DVD Movie production in Widescreen

[sb]

How much total video are you trying to compress?
Try using BitVice (2 pass VBR)

Or, Sorenson Squeeze.

sb

On 1/31/03 1:16 AM, "Tony Sheppard" <grumbledook at mac.com> wrote:

> It has been one of those weeks ..... our WebMaster (and alround dogs' body
> when it comes to any digital productions) has been given the fantastic job
> of producing promotional material for a Panasonic PT-50PHD4-P (1366x768
> pixels).
> 
> The first lot of material has been produced in Keynote (and Keynote is very
> good as far as we are concerned ... and hasn't crashed either :-)! ) and
> exported to Quicktime using the Motion JpegA codec and is good quality. The
> resolution is 1366x768, at 25fps
> 
> After trying with iMovie and iDVD and realising that the quality is not
> going to be good enough, mainly due to the stretching of the movie to fit
> 4:3 used by iMovie / iDVD. So we have tried FCPro (in a custom sequence of
> 1366x768 to allow for the full quality of the movie) and DVDSP, but finding
> that on outputing to MPEG-2 (which it outputs it at 720x480) the quality is
> not good enough quality for management.
> 
> My main questions are ....
> 1. Looking to do this sort of production are we using the right tools?
> 2. How can we output to MPEG-2 at the needed resolution? Third party codec?
> If so what would people recommend?
> 3. Are there any good tutorials for producing Widescreen DVDs?
> 4. We are utterly confused as to what size as to do the stills (using
> Photoshop) and for sequences in general for FCPro?
> 
> We are a UK based school but the DVD player does PAL and NTSC, but
> information for PAL would be best.
> 
> Tony Sheppard