Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] DVD workflow

 

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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