DVD for LED screen

Rory Cooper wrote on 8/4/2008, 5:45 AM

What are the best settings for cutting a DVD for LED screens

Also interlaced or progressive any ideas?

thanks

Rory

Comments

farss wrote on 8/4/2008, 6:23 AM

Those things can be all over the place, the good ones are pretty good, the bad or badly setup ones fall into the "if its got color and it moves it's video" category. Unless you can get to preview your work on the target display I'd suggest keep it pretty bright and cheery i.e. don't go for a subtle look.

Technically a LED display could do interlace but I doubt they do. Then again they seem to accept standard video feeds so I'd leave it as what you shot it.

Bob.

Rory Cooper wrote on 8/4/2008, 6:58 AM

Thanks farss

If I cut progressive footage to a dvd then it automatically becomes interlaced is that correct

Most of my stuff is live so I just supply mpeg files so I am not up to speed with DVDs

GlennChan wrote on 8/4/2008, 9:26 AM

DVDs have a mode for chroma encoding for progressive images and interlaced images. The interlaced method is not as good but the progressive method won't work (well) on interlaced images.

You can store progressive images on a DVD... when it gets played back out, the images might get sent over an interlaced interface (like NTSC composite). The frame is just broken up into two fields and sent that way. I have no idea what the display will do to progressive/interlaced images... though I suspect it is safe/better to send it progressive images. If you check your work on the screen then you'd find out if it looks good or not.