Best Quality Exporting From HDV to DVD

[DNA Imagery]

I've searched on the web & gotten a few answers, but nothing seems to solve the situation.

What I've tried.

1920x1080p MPEG2, Quality 5, Min, Target, Max All Set To 60.  Came out looking like crap when it was put on a dvd.  Noisy, over contrasted (could be the tv), over colored (could be the tv).

720x480 MPEG2-DVD, Quality 5, Min, Target, Max All Set To 9.  Came out looking worse then my previous attempt.

Anyone have a secret formula for HDV to DVD conversion?

[Ann Bens]

http://invertedhorn.axspace.com/hdv2dvd_basic.html

[the_wine_snob]

Ann,

Thanks for the link. All of my bookmarks were coming up dead - again! Maybe I need to create a site for the great posts from the Adobe fora?

Hunt

[the_wine_snob]

Welcome to the forum.

We've not seen much of Dan recently, and that is unfortunate, as he was a great contributor.

There is talk that a tutorial, based on his workflow, is in the works. You might want to keep an eye out for posts by Jeff Bellune. In the meantime, this TUTORIAL might be of use to you.

Good luck,

Hunt

[Dragonspear]

Anyone know if this all still applies after the CS6 release.  So far, I've been impressed with the new scaling.

I created graphics in both HD and SD, and then exported both in SD mp2.

Suprisingly, CS6 graphics scaled from HD to SD looked sharper than those created natively in SD!

...I'm curious how the new CS6 scaler results compare to Mr. Isaac's method.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Things actually improved significantly with CS5, making Dan's method largely unnecessary.  (Especially now if you have hardware acceleration.)

[Dan Isaacs]

Um, I don't know about CS6 ... but I find the scaling in CS5 to be not

as good as the scaling method in my workflow; at least for my taste.

More important, the deinterlacing quality is not nearly as good as that

in hd2sd(), so if you have a 1080i source, my workflow will generally

yield far superior results.

Furthermore, for noisy sources, hd2sd's noise reduction settings can

drastically improve the conversion quality and compressibility.

Again, I am only talking about CS5. I have not used cs6 so I have no idea.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Things haven't changed in CS6 on that front, so I will defer to your experience on that one.

I will alter my statement to say that the results from CS5 (and 6) have been of sufficient quality that I felt no need to even try hd2sd.

[Dragonspear]

Thanks Dan.  I agree with you about CS5 vs. hd2sd.  I'll post back here again once I've done a side by side camparison to CS6.  I was just hoping someone could save me the trouble.

[Dan Isaacs]

Yeah, honestly, if your source is clean and your footage and sequence

are 24p or 30p, it is kind of a wash: I prefer the sharper (Spline36)

scaling in hd2sd but others (like Jeff?) prefer the softer bicubic

scaling in Premiere.

However, for interlaced sources, there is no question in my mind that

hd2sd is the way to go.

[excited_Genie16B8]

My sources have all been interlaced, and still I saw nothing that made me want to experiment with hd2sd.

It might well be better, but I haven't seen the need of it yet, even with 1080i to 480i.

[Stan Jones]

Very nice seeing you post here, Dan.