Re: [Avid-L2] DVD workflow

i'd go with lossless.
b

On May 23, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Lou Wirth wrote:

> Im going AE as well. Has great downscaling. But now which codec? Compressor wont take h.264 right? And I have to keep the file size around 4 gigs for SD DVD right? So what is a good alt which I can then take to DVD.
>
> thanks
> Lou
> On May 23, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Bruce Tovsky wrote:
>
> > i'd take AE over Avid any day, hands down.
> > b
> >
> > On May 23, 2012, at 12:51 PM, David Ross wrote:
> >
> >> Whatever you're happiest doing the downscale with. I've used Avid
> >> before, and it's fine, but you may find AE gives better results. Not
> >> sure about Sorenson.
> >>
> >> D.
> >>
> >> On 23 May 2012 17:32, Lou Wirth <loutv@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>> Great advice. thanks. Is it best to just export and downscale in Avid? Or use the QT reference in something else. AE? Sorenson?
> >>>
> >>> Lou
> >>> On May 23, 2012, at 9:14 AM, David Ross wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Best practice is to downscale to SD first, then make your DVD mpeg
> >>>> from that. Your mpeg picture quality will generally be much better
> >>>> that way.
> >>>>
> >>>> D.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 23 May 2012 16:50, Lou Wirth <loutv@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi
> >>>>> I have a 2 hour program shot 720/60 that needs to go to DVD. Sequence is
> >>>>> cut on MC 5.5. I exported a QT reference from Avid and used in Squeeze
> >>>>> (which took forever to format) and then just burned in Studio Pro. But the
> >>>>> video looks fuzzy and goes in and out of blur. First attempt in Squeeze left
> >>>>> me with a 6gig video file which failed in DVD burn so I set the size down to
> >>>>> 3 gigs in Squeeze and went again. But as I say, its funky video.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was going to try compressor but for some reason wont accept the QT
> >>>>> reference so wondering if I should export a movie from Avid first. I don't
> >>>>> normally work with projects of this length so any suggestions to get this
> >>>>> thing looking decent on DVD would be helpful.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thanks
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Lou
> >>>>
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