No, I haven't used the JW flash player.
In Dreamweaver, when you "Insert> Media> Flash Video" onto a webpage you are designing, a dialog box will come up for dealing with all the various parameters, including the flash player issues, player instructions, skin selection, and even a notification message & download link to upgrade Flash if needed. So, if the computer viewing the page has no Flash player, or an obsolete version, the page will steer them to an update on the Adobe site.
Very quick & easy- if fact, so quick and easy that I actually haven't needed to know a lot about it.
I like that a lot!

I'm going to add this tidbit to DVD creation as I think it to be important and I'm
glad Andrew came up with this tutorial....

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DVDs: PAL and NTSC
 

Hello,

Great discussion here.

I am using PPCS3 with Prospect HD. My project is 1920 x 1080 - 30p and I want to make a DVD too.

Sounds like using TMPGEnc is the best way to get a mpeg file which then should be burned to a DVD using a DVD authoring program.

Do I need to create the CF master file or can I just use debug frameserver and send it to TMPGEnc?

Also I need to create NTSC and PAL DVD versions from my project. Anything special I should do for PAL versions compared to NTSC?

Lastly, I do not have PAL equipment but need to send the PAL DVD versions to Europe. Any way I can test out the PAL version before I send it? Is there a special PAL DVD player program for example so I can make sure it looks good too?

Thanks again for all the great information.

Simon

Hey all,


Good stuff. I am curious..with TMPeng installed, can't you select that from Media Encoder when creating the mpeg-2 files? I haven't tried in CS4, but I would have thought it would be another codec in the list to use regardless of the app.

My experience with Encore is like others.. use PP or the Media Encoder to spit out the .mkv or mpeg2 files first..then allow Encore to simply burn them. I have had numerous crashes with Encore during transcode stage that I gave up.

I am sure some of you might have said this..I read most of the posts but it's late.. so jumped to the end here.. but the nanoFlash for $3K (just about to be available end of this month if I recall) will allow you to record from the HD-SDI or HDMI outputs of any camera and it uses a Sony licensed codec to compress the video and up to 8 channels of audio onto 32GB flash cards. While not cheap, it certainly gives new options to those looking to buy cameras that can't afford 5K+ cameras. My thought is the new Canon S100 camera. It has a large 8.59MP Cmos with 1/2.6" sensor, 1080P native record capability. A few shots I've seen with the XDR Flash and the Canon are stunning to say the least. The quality from those rivals the quality from $5K+ cameras. You naturally lose some of the other features of pro caliber cameras..the manual capabilites and lenses.. but for shooting stock footage, green screen, even weddings and events, I believe from what I have seen the canon S100 with the nanoFlash would be up to the task just as much as any of the big cameras can if you can get by without some of the other features like lenses and such. I am seriously looking in to this to get me by until I can afford the RED Scarlet setup if/when that arrives.

Hi Kevin, Good to hear from you Simon....

NO what you need to do is output you project in the Highest quality CF master file. Then you take that into TMPeng to create your Blu-ray or SD DVD. Then thake that file and use Encore or what ever authoring DVD tool you use to build you DVD. Encore will not transcode you video because is alreay in the correct format, it will just pack it for your dvd/bd.

Note sometimes Encore gives you a hard time improting it into your time line but just keep trying it and after 2 or 2 time it takes. Also something else I found. Encore CS4 does not like if you output Video and audio combined from TMPeng so use the setting in TMPeng to split the audio and video works great.

what would you suggest
 

I know this disscussion is primarily hd to sd but....
I have some sd footage (dance recital) that after editing in premiere cs3 looks fine with cineform.avi export. sd 16:9. Its about 1h50 min.
I need to get trouble free dvds for the paying parents.
It seems I can only get it to fit on a 4.7gb dvd if compressed at ~5.3mb/sec. . on the pc the quality hits bad (tmpgenc 4 express) If I want to go 8.5-9 then I'll have to go dl....Is that a common situation you find. What is a good compatible dvd-r dl if that's the solution?

Jack

Hi Jack,

I always use 2 4.7 DVDs form my weddings.. You could use DL for the best quality but there is nothing wrong with 2 Discs either. But in order to get the best quality the lease compression is what you need to do.

Oh I alway use Verbtium I have never had a client say they could not plau a disc

Jack
I would definitely go DL.
You went to the trouble to make the best images you could, don't cream them at the last step with too much compression. With DL you can stay at VBR 6-7mbs & get 2 hrs. of great quality.
I also always feel better about handing out a long program on a single disk intead of multiples as well- just my personal quirk.

Thanks guys.

Specifically which Verbatim disk are you talking about (for dl) I usually buy taiyo yuden for my single from supermediastore.com. (I would rather give them one disk as well.)

Btw, care to comment on my workflow?...dv avi to premiere pro multiedit (dv ntsc project 48khz) export cineform avi. (without recompress)--> tmpgenc 4.4 compress to mpg.-->dvd architect. I've been doing several small scene jpg captures to compare. The export cineform is acceptably close to the original avi (and looked better then uncompress avi export) BUT then it becomes a lesser of 10 evils trying to pick the best mpg encoded jpg. Trying 8mbs with hi motion search and 10bit dc seems to give a noticably better result when looking at them blown up 300% . Do you find most of the time sharpening helps going from avi to dvd on tv. seems unintuitive because during editing it might appear like over sharpening and then be good on tv. At least that's what it seemed like the little I played with hd--sd dvd. if so , suggest sharpening in premiere or during compression in tmpgenc?

Anyway currently chipping away at mutiediting close and wide shots from two cams. I just hired someone to shoot and give me the avi's. (since I was in the show). This is just a hobby for me but now I got people paying for the dvd and I want them (and my wife, who owns the dance studio) happy. ;)

Highest quality CF master file?
 

I am in PPCS3 with my Prospect HD project at 1920 x 1080 at 30p.

How do I create the CF Master file?

Do you mean do an export->Movies->Cinefor Export AVI???

Thanks,

Simon

Exactly- EXPORT> MOVIE> in the settings use the Cineform compressor, 1080x1920, 30p and render the timeline out to a CFHD.avi movie.
This is now your master HD file.

Cool.

Thanks,

Simon

Just remember not to select the "recompress", and check your settings for the CF codec.

The "High HD" setting is plenty good enough for CF'ed HDVs.

Thanks!

I decided to just use Debugmode Frameserver which saves me the step of creating the CF Master file.

Simon

Steve,

I was looking at this tutorial BDVS Tutorials
by Jeff Bellune and I can't tell how the down scaling is done with frame server. Is it done by the Adobe Encoder or the Cineform compressor.

Somehow I had the idea the Cineform downscaling was more accurate than the Encoder Adobe uses, either Premiere or Encore.

Also, how would you generate web video from your "master" using the frameserver technique?

Thanks for your help.

John Rich

Hi John, the only thing with using framesaver is Encoe does the transcoding and Encores trancoding really stinks.tmpgenc compression is the best I have been able to find once you import the tmpgenc file to Encoe it wil not transcode the file just the dvd menue and wrap it for Dvd play back.