DVD Cap Parameters For Music Video Live Promo Performances

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"Fastfwd" <fastfwd01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm capping from Direct Tivo through an analog (S-Video) connection to
> AVI 720x480. I haven't been encoding to DVD because most people are
> burdened by SVCD size in the group that I'm capping these for.
> Anyway, what are the best parameters to set in Premiere Pro 1.5
> (Mainconcept encoder) for live performance DVD caps? I would have to
> imagine keeping the average performance around 150 megs would be ideal.
> I suppose you can make a 5 minute clip more than 300 megs maxed out,
> but my experimentation hasn't been showing a whole lot of gain even
> at 225 megs with my source material @:
>
> Video Summary:
> Codec: MainConcept MPEG Video
> Quality: 5.0 (high quality)
> TV Standard: NTSC
> Frame Rate [fps]: 29.97 drop frame
> Field Order: None (Progressive)
> Aspect Ratio: 4:3
> Frame Width [pixels]: 720
> Frame Height [pixels]: 480
> Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 2 Pass
> Minimum Bitrate [Mbps]: 1.5000 (low quality)
> Target Bitrate [Mbps]: 4.0000 (low quality)
> Maximum Bitrate [Mbps]: 7.0000 (high quality)
> M Frames: 3
> N Frames: 15
>
> Audio Summary:
> Audio Format: PCM
> Codec: PCM Audio
> Sample Size: 16 bit
> Frequency: 48 kHz
>
> Multiplexer Summary:
> Multiplexing: DVD
>
>
>
> That was the last shot I took at it. The progressive setting must be
> wrong... I'm getting interlace artifacts, though I thought my AVI
> capture would be progressive - giving me a progressive source as far
> as Premiere is concerned?
>
> Any suggestions for settings? Audio better with PCM or Mpeg? Thanks!
>

The S-Video output of your DirecTiVo DVR is (like mine) an
interlaced analog signal. So with an interlaced source you keep
the interlace during capture, and you keep it after that; unless you
have a progressive DVD Player AND a progressive display
device. Software and Hardware that can work with progressive
formats will accept non-progressive, interlaced inputs, except
some display devices. I would be surprised to hear that Premiere
Pro can't De-interlace its input along with other filtering.

I'm not quite sure what: " I haven't been encoding to DVD
because most people are burdened by SVCD size in the group
that I'm capping these for." , means? But I'm left with the
impression that they may not all have progressive displays. So
you might want to keep the interlace.

I find and 192kbps fine for most MP2 and AC3 audio, but
often use 256kbps for musically oriented material. You can
take stereo MP2 to 384kbps and AC3 to 448kbps. Your
Linear PCM is most likely 1536kbps, which is why it takes
up so much room.

Luck;
Ken

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I was referring to the download size of the videos when mentioning that
the group I was supplying video to was burdened by more than SVCD
quality. The DVD quality will probably double that size. I believe
most are on dial-up.

I suppose that I'm fishing for somebody to tell me if there is an
accepted standard going for these DVD quality music videos and promo
clips? I actually haven't burned a dvd for standalone player because
it is more convenient for me to just use my laptop to view videos
through my home receiver. It would be nice for these videos to be
compliant in that regard though if that might be the intention of the
users downloading the videos. I suppose that I can run them through
myself and see how they turn out. Again, I was looking for someone to
feed me the standard for encoding these. Specs wise, that is. I
suppose that I'll just keep the VBR 2 Pass and adjust the target
bandwidth until I feel that the gain in size isn't increasing the
quality. Thanks though for the sound input.