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Re: WAY OT: DVD authoring software



Almost definately your compressor. I guess you on a PC, or else you wouldnt be using horrible horrible avi... so quicktime might be hard for you... for big files.. you can make qt with h264 compresor.. for DVD, make an mpeg4...

but.. are you sure it aint this fade... what software did u use to do that... sounds like a v buggy plugin, or bad edit...? true doing a crossfade FROM some black instead of a fade in plugin... maybe its all just a quirk... select all and move a few frames... or rendr that bit out and reimport... I know I know this all sounds like a lot of hassle... but video people go thru this everyday... its a minefield... btw.. are you black levels 0% or your whites 100%??? (only kidding.. but thats the sort of Q´s I GET from f***ig TV companies... ) I go... " what...?"

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Art Simon <simart@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kevin,

This is kind of a left field question, but pixelization can sometimes
be a product of the processing power of the player. Are your files
1080 HD by any chance? Is the pixelazation consistent on both the PC
and a standalone DVD player? I've seen this happen to me on 1080 on
_some_ playback devices with demanding content, but at 720 the
pixelation disappears.

I think you are right that a different encoder might produce different
results, but I'm not going to be much help there. I always use the
free DVD Flick PC software, which is adequate for my needs, but not
pro quality.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Kevin
Cheli-Colando<kevin@minds-eye.org> wrote:
> This one's way OT but I know some of you folks work with video
> professionally or semi so I thought I'd throw it out and see if anyone
> can help.
>
> I've got three files that I'm trying to author to DVD that all begin
> with a fade from black to the content.  In their currently rendered
> form they play back perfectly on my PC (as both uncompressed AVI or
> compressed m2v files).  However, when I author them to DVD, the intro
> gets obliterated into a burst of pixelization that resolves quickly
> enough and looks fine for the rest of the piece but is really
> distracting and annoying to me as it stands.  I've used Adobe Encore
> (CS4) and Nero to see if there is a difference between them and both
> do the same thing to the poor files.
>
> I'm really at a loss since this is happening even when the files are
> small enough already that they don't have to be compressed any farther
> to fit on the DVD as they are (and they look fine playing from the
> file and rough from the DVD).
>
> Anyone have any ideas of how I might be able to resolve this?
>
> Thanks in advance again,
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
> form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.
>
> - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)
>
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