[MacDV] Re: iMovie, FCE, FCP quality

[Mark M. Florida]

On Jan 10, 2004, at 12:17 PM, sb wrote:

> DVD SP2 uses Compressor, which is better than the encoder on the 
> current
> iDVD, you open up Compressor to set the bit rate.

I guess I was basing my statement on the "old technology" of the MPEG 
encoder used with DVDSP 1.x -- I have yet to have the pleasure of using 
DVDSP 2 and Compressor.  :-\

> The new iDVD4 is supposed to have "pro encoding" which should mean 2
> pass/vbr, which would make it equal in quality to what you get with 
> DVDSP
> 2/Compressor.

Let's hope so, but let's also hope that encoding times are still 
reasonable.  :-)

- Mark