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Hi all! I've been using FCE and iDVD 6 to create DVDs made from SD video shot by me on miniDV cameras and I've been pretty annoyed with the process and somehat disappointed with the results. I used to use DVDSP 1.5 and loved it. I used it in conjunction with an early version of FCE back on my old eMac and the DVDs I made looked great. When I picked up my G5 iMac and upgraded to FCE 3.5 I lost the ability to export to mpeg2 and ever since then I've had tons of problems getting a decent image onto DVD. I've been using iDVD to create DVDs using my exported QT files and I've had pixelating, interlacing artifacts, freezing, you name it. I finally got a decent DVD that plays OK but the quality isn't quite what it was with my old setup. The image quality looks a little softer to me, and the edges of objects aren't as sharp as I feel like they were back when I was using FCE 1 and DVDSP 1.5.
Because of all this, I'm seriously considering biting the bullet and picking up the FCP suite. I'm wondering though, has anybody else noticed this? Has anybody noticed any difference in quality of DVDs created in DVDSP and iDVD? Or what about iDVD 8 v/s iDVD 6? Are there improvements between the versions (specifically in the mpeg2 encoder) that could make my final DVDs look better? Is it worthwhile for me to consider the move to DVDSP? Any advice or recommendations?
Thanks is advance for the assistance and for taking the time to read this.

I'm not certain you'll see the kind of improvement you want. But you will see minor improvements when using 2 pass VBR settings or professional settings, yes.
It also takes twice as long to encode under the pro settings. If you do a significant amount of camera panning (which I personally try and avoid with the use of a quality tripod) and/or you happen to video fast moving objects; then the improvements will be even more noticeable.

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