Professional Quality DVD

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superhardrocker

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People that shoot HD say, when they put their videos on a dvd. The quality goes down and it looks crappy. But...I was wondering about Professional DVD's/Movie's you get at blockbuster or buy. The quality looks very very good. (not talking about the hd dvds or blu ray)
I was wondering if you guys know what they are doing different? Besides having much better cameras, They probably use super compressors?
Did you guys watch those apple vs. mac commercials on www.apple.com?
The quality looks hd, but the size is soo small. They probably use a super new compressor?
So what do you guys say?
 
They use really expensive compression programs that let them individually set the bit rates for each scene. It's a juggling act that lets them get the best quality at under a certain file size. But if you'll noticed that not all of the DVD released by major studios have pristine transfer. Sometimes you just can't get everything you want into a DVD and sacrifices have to be made, but they're able to select where they want to sacrifice quality.
 
i woudl love ot hear this as well. my image are suffering terribly when they burn to dvd.

i export it as AVI, and then use Nero Vision on highest quality 2vbr to create my dvds. am i doing wrong?
 
i shot with the m2 and the footage look like it was shot on film, but after compression and put it on dvd (dvd pro) the footage looks like **** (video).........I know a better way, but cost alot of money
 
I use sorenson squeeze 4 and encode at 16:9 2pass vbr. Watched back on my HDTV looks great. Dark footage does come out kinda bleh sometimes.
 
2 years ago i made a trailer for my movie with my hd footage .burned them in idvd. boy was i dissapointed in the picture. then i hade a chance to see a buddys sd prodject dvd up on the big screen back to back with mine. his was sent to new york to be compressed i was told that each shot because it is surf footage is looked at seperately to how thay compress that clip. wow his looked like hd , mine looked like crap. played both on a $30. dvd player. the last dvds i have made through the upgraded fcp i used the smoothcam for the opening sequence had my edit guru put it through mpeg2 in compressior . took awhile ,looks at each frame twice . then burnt to dvd . huge improvement over my old trailer dvd i spat out of my old imovie old idvd out of my old 2.1 i book laptop. recap. to get good images light is everthing, to get good dvds, compression is everthing.
 
my original plan was to only do my hd surf movie in blu ray . or sell it on one disc that will work in both dvd or blu ray player. i thought by now ,3 years later, alot of people would have a blu ray player . no such luck. my hd movie will have to be in dvd to make any sales. looks like i would release it latter in blu ray. being me ,i only want people to see the full hd footage . hd discs seem to not interest ,joe public as much as i thought. maybe another 3 years. looks like a reg dvd release for me .
 
Quality of a DVD movie Greatly relies on how many passes of compression it had. 98% of commercial compressors only do 2 pass compression while Cinecraft encoder can do an almost unlimited amount of passes. Each pass will make rendertime twice as long so that can get out of hand rather easily. We encode 6 pass to DVD and it looks just like those 'Supercompressor' DVD's.

I cannot help you any further with cinemacraft so I'd say google is thou friend :).
 
Daan Pol said:
Quality of a DVD movie Greatly relies on how many passes of compression it had. 98% of commercial compressors only do 2 pass compression while Cinecraft encoder can do an almost unlimited amount of passes. Each pass will make rendertime twice as long so that can get out of hand rather easily. We encode 6 pass to DVD and it looks just like those 'Supercompressor' DVD's.

I cannot help you any further with cinemacraft so I'd say google is thou friend :).
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Lol, only $2,000!
 
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Looking into to cinemacraft...can't find anything comprehensive.

Is it working on mutithreaded mac machines?

2,000 bucks is a lot but when you stretch it over a lot of projects or compressing for hire, it isn't bad.

Anyone have more info.?

Mr. Google isn't getting me far and the cinemacraft web site is weird.

-rook
 
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