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Encoder quirks

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?

Another thought I had was that maybe the quality IS there, but the mac can9t
display it (similar to the smooting9 of DV files when viewed on the mac
screen). I opted for the dual processor G4 primarily for video work, trying
to avoid buying a DVD-R drive for authoring. Do I need to preview on a real
DVD player or use something such as the Wired4DVD card to display the PAL
and NTSC images correctly on my Sony Production monitor? At the moment the
only way of displaying the MPEG2 streams is to build a DVD disc image and
play it in Apple DVD Player. This seems a little dodgy and I am sure there
is a better way.

This is a tad confusing and frustrating. HELP!

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Regards,

Aaron Young
Technical Assistant
JOHN FLUTTER DENTAL Pty Ltd
Gladstone, Queensland, Australia

"These days I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter..
I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm here after".



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