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I was hoping someone could help me. I may even be in the wrong section of the forum.
I do not know much about creating DVDs, so I'm hoping that someone can walk me through this with the software that I have.
I have a bunch off episodic tv shows on VHS that I am trying to get to DVD. I am using my Canopus converter to digitze media into Avid DV Xpress Pro. I create the sequences I want and everything seems fine.
In attempting to create my DVD, I export the sequence as a quciktime reference. I do not have many options as far as export settings with quicktime reference. I have heard that AVID exports an odd field first which I am told can be problematic when trying to author DVDs (as a newbie at this, I don't know the details). The only way I can control my export settings is if I export the sequence as a quicktime movie. Avid only gives me a 2GB file limit, so it is impossible for me to export an hour long TV show.
I take my quicktime reference and run it through Sorenson Squeeze 3.1 (the only compression software I have). I want the best quality I can possibly get seeing that it is VHS source which does not look great. I choose an elementary data stream with MPEG-2 video (bottom field first). I bring my data rate up to 9800 and use a variable bit rate. I don't know what i frame rate is, but I've used 12 and 18. The audio is not a problem, so I will leave it out of the discussion.
When it finally squeezes and I bring it into Adobe Encore for authoring, it looks noticeably worse than my original quicktime reference. The blacks look completely crushed and the overall image is a definite step down.
I was just wondering what the best way to create DVDs is with the software I have (Avis DV Xpress Pro, Sorenson Squeeze 3.1, Adobe Encore). I bought a lot of this hardware because i was told that this was a great way to bring VHS and TIVO'ed material to DVD, but I am disappointed with my results.
If anyone could give me insight into this, I would greatly apprciate it.
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