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Re: quality question

You should always re-size or crop to 720x480 BEFORE encoding, or your video will
be forcibly (and not always accurately) resized.

Also, every compression scheme introduces artifacts of some sort. Get a Hollywood
DVD and get real close to your TV set. They are everywhere.

The principal quality difference between Hollywood's encoders and ours is we have
to use bit-rates double or triple theirs to get the same quality... But we can
get it.

If you have six-figures to drop on a High-end MPEG encoder, go for it. DVD SP can
always use DVD compliant MPEG streams from other encoders besides the QT
Exporter.

JD




dovecom wrote:

> email@hidden said:
>
> > their living rooms, and
> > if the world comes to that I do not want to be here. Your material should be
> > strong enough to withstand minor technical problems. Maybe the material you
> > are creating isn't good enough for anything other than quickie proofs,
> > weddings and family videos. NO matter how high the quality of the input. The
> > combination of DVD SP, and FCP can't be beat. People said the same thing
> > about miniDV when it appeared, its not good enough, it's low quality, it's
> > not acceptable.... These new technolgies allow millions of new people to
> > express themselves like never before, so I'm all for for it.... Get a G4,
> > FCP, and DVD SP and create...... So other filmmakers take heed, the Apple
> > encoder gets the job done fine.
>
> for you, it works, and that's fine. For us, with the type of material we
> produce, which is a mid-end (16 x 9, shot on D-9, lots of variation in types
> of material, including lots of motion, plus stills from very old archival
> material, and motion graphics, well, it isn't good enough. motion artifacts,
> the odd interlace issue with 720 x 486 material, gamma shifts, etc. These
> things ARE NOT acceptable to a professional. We color correct our work
> carefully for a reason. I don't like losing all of that work. And I can't
> ship DVDs to clients if those discs have artifacts. The Apple encoder is
> okay for low-end DV acquired material. It's not good enough for what we
> produce.
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