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Can you burn a "progressive" DVD?
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Didn't know what to do.. Is it the DVD and TV that make it look better, or do I need to deinterlace etc before burning the DVD?
Mike
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Originally posted by MikeD:
Didn't know what to do.. Is it the DVD and TV that make it look better, or do I need to deinterlace etc before burning the DVD?
Mike
Sure you can. But you need progressive source video first.
Regular video cameras shoot 30fps interlaced video. You can de-interlace this video by throwing away one field per frame (reducing vertical resolution) with a de-interlacing filter, or Magic Bullet. Now you will have something that looks quite a bit different when viewed on a TV, but is progressive.
Now if you've done this, you still have 30fps source footage and can make a DVD using regular tools and programs, but each frame has no fields to display.
I should take a moment to note that if you've de-interlaced existing 30fps-interlaced footage like described above, you've actually THROWN AWAY picture information, and this act of making a progressive DVD has netted you video that is lower in resolution.
Usually you care about making progressive DVDs when you have progressive source footage, like from a 16mm or 35mm film camera, or an HD or SD camera that shoots 30P or 24P footage.
FCP4 can edit and render to MPEG2 24P footage via Compressor, and then these 24fps MPEG2 files can be used in DVDSP 1.5.2 or 2.0
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I see, looks like I need a progressive camera to get that source if I did video. But what if I were converting analog (ie from TV) to DVD. There's no way to make it "progressive" in terms of output from DVD to the TV right? Just "progressive" by making it a smaller res file (ie quicktime mpg) for viewing on my computer...
Mike
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Originally posted by MikeD:
I see, looks like I need a progressive camera to get that source if I did video. But what if I were converting analog (ie from TV) to DVD. There's no way to make it "progressive" in terms of output from DVD to the TV right?
If you don't have the picture data to begin with, you can't just pull it out of thin air.
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Originally posted by MikeD:
I see, looks like I need a progressive camera to get that source if I did video. But what if I were converting analog (ie from TV) to DVD. There's no way to make it "progressive" in terms of output from DVD to the TV right? Just "progressive" by making it a smaller res file (ie quicktime mpg) for viewing on my computer...
Mike
Yes you can make video from TV progressive. I was trying to say that above. But you'd be degrading the image in the process.
Progressive DVDs are for sources that were progressive to begin with.
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