Advice about Digibeta to DVD

zoostory

zoostory

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Hey all,

So I shot a 16mm film, have a finished film print, a 5.1 audio mix, and from a low con print telecined to digibeta.

So I now have a 29.97 3:2 pulled-down DigiBeta Master with LtRt audio sitting at home.


I would like to make the best possibly quality DVDs from this master, as well as DV Dubs and DigiBeta dupes for screening purposes. Thing is, I wanted to do a little touch up first, clone out a few pieces of dirt, etc.

I am looking for the cheapest way to do all this and still have the best quality MPEG2 file for DVD.

My current thought is to go to a digial post house (like digitalfilm tree) house and capture from digibeta to an uncompressed 4:2:2 10-bit file. Rev-Pull that down to 23.98 (My 5.1 audio is already good to go for 23.98, already time-shifted from 24) Clean it up at home in shake, then take it back to that house to write it back to DV and DigiBeta, and find another house with a good hardware MPEG2 converter. From there I can author the DVD myself.

Of course, this is the expensive way. If anyone knows any cheap work arounds, let me know.

My other option, the ghetto way, is to just do a dub to DV, capture that, rev-pulldown, clean it up, and use compressor to make my DVDs. While this is good in the short run, I am almost sure that it won't be as good as going from an uncompressed digiBeta with a hardware MPEG2 converter.

Does anyone have any experience with any of these workflows? Is it worth the $200.00 an hour to get the uncompressed file? Thoughts?

thanks!
 
The first thing is if your movie is 2.5 hr then you want to use dual layer to keep your quality up close to the limit of the dvd standard. Remember that 5.1 audio takes up more room than stereo so you need all of the bits you can get. Theres a tutorial dvd floating around here someplace that I have that shows the difference between digibeta and four other formats and its remarkable to see the difference shooting on film or digibeta makes when going to dvd when compared to the rest. The color lose from all of the others was obvious and just didn't stand up to digibeta when converted to mpeg2. ( HVX-200 ) and similar cameras weren't out when this was done. If your project is for a commercial sales product then pay the price and you wont be unhappy with the great results that using digibeta will supply. Good luck.:)
 
Thanks, It's only 11 minutes :) But the quality question is what I was looking for. IF you could find that link to that tutorial I would be much obliged!
 
Hi It took me a while to track this puppy down. Its called (DVD 101 A COMPLETE HOW- TO GUIDE). It's on EBAY for $34.95. This is not a tutorial on how to work with DigiBeta but an overview of the DVD making process, but has a comparison of how JVC D-9, digibeta,Beta SP, and MiniDV stack up against each other, showing 4 differerent codec setting for each.
I hope this helps. Its cool to see the difference between Digibeta and DV.
 
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