From: email suppressed
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 22:24:21 PST
The best way to make a high quality DVD from 16mm is to use the most robust
format at each stage of the process.
1) do your telecine to HD. If you can't go to HD go to Digibeta, but I for
one would not recommend transferring 16mm to beta sp, miniDV or DVCAM if you
are interested in a high quality final product. (I am defining high quality
as having the greatest fedility to the film you shot.)
2) Once the footage is on tape have a post house that does hardwear encoding
create your mpeg2 file for you. Although I use and like compressor, it will
not give the same results as a true professional encoding methodology.
3) If you must create the DVD yourself have your post house put your telecine
onto a firewire drive using a low or no compression codec such as those used
by a cinewave. This last step is important the bigger and better the file
you compress the better the DVD will look. If you bring your footage in to
your computer with DV compression and then compress it to Mpeg2, your results
will be so-so, not high quality.
4) use the best signal you can at each step, don't use anything other than
SDI.
peace
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