5D footage burned to DVD not as sharp????

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So i did a music video with this new camera, don't know if any of you have heard of it before, it's called the Canon 5D Mark II (dripping with sarcasm there).

I took the footage straight out of the camera and converted it to Apple prores 422 for editing. Used Compressor with DVD Best quality under 90min, then burned it with DVD Studio Pro.

I watched the DVD in my XBOX 360 and the image is not as sharp as I was thinking it would be. My project settings in FCP I kept at 1080. Even in the preview window in DVDSP the image looks a little soft.

Any ideas??
 
It's never going to look anywhere near as sharp once you take it to DVD seeing as you're taking a 1080 file down to 480.
My guess is all you're seeing is the difference between HD and SD - which is unfortunate, but unavoidable when going to DVD.
 
I've done other projects through the same process but with HVX footage and it seems to be a lot sharper. Granted, it was shot 720p. This IS the first time i've done a project in 1080. Maybe I was just getting used to seeing the image so crisp on my computer screen.

It also did seem to bring down the brightness of the colors too. Same thing???
 
whenever dowsampling footage or photos you are asking your software to combine pixels and average them out. It's true that your footage is lower resolution but one of the side effects of the downsampling algorithm is loss of edge definition. To compensate you should apply a small amount of unsharp mask to your footage to bring out the sharpness of your edges.

I'm not sure how this compares to final cut but with premiere it's preferable to rescale your footage in an SD project rather than having the encoder do the downsampling.
 
Converting a 2.0736 Megapixel image into a 0.3456 Megapixel image might, just might reduce the resolution somewhat... Also SD video has a lot of color space restrictions, and actually the color resolution in NTSC SD 4.1.1 video is only 0.0864 Megapixels...

Why do you think BluRay has been introduced lately???
 
The answer is Blu-ray

The answer is Blu-ray

I bought an external Bluray burner specifically for this reason and I'm happy I did. I recently did a project that was shot all in Full raster and when I took it to SD DVD it looked like crap. I bought the Bluray and It was like night and Day.
 
In Compressor, enable "Frame Controls" and change the resize filter to "Statistical Prediction" and that should improve your downscale results.

You might also try directly exporting from FCP (using the Quicktime Conversion option, rather than Quicktime Movie) and doing your rescale there (720x480 for NTSC) into Prores. Then take that prores file and give that to Compressor.

You might want to add some sharpening at the Compressor stage to help the SD resolve a bit more detail.
 
Petrus said:
Converting a 2.0736 Megapixel image into a 0.3456 Megapixel image might, just might reduce the resolution somewhat... Also SD video has a lot of color space restrictions, and actually the color resolution in NTSC SD 4.1.1 video is only 0.0864 Megapixels...

Why do you think BluRay has been introduced lately???
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DVD is 4:2:0 actually. He said that he has had seemingly better results with his HVX downsampled, it seems he is anticipating a lower resolution but that shouldn't mean not sharp, just not as detailed.
 
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