DVD made on a Mac, won't play correctly on a Mac, will play on a DVD player
Can some bright person please explain this?
I have an NTSC project, 90 mins in length. I made an m2v file in Compressor (at several different presets, all with the same result), from which I authored a DVD in DVDSP.
The resulting DVD plays fine in a DVD player onto a TV, but stutters slightly, and unpredictably, when played on any of my three Macs, (and on a PC as well!). The stuttering will not necessarily be in the same place in the timeline every time. The stuttering shows up on horizontal pans (there is a lot of rostrum artwork in this project, so lots of smooth pans across drawings). Now, when I look at the m2v file directly in MPEGStreamclip, I see the stuttering as well. Also, when I look directly at the footage in the FCP timeline, sure enough, there is occasional stuttering there too, but here's the thing - when I look at the direct output from the timeline simultaneously on a TV monitor, there is no stuttering.
I tried putting compression markers every 10 frames in the worst affected areas, but it made no difference. Examining the m2v file closely, I can see all the frames are as they should be - there is no evidence of the image being out of place, so it's a playback issue, not a compression issue. It seems the computer dispaly cannot keep up with the playback, even though the computer itself can (hence the correct display on a TV).
I regularly play commercial DVDs in these Macs, with no problem whatsoever. I am now trying to produce a commercial DVD which will play equally well in a computer as in a DVD player. Where am I going wrong?
(I regularly make DVDs from material sourced either in the PAL format or an HD format, following the same workflow, and have not experienced this problem before. I don't know whether that is of any significance.)
Tech details: FCP v6.0.5 (FCS)
MacPro 2.8GHz 8-core
MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz
Mac OSX 10.5.8
Well, I tried that on a section, and I'm afraid it may have been worse than I had originally. These are the settings in Compressor that I tried. Am I still getting something wrong?
File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 2.2 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16:9)
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Better) Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Best (Motion Compensated)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Progressive
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Progressive
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.5 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
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