Final DVD looks like sh.... Compressor problem

berlinfool

berlinfool

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Guys,
I created this demo reel for an actor friend of mine and the footage looked great until I sent it through compressor.
I used the MPEG-2 60min High Quality encode settings.
That should give a good SD image right?
I doesn't though.
After I build it with DVD Studio Pro onto my desktop and replayed it with the Apple DVD player it looked downgraded from the original.
The origial was mostly from DV tape and a ripped DVD.
 
Are you watching it at your screen's full resolution? You need to do it at the NORMAL size... sheesh!! Or watch it on a tv.

Plus, I really like the 90 minute best quality even for stuff under 60 minutes. Gives me a nice clean dvd.

CaptM
 
berlinfool said:
After I build it with DVD Studio Pro onto my desktop and replayed it with the Apple DVD player it looked downgraded from the original.
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How downgraded does it look? Essentially going from 13gig/hr to 4gig/hr is going to kick the footage in the nuts a bit. How does it look when played back on a TV?


-A
 
Of course it looks downgraded- MPEG-2 is high compressed. This is where color correction, range checking and careful placement of compression markers will really come in handy. But will it look as good as the original- never.

Noah
 
The only clip that looks bad is the one I extracted from a DVD in Uncompressed 8-bit stream.
In FCP 6 I set everything to NTSC-DV and the clip plays nicely in the Canvas.
After I put in on DVD I can see the pixelation and there are lines across.

Is there some kind of rendering I can do in FCP?
 
Ah ok now that makes sense. So you are ripping from a DVD and it doesn't look as good as the original. Well again no kidding- you're taking a highly uncompressed MPEG-2 and then recompressing it essentially twice. Not a big shocker it's going to look bad. The best way to avoid this is stick with material you have the the original media for. And if that's not possible you can't expect miracles- especially now that Chuck Heston is gone...

Noah
 
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