Newbie Question converting DV to DVD

[onyx666]

Hi

i just captured the first movie to my Pc and encoded it with Premiere to Mpeg2, but the playback is choppy sometimes and i also see some very small lines when there is some movement.

What is the best software to convert DV file to Dvd format ?
I suppose i can edit in Premiere and then save it back as a DV file but how do i get that to Mpeg

michel

[JiB]

try to use TMPGEnc.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/e_main.html

[onyx666]

is tmpgenc better then cce for this ? i use for dvd ripping cce but if i want to open a dv file with cce it gives a error (unsupported format)

[Arky]

This sounds like a faulty field-order issue to me. CCE is notorious for screwing up field order with DV source footage. DV firewire captures are generally lower-field-first, but CCE always attempts to encode them upper-field-first. Hence, choppy playback, which often goes unnoticed on PCs (which playback in Progressive mode), but is very noticeable when you burn a disk to DVD-R and playback in a standalone. TMPGEnc and ProCoder do not suffer these field-order issues.

I expect Custom Technology to address this issue in future releases of CCE, because they must be well aware that they are getting slagged-off something chronic for not having dealt with such a basic and fundamental issue on an encoder which they are charging $2,000 for.


Arky ;o)

[jtor]

i use for dvd ripping cce but if i want to open a dv file with cce it gives a error (unsupported format)

This sounds like a faulty field-order issue to me.

...I don't think field order in CCE (2.50 I assume) has anything to do with the problem (cannot open the dv file, unsupported format).

I would guess it's in the DV Codec used. You might want to try getting the Canopus DV Playback-only codec, and also the Canopus DV Converter (so you can convert your DV AVI to another DV-AVI, but using the Canopus codec), and try CCE again.

All my DV AVI files use the Canopus DV Codec, and I'm not getting those loading problems on CCE.

DV is supposedly lower field first. But when using CCE, (in my case), I found that checking the upper field first tickbox worked, no 'jittery' motion scenes.

is tmpgenc better then cce for this ?

Both will give you pretty much good quality MPEG2s. However, TMPGENC takes a lot more time to encode than CCE.

Hope this helps.