jdmarlow:

It also just occurrred to me --- I'm working on a 23.976 timeline in Avid exporting same as source, so naturally Avid is exporting PROGRESSIVELY.  Is there a way around this?

There are two options that come to mind:

1. You can export to AE and have it insert the 2:3 pullin.
2. You can Digital Cut to tape and re-capture at 29.97
   

Hey! I finally did deliver my master DVD this evening...after significant trial and error, not to mention all the coasters! You guys have always been so helpful, I felt the need to share a little lesson I learned this time around...

In the past I used to happily use CCEB to cook my DVDs...but allas it's not happy with MacPro....

I tried 2 programs (DVDPro and Sorenson) which were readily at hand. I was getting the UGLIEST results...washed out...artifacts...very noisy dissolves ..the whole thing. With both.... was about to settle for the dirty dub onto the DVD recorder....but I called the house that's making our bulk DVDs. The teck there said what was happening was I was encoding twice! Once with QT ref and then again in the DVD program.....I couldn't believe that QT ref was anything but a pointer, but when I went out of MC via DV Stream...without any codec.....Eurika! I admit I also went a step further and changed my settings in DVDPro to progressive and RGB (very unconventional) but I had mixed media and the results were just incredible! The important thing I wanted to share was keep it clean....output at exactly the same specs that went into avid.........regardless of the format or the program used to make mpeg....hope this helps someone! Regards C. 

SAS, or a QT export selecting 'None' does it for me as an Avid export.  I thereby have a digital master of the material as well.  Good detective work, there!

 

I'm all good on the standard DVD via Studio Pro 4 (where I usually make my master) and then copies via Toast. I am a bit lost now though regarding Bu-Ray? I bought a new burner (d2Blu-Ray from lacie.) I have Toast 8. Compressor 3 & Sorenseon Squeeze 4.5... I am trying to get a90 minute feature film shot on HD and edited on Media Composer Adrenaline onto Dual layer Blu-Ray (and dual layer DVD, but think I'm okay on that front.) ... Do I HAVE to use the compressor in Toast? compressor 3 will MPEG2 encode for blue ray (but can't directly burn? alas, my Studio Pro 4, which historically I 've used to burn DVD's doesn't support Blu-ray so I don't know how to burn Blu-ray except toast?) How would you suggest gettting the best possible compression between Avid and Bu-ray from Avid Media composer Adrenaline? Thanks, RJ Filmmaker