Help with my fades to black please

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2 total messages Started by script_2_screen_productions Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19

#155

Author: script_2_screen_productions
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19

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Fading to black is resulting in poor quality with horizontal bands through it on the final DVD. The rest is fine. This happens with various authoring programs, so it must be a Premier problem. I have tried using a black JPEG (as opposed to fading to transparency) but still the same result. I am rendering to avi files which go into the authoring program. Funny thing, though, when I make a disc direct from premier it is fine. Trouble is, usually I want menus so I cant do this often, it was just that the one I am referring to was just a three minute job so no menu needed. I looked at Adobe help and it said that you could export to DVD and use the data for other authoring programs. Maybe this would be the answer, but I cant find a 'save to hard drive' option under export to DVD. Authoring programs tend to have this, so is it possible to do this from premier? Is avi the best way to render for DVD production? I do need the descent quality here. I have tried messing about with the interlacing stuff but not helping. Any ideas welcome. I am noit that technical so pleae dont tell me off for not giving enough info. Just ask specific if you need to know more. Thanks so much

Re: Help with my fades to black please

#156

Author: olf
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:00

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Hi,
you are in the Mac forum here.
But the cause for this is probably the same on Mac and PC.

Do not export to DVD directly from Premiere. Export a movie first and check if it has the same banding.

If your movie has the same banding then the DVD won't be better.
You can use a better AVI- or Quicktime-codec if this is the case.

Anyway, banding is a very common problem on DVDs. It is hard to handle that.
You could try a different MPEG encoder. Good encoders are TMPEGEnc for PC (cheap) or Bitvice for Mac. Other programs for Mac and PC are Mainconcept and Autodesk Cleaner, both with demo versions available.

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