Well, we were just burning the DVD with MyDVD
of the six short videos, with the one that was
not good enough encoded by the Canopus MPEG2
encoder replaced with an MPEG2 file made by
MyDVD on a test disk, then copied. This failed.
We then replaced the file with an MS-codec
converted AVI file and let MyDVD encode it. This
failed the first time (error message near the
end of the process before actual writing to
disk), but on the second attempt, the error
message did not appear, and the disk is now
being written... If this disk works, it appears
we will use the MS codec when editing and
producing files for DV and use MyDVD for making
the disks - or, if the material is not "difficult"
(with a lot of motion with fine detail [tests
indicated that I prefer good detail along with
minor artifacting to reduced detail with less
artifacting...]), use the Canopus codec and
MPEG2 encoder (it looks good when it doesn't
fail, and permits up to about 1.5 hours of
material on a disk with the same image quality
as MyDVD-encoded 1-hour disks - and there are
times when I need to make disks that slightly
exceed 1 hour, but without the quality-losses
resulting from making 2-hour encodes). So,
we ****MAY**** be getting close to having two
methods for burning DVDs (the choice depending
on encoding-difficulty of the source material,
and on the disk play-length required). Ah,
the finished disk just popped out......;-)
On Sat, 31 May 2003 07:57:15 -0700, "Tom Smale"
<iNew$@$maleremovethis.net> wrote:
>Yes. Thanks for your posts on MPEG2 encoding.
>I'm still awaiting a solid VBR solution, hopefully
posted by you when it
>arrives!
>I currently use the same as you.
>
>In fact if you look at the leading edge posts in this NG
over the past 3
>years, you'll see a trend.
>First posts about not being able to capture. Then posts
about not being able
>to edit and file size limitations. Then posts about
MPEG2 encoding, and DVD
>burning. And most recently posts about printing onto
DVDs (and audio!).
>
>It makes you wonder whether DV editing for DVDs ever
really worked to any
>decent quality standard on a PC! I know it didn't and
could never on the
>Compaq I was sold for video editing 3 years ago.
>I certainly wish I'd got a MAC with FCP a long while
ago. I'd have spent a
>lot more time editing footage rather than futzing around
installing a grab
>bag of software from different vendors and figuring out
why stuff doesn't
>work.
>
>--tom
>"Neuman - Ruether" <d_ruether@hotmail.com>
wrote in message
>news:3eddb44b.6658248@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...
>> (Mis)Adventures in DVD-Writing...
>>
>> A ways back I posted a comparison of various
>> MPEG2 encoders we tried (including a couple
>> that crashed on our system), made a selection
>> of Sonic's MyDVD and Ulead's Video Studio
>> (ver. 6 SE-DVD) as the two that were both
>> easiest to use, and with the best encoding
>> quality of ones we successfully tried. The
>> Ulead software offered some advantages, so
>> that is what we were going to go with until
>> a fatal glitch made itself evident: with
>> Canopus Raptor files, the blacks were
"killed"
>> by the double-raising of the NTSC black
>> pedestal from RGB 0-0-0 to 16-16-16, then to
>> 32-32-32. UGH! No way around it! Fortunately,
>> we discovered that there is a Canopus MPEG2
>> encoder that is easy to use, works as a
>> Premiere 6 plug-in, and which solves the
>> (lack of) black problem. After running
>> successful tests with this, we burned a DVD
>> thinking we now had a successful, direct,
>> easy to use DVD-writing process available.
>> Unfortunately, in the difficult areas of the
>> video that had previously passed the tests,
>> the Canopus encoder failed when making a
>> whole DVD. Back to square 5 or so...;-)
>> On the Canopus web site is a lossless file
>> type conversion utility, so we converted the
>> part of the DVD that failed with the Canopus
>> encoder to MS-codec, and ran the Ulead on
>> it (time-consuming, and "not neat"). This
at
>> least worked and maintained good blacks, so
>> now we are about (possibly....;-) to burn a
>> successful DVD with all six short videos on
>> it - but the amazing number of "hoops" we
>> jumped through to do this makes me think
>> this DVD-writing stuff is not yet ready for
>> "prime time", unless one just gives in
and
>> uses the MS DV-codec in the first place.
>> Darn...! ;-)
>> David
Ruether