[MacDV] iDVD/iMovie 4 vs. FCE1/DVDSP2

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 2/1/04 3:02 PM, Zane H. Healy at healyzh at aracnet.com wrote:

> Has anyone done any comparisons between the quality of video done with iDVD4
> vs.  DVDSP2?  I've got some 4:3 material I'm wanting to do up some quick and
> dirty DVD's of, but I want the best quality video I can get.
> 
> My thought was to simply capture it with FCE1, and do a very quick edit, and
> spit it out to Compressor and A.Pack (to get DD 2.0) then do a quick DVD up in
> DVDSP2.  Obviously iDVD 4 would be faster, would it be anywhere near as good?
> 
> Zane

If you're using Compressor and A.Pack to do your media conversion to MPEG 2
and .aif or AC-3 respectively, then there should be no difference in video
or audio quality between the two (iDVD vs DVDSP2), as you're only using them
to create the interface.
-- 
Gregg