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Re: Encoder quirks

Hi there:

I am afraid that what you are suffering from is a case of
DVDITIS.
That is, DV can not handle graphics very well, actually graphics
is the one area were DV truly sucks, DV is great for home videos
and for news reporing or documentaries. I like to think of DV as
the MP3 of video, so don't expect your DV projects to look like
"The Matrix".
One way to solve your problem, I am afraid, is to shoot your
footage next time in DigiBeta, edit uncompressed on an AVID and
export a lossless quicktime movie as MPEG-2. If you want quality
you must avoid using DV compression entirely. Is it more
expensive this way? You bet. Also probably not worth it and I am
sure someone else will come up with another alternative 'cause
God knows there are many.

Daniel C.
www.dvdartstudio.com

> Hi there all, thanks for the great read always.
>
> I have been using the Apple encoder to make the m2v files for DVDSP to
> use.
> My video content varies and some video looks great and with other
stuff,
> particularly text, diagrams and other animations, quality seems to vary
> once
> encoded. All my source MiniDV material is edited with Final Cut Pro
> 1.2.5
> and made MPEG2 by the Export to QuickTime (as the DVDSP manual
> suggests).
> It seems that when I use the medium setting in the Apple MPEG2 Encoder,
> then
> the text and diagrams look fine, but the DV footage shows strong
> compression
> artifacts. When I use the maximum setting in the encoder, the
artifacts
> go
> away but the horizontal pixels look thicker9 and make the text
> difficult to
> read and diagrams look jaggy and terrible. Is this the punishment for
> doing
> something wrong in production? Or is the Apple Encoder not what it9s
> cracked
> up to be?



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