"alexz" <alexzenek@hotmail_spam_no.com> wrote in message news:3F841FA9.2D93A78B@hotmail_spam_no.com...

> David Ruether wrote:

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

> > of Sonic's MyDVD

> Once I took under magnifying glass DVD'it mpg2 and found terrible results.

> I trust only TMPGenc..:)).

> None of the authoring software offers option with mpg2 manipulation.

If you are looking for about 1-hour at best-quality, not too many

options are likely to change things much. I was surprised how

good the MyDVD (not DVDit...?) really is with VERY difficult

material (VX2000 image at a good stop, pan/tilt/zooming over

a very full flower garden on a sunny day - few encoders pass this

test consistently!).

> > Unfortunately, neither could

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

> > glitches at the joints.

> I have no problem with joining 9min pieces.

> I haven't noticed any glitches at the joints.

May depend on software differences, or data-rate. The Canopus encoder

can combine files while encoding - but output quality is not high enough...

> Anyway why not to use the option "capture as reference AVI files" which bypass

> problem with 9min pieces.

They exist from the edit...

> > Also, the black level gets raised, causing the image

> > to lose brilliance.

> I noticed that phenomena and during encoding with TMPgenc I usually correct gamma

> (-10) and color saturation ( +20).

Might work, if we could get TMPGenc to not crash at the 50% point,

though this is not a gamma issue, but a "black pedestal" issue - and

color should not need correction... I was looking for a good, yet a

cceptably straight-forward method of transferring Raptor DV to DVD.

So far, my method has been the easiest of the best I've found that work,

though not ideal when starting with Raptor files...

Watch out for surprises, though - several times we thought we had this

process down - only to find yet another "show-stopping" problem (let's

see if I can remember some...: crashing, blocking, black-lift, tone-jitter,

soft picture, audio out of synch [this last was the latest surprise - a test

RW disk was perfect, but the four R copies made immediately afterward

{with no changes} were consistently out of synch - now we copy the

successful RW disk to a HD, and "print" copies from that...).

> > 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

> Which utility?

> I am guessing ...export movie with settings Microsoft AVI ?

There are three ways to do this: reimport the video through an OHCI card

in MS codec; use the neat, quick conversion utility offered on the Canopus

site (it is lossless); or reincode Canopus codec files as MS codec files on

export of the timeline...

> Chris (Alex)

> http://www.booba.netfirms.com

> > 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

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