Exporting to DVD

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DaquanPender

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I'm finally done editing my feature film on avid. Is exporting the project as a QT movie from Avid the best way to keep the best quality? This is the final thing and I want optimal quality. Do I need to check anything special to keep the best quality? Also, what do I do with the final project (16 GB)? Is there an easy way I can compress it without losing quality or would it just be easier to take to a company who burns DVDs.

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Daquan Pender
 
Doing the authoring yourself? If so use quicktime reference from Avid to the Authoring software. If the company are doing the authoring then qt ref won't work.

To avoid any generation loss uncompressed is always the best way to go, we can discuss back and forth with this forever, but for each encoding you do have the possibility for quality loss. One alternative is to encode this to a DVD compliant mpeg2 stream yourself, which probably will be the most efficient regarding storage space. This ofcourse mean you need a proper mpeg2 encoder if you don't have that it all depends a bit on what format your project is, what kind of codecs and compression the effects are rendered in.

A few examples...

If format and effects where rendered to DV25 the most efficient way is to use the same codec, Avid DV.

If say HD and format for effects are DNxHD(insert bitrate...), then i would suggest using DNxHD at the same or higher bitrate than the effects/files where rendered to.
 
Thanks for your reply. I want to have the absolute best quality but I'm kind of technically deficient (obviously). I think I'd rather take it to a company just to make it as easy as possible. I have an external hard drive, what would be the best format to deliver my project from Avid to them? Are you saying the 16 gig Quicktime movie that I exported from Avid is not going to work for them? Thanks again for your help, sorry for being slow.
 
If using a QT reference, you will have to mixdown your sequence first.
It's an avid bug that creates interlacing on precomutes. You'll have heck with any motion effects aven after mixing down. I have had best luck literally laying the show off to tape and repaturing it for authoring. I know it sounds rediculas but it solves far too many problems for me to question now.
 
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