Optimizing for film festivals

vitalforces wrote on 10/25/2004, 3:09 PM

Can anyone comment on whether there is any noticeable loss in picture quality for a 1:45 hr. DV movie squeezed onto a single-layer DVD disk? I filmed in 24p (DVX100) and have kept it 24p right through to the MPEG-2 render, which lets about 1 hour and 15 minutes fit on a DVD using a standard 24p video stream/AC3 audio template.

But the current project is going to run about 1 hour and 45 minutes. If I tell DVD-A2 to 'optimize' the project to fit the single DVD (festivals require one, not two, DVDs), does anyone have experience on whether to expect any visible loss of pix quality?

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ScottW wrote on 10/25/2004, 3:20 PM

Don't let DVDA optimize it - if you feed DVDA an mpeg file, DVDA will decompress and then re-compress, and there will be a loss of quality.

Go back to your original source material and render at a lower bit rate directly from Vegas.

--Scott

vitalforce wrote on 10/25/2004, 6:30 PM

Hadn't thought of that, makes perfect sense. Thanks much.

vitalforces wrote on 11/23/2004, 3:48 PM

The above post is now obsolescent: The dual-layer burners are here.