Comments on: How to Encode Media Composer Sequence for DVD

By: CM

CM — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Thanks for these settings – worked well. What do you recommend if the source footage was shot in the Panasonic 720/24pn format and edited on a 23.976p timeline?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:36:21 +0000

Yeah, initially I didn’t deinterlace. But I did a test and discovered that the deinterlaced standard def DVD looked much better on my plasma set (50-inch, 720p) and looked just as good on my older CRT TV. I don’t really understand why that is and was surprised. I expected that it would look low-res on the CRT. I should mention that I have not tried this procedure since upgrading to MC 3.1.2 with the current version of Avid DVD by Sonic and Squeeze 5. I will probably try it later today.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:23:36 +0000

Just curious, why you deinterlace? Sorenson says not to since the file is progressive anyway.