Best CCE 2.70 settings for 8mm --> DVD?

jmk396 wrote on 3/29/2006, 1:37 PM

I've used Sony Vegas 6.0d to transfer video from a MiniDV camera (which was connected to an 8mm camcorder) to capture some old 8mm footage.

So now I have a bunch of DVI AVI files that I want to put on a DVD using CCE. I've used a bitrate calculator to calculate a bitrate of 5931 but I've reduced it to 5700 (average bitrate, using 3-pass VBR).

1) Is that bitrate good enough? I've lowered it to 5700 from 5931 so I have some room on the DVD for the menus, etc.

2) Because the framerate is 29.97, CCE gives me various pulldown options: 2:3, 3:2, Inv 3:2 pulldown. Which should I use?

3) Should I enable 4:1:1 -> 4:2:2 interpolation?

Thanks for any help!

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 3/29/2006, 1:51 PM

You are talking about NTSC video stored on 8mm video cartridges, right? In that case 5700 is going to be perfectly adequate. Just use 29.97 and ignore all the pulldown stuff (that is for 24p video and for sound film).

I don't know about the colorspace interpolation, since I don't have the CCE encoder. Sounds like it might provide a slight improvement in the end result, but if there is a difference, I would expect it to be very subtle.