I have been totally unsuccessful at making a compliant MPEG-2 file from any of our encoders. It would save a lot of time (and video quality) if I didn't have to transcode everything twice.
The source video is 720p/30 video that was imported into Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 for editing and exported from there as an animation compressed quicktime to work with the PC based encoders and as a timeline native quicktime movie for Compressor (the video was edited in 720p/30). We are then upscaling the video to a 1080i/29.97 within the encoder.
I looked at the sticky thread for making compliant files and found the Compressor settings and the Vegas output information located there and since we have both of those programs, I gave it a shot. This is what I have my encodes set to:
Compressor
File Extension: m2v
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 1920
Height: 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: square
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls:
Retiming: Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Line Averaging
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Top first
Average data rate: 21.1 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 25 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
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Vegas 7 (Mainconcept MPEG-2 Encoder)
1080i BluPrint Compliant (Upper Field First)
Have produced both open and closed GOP sample files
CBR 25Mbps
Saved as elementary streams
ALL OTHER SETTINGS ARE PRESETS
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Neither of these video files will import into DVDit Pro HD as a compliant MPEG-2 file. We have tried several variants of these settings as well with no luck.
Can someone tell me what might be going wrong here? Encoding setting changes? Is there a setting within DVDit Pro HD that needs to be changed other than switching it to a BD-25 disc? We have also messed with the transcoding settings in DVDit Pro a few times to see if that affected import at all.
The ultimate goal is to find some setting that will work for our StreamZ encoding system, which is a lot faster than any of the other encoding machines or the authoring system and has hardware to assist.
Any help in this matter is much appreciated. Thanks!
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Tarkin
Hello everyone.
I have been totally unsuccessful at making a compliant MPEG-2 file from any of our encoders. It would save a lot of time (and video quality) if I didn't have to transcode everything twice.
The source video is 720p/30 video that was imported into Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 for editing and exported from there as an animation compressed quicktime to work with the PC based encoders and as a timeline native quicktime movie for Compressor (the video was edited in 720p/30). We are then upscaling the video to a 1080i/29.97 within the encoder.
I looked at the sticky thread for making compliant files and found the Compressor settings and the Vegas output information located there and since we have both of those programs, I gave it a shot. This is what I have my encodes set to:
Compressor
File Extension: m2v
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 1920
Height: 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: square
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls:
Retiming: Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Line Averaging
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Top first
Average data rate: 21.1 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 25 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
--------------------
Vegas 7 (Mainconcept MPEG-2 Encoder)
1080i BluPrint Compliant (Upper Field First)
Have produced both open and closed GOP sample files
CBR 25Mbps
Saved as elementary streams
ALL OTHER SETTINGS ARE PRESETS
--------------------------
Neither of these video files will import into DVDit Pro HD as a compliant MPEG-2 file. We have tried several variants of these settings as well with no luck.
Can someone tell me what might be going wrong here? Encoding setting changes? Is there a setting within DVDit Pro HD that needs to be changed other than switching it to a BD-25 disc? We have also messed with the transcoding settings in DVDit Pro a few times to see if that affected import at all.
The ultimate goal is to find some setting that will work for our StreamZ encoding system, which is a lot faster than any of the other encoding machines or the authoring system and has hardware to assist.
Any help in this matter is much appreciated. Thanks!
-Phil
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