IDVD quality question
Hi, I just purchased a canon s2is digicam that takes pretty high quality avi's, I have found that if I drag the files straight to a dvd menu in idvd that it works, very easy way to tranfer my movies to dvd. However I want to ensure they are being transfered at the highest quality possible....can anyone comment on the quality of idvd compared to others for this process.
thanks Scott
thanks Scott
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if it works for you, stay with that workflow. can not imagine, you can "add" quality with other tools...
almost lossless transfer of your movies.
open quicktime pro and export your avi's to animation, this will give you a large mov file.
open up compressor and select highest quallity 60min, this will give you an mpg2 file
finally import this to you dvd studio, make a menu and burn.
I am still hoping to find a better way but at least I found one way
I never realized how bad mpeg2 was til I started messing with this.
BTW in my experimentation I exported my avi to h.264 with quicktime pro....it took forever but I could not tell the difference from the original.....very cool codec if they can get the speed up.
I have not used it for making Mpeg2 for DVD but it says it can. If it can read your source files you might be able to go straight to Mpeg2 in one step.
On the subject of lossless compression, I tried loads of codecs to see which was the best for storing computer generated images and I tried all sorts including DV, mjpeg etc and there were only two codecs out of all the quicktime ones that didn't produce flickering: animation and pixlet. I actually opted for pixlet because it saves more space. The only problem I have is that FCP has a hard time converting it.
kind of video has been high enough quality to consider .
I would put the quality of the video just a notch below the minidv format and far above the 8mm format....and really it is better than my minidv tr9..but that camera has its own set of problems anyway