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ehickert · 30th September 2002, 07:46

I am in the process of converting a series of DV tapes (made with NTSC Sony TRV900 camcorder), and some analog Hi8 tapes to DVD-Video. The objective is to achieve the highest quality possible.

I plan to use the Sony camcorder's internal HW codec to digitize the Hi8 tapes to DV. (This has been suggested elsewhere in this forum, if you know of a better way, please let me know).

Once all the media is in the DV format, it will be edited in Adobe Premier on a Matrox RT2000 system and exported in the same native DV format.

I read, in this forum, that it will improve the compression process of DV to MPEG2 if you de-interlace and also do some noise filtering (or smoothing) of DV sources.

Avisynth seems to offer all these options. I have considered using plugins like: TomsMoComp(0,15,1) or Decomb FieldDeinterlace(blend=false). I am not sure which is best or which other noise filters should be used.

After coding the video to MPEG using a Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.50 (depending on the Avisynth process, I suppose that the recommended settings for the CCE Codec might change, please let me know what you suggest here if you have any experience with this codec), the audio will also be processed in Sound Forge (to clean it up) and converted to AC3 (stereo) with BeSweet. The final stage would be to author the DVD with Maestro.

I have used Avisynth in a limited way (mostly following Doom9's how to guides for DVD backup. Any suggestions or comments on this whole process would be greatly appreciated.

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ehickert Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 21	Help w/ DV to DVD workflow I am in the process of converting a series of DV tapes (made with NTSC Sony TRV900 camcorder), and some analog Hi8 tapes to DVD-Video. The objective is to achieve the highest quality possible. I plan to use the Sony camcorder's internal HW codec to digitize the Hi8 tapes to DV. (This has been suggested elsewhere in this forum, if you know of a better way, please let me know). Once all the media is in the DV format, it will be edited in Adobe Premier on a Matrox RT2000 system and exported in the same native DV format. I read, in this forum, that it will improve the compression process of DV to MPEG2 if you de-interlace and also do some noise filtering (or smoothing) of DV sources. Avisynth seems to offer all these options. I have considered using plugins like: TomsMoComp(0,15,1) or Decomb FieldDeinterlace(blend=false). I am not sure which is best or which other noise filters should be used. After coding the video to MPEG using a Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.50 (depending on the Avisynth process, I suppose that the recommended settings for the CCE Codec might change, please let me know what you suggest here if you have any experience with this codec), the audio will also be processed in Sound Forge (to clean it up) and converted to AC3 (stereo) with BeSweet. The final stage would be to author the DVD with Maestro. I have used Avisynth in a limited way (mostly following Doom9's how to guides for DVD backup. Any suggestions or comments on this whole process would be greatly appreciated.