Creating a dvd without a ton of aliasing

[Jed Shepherd]

So I'm trying to create a dvd out of my red project but my first two attempts using dvd studio pro were horrible. I own pirates 4 and its pretty much spot on so i was wondering if anyone has any tips/tricks/settings to use? Is it better to export from compressor as mpeg2 and then send that to dvd studio pro? Any help would be awesome.

Thanks

 

[Jed Shepherd]

BUMP.

 

[Marc Wielage]

There are some good tutorials about the use of Compressor and DVD Studio Pro over on the LA Final Cut Pro User Group. Some of the settings are not obvious and require some trial and error, but it can be done. I'd have to say, though, that Compressor is not exactly the most user-friendly program out there.

I've taken some straight Rec709 files and used Compressor to create standard-def files that burn fine just using Toast. You can also preview the files on the Mac, and that'll immediately show you if there's any compression artifacts, aliasing, image judder, and so on.

 

[Adam Eden]

Use Sorrenson Squeeze, in my opinion the output for MP2 is the best looking. I use Squeeze everyday

 

[Christian Berg-Nielsen]

What is your source material? I have had problems making dvd's with compressor/dvd studio pro when the source material is 1080p. I have never been able to make a nice downscale to SD with those programs (anti aliasing problems, pixelation etc)

My workaround have been scaling it down in FCP 7 or AE. E.g. if you have a 1080p prores 4x4, put it in a SD anamorphic prores 4x4 FCP timeline and put that through compressor afterwards.

 

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

Have you looked into the Resizing control inside the inspector for the various presets? If you switch on frame controls you can change it from "Better" to "Best"

 

[Uli Plank]

Try downsizing in Resolve (Lite) – IMHO one of the best scalers in the industry.

 

[Mark Toia]

NTSC is the problem... 720 tiny litttle pixels, compressed into some crap MPEG codec burnt onto a disc, then playing through a field based DVD player watching only you 350 lines per second...
You have been looking at HD progressive scan on your computer monitors for so long... you just get used to it.

NTSC DVD's just look so bad!!!! I fell into the same ugly trap a few weeks ago... UGLY !!!! I'm so glad NTSC and PAL is dead!

 

[Jed Shepherd]

Oddly enough i let the director of the shoot make a dvd and he didnt check any settings on whatever program he used but he burnt an NTSC dvd and it looked so bad. When i burnt a PAL one it looked much better. Either way both had a heap of aliasing. We submitted the project on a hdcam tape which was fine but i want to burn dvd copies for everyone who worked on it so i will stuff around with a few settings and hopefully can make something that looks good. Even if that means re-exporting it all as sd before burning.

NTSC is the problem... 720 tiny litttle pixels, compressed into some crap MPEG codec burnt onto a disc, then playing through a field based DVD player watching only you 350 lines per second...
You have been looking at HD progressive scan on your computer monitors for so long... you just get used to it.

NTSC DVD's just look so bad!!!! I fell into the same ugly trap a few weeks ago... UGLY !!!! I'm so glad NTSC and PAL is dead!