MPEG Streamclip options for iMovie use and for iDVD use
Hi.
This is my first posting so I apologise for all procedural inadequacies.
I am doing a montage of clips from different DVDs, using the DVDs as source material. For this I first run the DVDs through MPEG Streamclip, pick the relevant clips, then export the .VOB files as Quicktime files, then import them into iMovie HD, editing them together in it. I then save the montage as an iMovie HD project, import it into iDVD in order to burn a separate DVD which can be played on regular DVD players and on TV sets.
Everything looks fine until I see the final product on the TV screen. The picture quality is poor and it seems that the frame rate is odd. The sound is muffled, too. What am I doing wrong? I am not sure if I am choosing the right options in the MPEG Streamclip – Movie Exporter window (Compression, Quality, Frame Size, Frame Blending, Field Dominance, Interlaced Scaling, Reinterlace Chroma, Deinterlace Video etc.) I’m not even sure how relevant this is for this problem. I even tried exporting DVD .VOB files as MPEG4 files and as DV files instead of as Quicktime files, hoping the picture and overall quality would be better. It works in iMovie HD but when I try to import the edited montage into iDVD it won’t recognize it.
I’m stuck. Does anyone know what the optimal set of options is for what I’m trying to do? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
P.S. How do I alter the DV-NTSC setting which iMovie HD seems to have as default on the top of its window as soon as it starts up? I am in the UK and need to know that all is always set to PAL.
export the .VOB files as Quicktime files
"QuickTime" is rather vague, because it includes A LOT of very different codecs and qualities!
You want to output PAL/NTSC DV_streams if you want to import it to iMovie/iDVD! If the source is PAL, output PAL and vice versa (converting decent quality PAL<->NTSC is another can of worms).
But: if you want to preserve quality, you really should edit MPEG and re-author it as a DVD, and forget iMovie/iDVD because they want DV, and converting DVD->DV->DVD will lose quality!
See also:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#PALNTSC
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