Saving DV quality files

[Daminator]

Are there various different codecs for saving to DV quality?

I've just been trying to export an animation of mine from Premier using "Windows DV (PAL)" Codec (I think that was what it was called. I can't check at the moment because I'm rendering out to TGA's instead now).

The quality of that codec was lovely, but it had some weird glitches that looked like the image have been very slightly scaled. You know like when you get little box type patterns on the screen and when you get bits of single pixel ghosting on txt etc?

I thought it was my settings, but if I render to a different codec, or to TGA's, then the problem isn't there.

Are there different DV codecs to try out?

[sitlet]

DV is its own codec. a very low commpression, low loss codec. as for your encoding, where do you live? if you live in the USA, you should export to NTSC DV. PAL is used over seas and other wierd places like that

[guns1inger]

PAL is used over seas and other wierd places like that

Half the world uses the superior PAL system. Scary (and somewhat insulting) to think you consider anything outside the US to be a 'wierd place'

[Daminator]

How odd, I wonder why I'm having problems with the codec?

And yes, I am from one of those weird countries that you haven't bombed to 'de-weird' us yet.

Maybe I should wait until the UK is invaded, then in the aftermath I maybe able to use the NTSC version of the codec and all would be well?

[State Of Mind]

Now now, people. I don't bother with names, but the one who originally mentioned "weird places" needs to smarten up a bit and expand his horizons somewhat. As for the codec curiosity, I think you get those "glitches" because you have lost some of the quality. Low loss, but still a loss.

[sitlet]

jeez people, i forget to put a smiley at the end of my post and you think im insulting you? i was just joking, i know most of the world uses pal.

Maybe I should wait until the UK is invaded, then in the aftermath I maybe able to use the NTSC version of the codec and all would be well?

hah, good one. i wonder if they will make iraq ntsc of pal? :P


as for your codec issues, have to installed a lot of codecs? sometimes a lot of them on your machine will screw with each other.

[lechtin]

I have not tried different DV codecs myself but here is my understanding of them:

- When you capture from your DV camera, it is just a transfer and the codec does not matter (read this somewhere here)
- Where the DV codecs do make a difference is when you render after editing. I know Canopus have their own DV codec, and so does Mainconcept. There must be a difference between them, but I'm not sure what. Their websites may be a good place to get more info.
- For better quality, you may want to swithc to a codec that does not compress as much for your rendering, like huffyuv, or Mainconcept also offers a 50 Mbps DV codec (standard is 25 Mbps)

[Daminator]

huffyuv would be perfect for my needs, but I have had bad experiances with it in the past where it has put horrible streaky vertical lines though my video files.

[redwudz]

Here's a link to Doom9 that discusses different DV codecs: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=09b023dbf7786aa408a2b4afe0858a15&threadid=33526 I am assuming you are exporting a file and want to encode as DV. As stated previously, if you are importing from a DV device, that device uses it's own codec.