes to downrezzing. However, when I've compressed the footage inside either Compressor or Cleaner, the blockiness went away and I've gotten much nicer results.
 
pheboglobi said:
The "blockiness" happened to me when I've encoded inside DVDSP (or when I've downrezzed to SD from FCP), so I guess QT Pro blows when it comes to downrezzing. However, when I've compressed the footage inside either Compressor or Cleaner, the blockiness went away and I've gotten much nicer results.
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Yes! You nailed the problem I was having on the bud! Thanks to pheboglobi and everyone's else you gave their cents' worth.
I went through compressor, and my footage looked fine.
It was the quicktime conversion that was causing my video to blow up in blockiness in DVD SP.
Not as clean, obviously as my original HVX capture, but looks gorgeous anyway. Thank you to everyone who helped me in this thread!
Did I say how much I love this forum! A perfect resource and commumity.

What have settings have people been using in Compressor to get the best output in DVD SP?
 
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soarprod said:
Maybe in the past (before 5.1) but with 5.1, I have been happy with the results.
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I second that FCP Compressor 5.1 has shown no apparent problems with spiking or blockiness or blackness and I've seen it on an HDTV, computer screens, and projectors and nothing I can see. Also, it does dolby 2.0 transfer on Compressor 5.1 with the video and AIFF file. I also second that any downconversion out of Quicktime destroys the image for some reason - using Compressor 5.1 exclusively has led to zero problems for me. Glad you solved the problem!
 
DP StrangeLove said:
What have settings have people been using in Compressor to get the best output in DVD SP?
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That depends on the total length in minutes of the video, and what type of video is depicts, ie motion or talking heads.
 
David S. said:
What is the total length of the video in minutes?

Have you encoded to AC3/Dolby2, not uncompressed aiff?
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I'm curious after listening to an 9MB Dolby AC3 file and a 70MB aiff file of the same audio why the AC3 is superior? It saves space, but if you have a short to burn, why not go for uncompressed - it sounds much deeper and more full on the bass. Maybe I'm missing something. Need to burn one today and wondering which to use. Clarity of sound is key since this will be a fundraising video shown at an event.
 
I had the same problem (blocky dvd visuals). I had shot and editied at 1080P in final cut, and used iDVD to make a quick DVD version - which ended up looking terrible.

The way around this was to send the 1080p files to Compressor, and use one of the best DVD settings. ie. DVD Best Quality 90 mins. Then set the bitrate around 6mb/s. Make sure that it is all set up as PAL or NTSC and that Compressor creates a 'progressive' file.

Once the encode is complete, simply import it into DVDSP and make sure the bitrate is not too low - around 6-7 seems to work best - no higher. The results look great.
 
soarprod said:
Look above...
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I was looking for other opinions. I was curious as to what customized settings people have been using, as I have been doing. I find the the '90min' High Quality presets, don't do you justice.

You need to get in the system!
 
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CINEMANIAC said:
I'm curious after listening to an 9MB Dolby AC3 file and a 70MB aiff file of the same audio why the AC3 is superior? .
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It isn't a question of being superior.

It relates to compatibility and throughput.

AC3 audio is seven times less data intensive than uncompressed aiff audio.

That is consequential to whether a set top can play a DVD without artifacting or other issues.

If cost isn't an issue, and you want aiff, then you need to replicate.
 
Glad to see you got your problem fixed. I was so preplexed by this that I tried burning some of my own stuff to a DVD from uncompressed. It looked quite a bit cleaner and sharper than my DVX DVDs so I guess FCP just can't downrez.
 
Well, after I got my DVD looking better by using Compressor, it has now resorted to crashing again. Does anyone have this problem? It converts and compresses the files, but once I load it into DVD SP, it causes DVD SP to crash when I import the .m2v movie file.
And even my System Finder crashes when I click on the file on my desktop.
My video has a running time of only 03:00;00 (3 min). I had only one successful run in compressor when I had a shorter version (:30 sec) and it came out looking good, like everyone here suggested. And now it crashes everytime.
So now I have to resort back to quicktime conversion, getting blocky ugly video, just to make it work in DVD SP. Help!! It been driving me nuts. Why, why this insanity!?!
 
Check out this thread:

http://www.2-popforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86508




DP StrangeLove said:
Well, after I got my DVD looking better by using Compressor, it has now resorted to crashing again. Does anyone have this problem? It converts and compresses the files, but once I load it into DVD SP, it causes DVD SP to crash when I import the .m2v movie file.
And even my System Finder crashes when I click on the file on my desktop.
My video has a running time of only 03:00;00 (3 min). I had only one successful run in compressor when I had a shorter version (:30 sec) and it came out looking good, like everyone here suggested. And now it crashes everytime.
So now I have to resort back to quicktime conversion, getting blocky ugly video, just to make it work in DVD SP. Help!! It been driving me nuts. Why, why this insanity!?!
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