I use Premiere for editing, and liked the quality of MPEG2 encoding

of Sonic's MyDVD and Ulead's Video Factory as much as any

of the several we could successfully run. Unfortunately, neither could

put together the 9-minute+ pieces of Canopus-encoded video without

glitches at the joints. Also, the black level gets raised, causing the image

to lose brilliance. Canopus' own Mpeg2 encoder did not have these

problems, but the encoder did not handle difficult parts without "blocking"

in the image. Also, when going to write the disk with MyDVD, mixing

codecs (some Canopus, some MS) caused a crash unless only one file

was odd, in which case it *might* work. Since I prefer to edit with the

Canopus codec, if I'm going to make a DVD, I convert the files to

MS codec using the neat Canopus utility for this, and then proceed.

The files join seemlessly, have the original tonality, and MPEG2-encode

at the highest quality I've seen, and without blocking. If I were starting

over, I would consider going MS-codec all the way if I were making

a lot of DVDs, for the greater simplicity... (I hope I managed this well

enough in the midst of a fever...;-).

--

David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com

"someone" <mike@xyz.com> wrote in message news:blvlh109qk@enews1.newsguy.com...

> Interesting comment about the Canopus Codec for DVD. I'm no DVD maven with

> a whole 2 weeks of ownership under my belt but I have no problems converting

> Canopus video to MPEG2 using ProCoder LE from the Edius timeline. I've yet

> to make a 'coaster' with the DVD burner (Sony 510 stand-alone).

>

> What specifically prompted you comment, David?

> "David Ruether" <rpn1@no-junk.cornell.edu> wrote in message

> news:blvdh1$vg$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu...

> >

> > The likely cause: the chipset used for the FireWire connection

> > is not video-friendly (we had this same problem with two of

> > our three fast computers, and installing a TI-chipset FireWire

> > card [and/or the Raptor...] - after uninstalling the driver for the

> > built- in FireWire and disabling it [great, huh?! - really "video-ready"

> > some of these new computers are not!]). BTW, old 200MHz

> > PCs work just fine with the Raptor and old IDE drives - speed is

> > not the issue... Also BTW, it is easier to write DVDs from MS-codec

> > files than from Canopus-codec files (darn...! ;-). And, also, also BTW,

> > I also hate computers - but they *can* help us (sometimes...;-) do

> > things we couldn't do otherwise...

> > --

> > David Ruether