MPEG settings in FCP & Elements

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 6/9/2008, 11:35 AM

Our clients uses FCP or Adobe Premiere does anyone of a common setting so I get the file from them ready to burn with no re-rendering?

Some times we have to get all the files form diffrent technicians on site an dmake a countiues file, at present I get the AVI/MOV and re-render in V8 pro. would be better if they coucl do the rendering, so saving time and I just drop the clips in DVD-A as a playlist.

Had one last Friday with about 30mins of render, taking nearly 45 minutes on my duo core laptop. needs to ready in 15 max

Thanks

Comments

MPM wrote on 6/10/2008, 6:20 AM

All you need is DVD-spec mpg2, which is pretty standard really.

The only oddity is that DVDA used to require & still prefers mpg vs m2v - I run the video-only stream thru TMPGEnc’s MPEG Tools using simple mux without an audio file, but your clients could just as easily give you muxed files with audio.

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 6/12/2008, 10:26 AM

I have the answer for Adobe Elements,

If you export the video as PAL DVD 720x576 is perfect DVD-A no re-render required. If placed into V8 pro and then re-render out at the 8mps no re-render is required.

Lyris wrote on 6/14/2008, 9:42 PM

I think the only thing DVD Architect requires is that you obey the maximum GOP size as per the DVD spec. Off the top of my head, for a PAL DVD, that's 15 frames, for NTSC it's 18. When DVD Architect insists on recompressing seemingly valid MPEG-2 files, that's usually the reason.