Adi Head
January 12th, 2010, 04:22 AM
I recently finished directing a 40 minute documentary in Poland, shot in HD. Edited on Final Cut Pro. Post production was all done overseas in Poland. I had to leave Poland before the final mix of sound, but that is being done now.
In a week from now I need to send out a short trailer of the film which i plan to edit myself on Vegas 9. This means I need for the production company in Poland to send me a high quality video file of the finished film as soon as possible. The trailer will probably be viewed on a computer screen (small chance it will be viewed on a tv).
I asked the editor in Poland to render a high quality file of the film for me, so I can import it into Vegas and edit the trailer. He replied that he can render really good quality file which would be around 3GB. But he recommends making a high quality DVD of the film and extracting the video from the DVD.
The following is his exact instructions:
- when you will get a dvd, get from internet program Mpeg StreamClip or Super. They will allow you to transcode this dvd to mov.
- use PhotoJPG codec to make mov file or DV-PAL codec (just check what have better quality on your computer)
- edit this transcode material. use only codec that you have chosen for transcoding
this way, you will get a picture without so called "artifact", which are more visible on TV screen. Also, you can transcode picture choosing "Interlace" option so it will be even better in TV screen (but not in computer screen, so you have to ask on what device they want to show a movie).
As far as I know - DVD quality is a compressed mpeg and is considered not so great. But then again - when viewing DVDs on my computer or tv they look just fine... so maybe it's the best way to go after all.
Another aspect to all of this is that the file can't be too large. it must be able to fit on a DVD-ROM which will be sent to me. I just wanted to get opinions on this and be sure that extracting the file from an authored DVD is the best option.
Thanks!
In a week from now I need to send out a short trailer of the film which i plan to edit myself on Vegas 9. This means I need for the production company in Poland to send me a high quality video file of the finished film as soon as possible. The trailer will probably be viewed on a computer screen (small chance it will be viewed on a tv).
I asked the editor in Poland to render a high quality file of the film for me, so I can import it into Vegas and edit the trailer. He replied that he can render really good quality file which would be around 3GB. But he recommends making a high quality DVD of the film and extracting the video from the DVD.
The following is his exact instructions:
- when you will get a dvd, get from internet program Mpeg StreamClip or Super. They will allow you to transcode this dvd to mov.
- use PhotoJPG codec to make mov file or DV-PAL codec (just check what have better quality on your computer)
- edit this transcode material. use only codec that you have chosen for transcoding
this way, you will get a picture without so called "artifact", which are more visible on TV screen. Also, you can transcode picture choosing "Interlace" option so it will be even better in TV screen (but not in computer screen, so you have to ask on what device they want to show a movie).
As far as I know - DVD quality is a compressed mpeg and is considered not so great. But then again - when viewing DVDs on my computer or tv they look just fine... so maybe it's the best way to go after all.
Another aspect to all of this is that the file can't be too large. it must be able to fit on a DVD-ROM which will be sent to me. I just wanted to get opinions on this and be sure that extracting the file from an authored DVD is the best option.
Thanks!