That's great Fairmorn....very promt responce from the engineers !!!

could they let us know what sort of "evil eye gem" they have used or is it a house-secret ?

Cheers,

Prisca.

And, prisca, this was usefull for You or not?

Tell me please... And others too - "enjoy the silence"?

I would never have believed it Fairmorn (and others...)

I want to make some dvd's using the new cinemacraft encoder (Normally i use dvdit pro)

Any tips ?

Cinemacraft makes outstanding MPEG2 encodes. The best I've ever seen from a software encoder. It is worth it to read through the user guide's advanced options for their suggestions on settings. (Like using Zig-Zag mode for progressive source material, and when to enable upper field encoding.)

Other than that the encoder is very straightforward and even the default settings will get you solid results.

I use DVDit PRO too and I like this program - only one little minus I found in it - output picture little brighter than original. But in creation of menu and navigation buttons (includind animated buttons!) it very comfortable thing.

About Cinema Craft encoder - need to see... May be it better than DVDit. Need to try

CC encodes to mpg2 .

What do you use to create a DVD ?

On the other hand you use a Mac and I'm a PC.

Any ideas ?

Cheers,

Prisca

BTW think of that....

Imagine, some moderator complains that we are off-topic !!!!

That would be great.

Let's give some life to this dead green-corner !

P.

This topic may be one of oldest in Internet history - moderators must to forgive us :)

Prisca, You said that You normally using DVDit PRO. As I'am too... But DVDit PRO was exactly made for creation of DVD final disk (or image or volume). And this program have its own good transcoder.

By other words - You just importing your video from your Avid (reference quicktime are best for import - program sees them with sound at ones), cut on chapters, create menues (may be animated menues), choose transcoding bitrate (for DVD5 or DVD9 - in DVDit PRO HD You can to burn even Blu-Ray) and choose "Burn" in menu - that's all !!!

I didn't understand - for what you need Cinema Craft after DVDit PRO?

You are right Fairmorn, DVTitPro does it all and well !

On the other hand cinemacraft as encoder has 4x the price of DVDitPro, it.s just my curiosity.

to see what goes on.

If you encode with cc and import to DVDit the mpeg will be reencoded so you lose time and quality...

I have to test it !!

Prisca

May be pretranscoding in cinemacraft will give better result even after DVDit PRO final transcoding, but in referenses cc loses audio file - not a big problem - always can to import it manually to DVDit - global question in final quality (I did not tested it yet)

May be a hidden reason in this...

hi everyone!

i am not quite sure if i have solved the problem, but in my case it defenitely helped to

add a luminance-limiter (color-correction cut <16 and >235). the green line went away.

so i think its definetive a codec and luminance problem.

can anyone with the green-line-pal-p-problem check this out?

thin green line is'nt that a movie title?

superwinter:

hi everyone!

i am not quite sure if i have solved the problem, but in my case it defenitely helped to

add a luminance-limiter (color-correction cut <16 and >235). the green line went away.

so i think its definetive a codec and luminance problem.

can anyone with the green-line-pal-p-problem check this out?

this is not a codec or luminance problem (as I think)

in my case as was wrote above, green line appears only in 25p PAL project and not after import but only after using AVX filter or effect (AVX2 have not this artefact at all)

Mark very helped in solving of this problem. Method was simple - to change rendering setting (only rendering) to 14:1 (in Avid Xpress) with de-selected "Same as Source"

as I said, green line presents ONLY in 25p PAL mode.

Greetings to All!!!!

Several weeks ago I tested Avid Media Composer 2.8

What can I say? As compare with Avid Xpress - it's more powerful thing. More modes (for axample 1:1 and 1:1 10b) in 25p PAL project. And most interesting is when I tried to capture video stream from my camera directly in Composer in DV 25p 420 mode, damned green line appeared at once!

But then I switched to 1:1 mode - all clear!!! More of it - in rendering all effects seens clear (without green line) too! Even without deselecting "Same as Source". Maybe in 1:1 or 1:1 10b modes video consuming more disk space, but higher quality need this sacrifice as I think...

Only some questions to Mark:

In mode list presents two unknown for me modes - VC1-APL0 and VC1-APL1 - what is this? What more prefer for quality between those modes and 1:1 / 1:1 10b ?