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[UnderAttak]

I have a few videos I will be making a DVD on, and they are set to 16:9 (don't ask what kind of videos )

Anyways, I will be converting them to NTSC which is no problem. The question I had is to save myself time, I would like to avoid using the animation codec (.mov files). I've had problems trying to import Sorenson3 movies into DVD Studio Pro, although apparently it's supposed to accept that codec.

What codecs would you all prefer that encode quickly and still retain most of the quality. H.264? These will be encoded with a bitrate of 6400 mbps.

[funkysoul]

DVD's dont' use H264, so keep all those "new" codecs out of the way and use MPEG2 (The DVD standard)

Software like: TMPGENC & Premiere can output directly to the conformed format.

have a look at: http://www.videohelp.com for more informations

[UnderAttak]

Well DVDSP will automatically convert whatever MOV I import into the MPEG-II, but for some reason the quality is a lot lower when I encode into MPEG-2 out of After Effects, Premier, and Final Cut and then import into DVDSP. But when I encode to animation or some other quicktime codec and then import into DVDSP, the quality is retained.

What's weird is the settings are the same in terms of quality and bitrates.

BTW nice link there. Lots of info on there.

Edited by UnderAttak, 30 November 2006 - 07:15 PM.

[funkysoul]

can you explain more closely lower quality?
You see pixels or lines flowing through the screen when it comes to fast movements? Post some screenys so I can maybe see what is the problem

Thanks

[UnderAttak]

Nope its not an interlacing problem or anything like that, but when I say lower quality, thats what I lterally mean. There are huge boxes of grain and noise on dark areas, some anti-aliasing, fuzzy spots, etc. Just really really low quality compared to the original file.

Edited by UnderAttak, 30 November 2006 - 07:20 PM.

[funkysoul]

tbh.. Never ran into that kind of problem.
I usually work with raw avi's or mpegs and mov's

From which source are you importing this?

[UnderAttak]

these are torrents that my brother have DLed for me, avi's.

[funkysoul]

jump over to videohelp.com and download the avi analyzer (or something like that) with it you should be able to see with which codec the video has been encoded.