How do I avoid compressing to DVD

[mcrump]

I sure hope someone can help me with this because I've exhausted all of my resources.

The setup: I shoot underwater video with a Sony TRV-9 digital video camera in an underwater housing. I clip from about 20 hours of footage and build a one hour movie in Adobe Premiere Pro. When I burn the DVD, no matter what settings I use, Premiere still compresses the file. I SHOULD be able to put a one hour movie on a DVD with no compression. My goal is to have the DVD look as good as when I plug my camera straight into the TV. I have tried Adobe Encore with the same results.

Since everything is digital I should get the same image quality as what's on the DV tape. Or is this an incorrect assumption.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Michael

[UncasMS]

a DV codec should be at around 200mb/min

this will be 200 x 60 => 12.000mb and thus wont fit on your dvd

and moreover the DV format itself must be converted to mpeg-2/dvd compliant format

[mcrump]

Are you saying that it's impossible to create a DVD as good as what I lay down on MiniDV tape?

[Floppy]

If he's not saying it I will...

Yes it's very unlikly to fit DV quality footage equaling one hour on a mini DV tape to a DVD without compressing it further or a lot....

DV records at 3.6mb a second and DVD (mpeg2) at 1mb per second...

[mcrump]

So.....what does it take to get DVD reaolution and clarity from my tapes. Am I using the correct software (Premiere Pro) or should I be using something like Canopus Procoder?

[Floppy]

I never used either of but I was able to achieve excelent quality using Ulead VideoStudio 8...

However I would be willing to bet Adobe's soft will perform just as well...

It's all about the right settings.

Heck if you have Nero try a straight video conversion from the captured tapes to Nero Digital even if just for a ten minute sample to see what mpeg4 can achieve...

U can use Nerovision express and try mpeg2 at a higher bitrate see what you can do by experimenting with software you already have....

Talking about already having try WMM2 and check the results out.

[anonymez]

i've encoded many dv tapes (which are at dvd res) to dvd with tmpgenc without a hitch, and could barely tell the difference in quality. takes a very long time though...

[UncasMS]

with a decent encoder it should be possible to create good mpeg-2 material

but so far i havent come across decent mpeg-2 output quality from editing tools like premiere, ulead, womble or pinnacle

[anonymez]

havent come across decent mpeg-2 output quality from editing tools like premiere, ulead, womble or pinnacle

me neither, that's why i stick to tmpgenc and very rarely use any of them

[Floppy]

I hate to be the one rocking the boat but Ulead Videostudio 8 results are of excelent quality for me...

Addmitedly I prefer to use linear editing instead and keep all the quality but I only get to do that when the studio is not being used...

Go here and have a peek at some ideas and maybe a little more...

http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp056.htm

with the introduction of newer capacity DVD's soon the linear technology has great chance of becoming a standard and going on a diferent medium thus satisfying the more quality avid users amongst us...