SpeedEDIT saved my arse...

[Liber777]

...on one project so far.

I created a text animation in Fusion for an experimental music show, which I edited on my VT[4] and then encoded this to DVD using TMPGEnc Xpress, which I've been doing for years with video. The results were terrible; the text was blurry and doubled on some lines. I thought it might be a fielding issue but it wasn't and I tried several different settings with the same bad results.

I finally installed SE on my VT workstation, loaded the project up and used the built-in MPEG encoder. This time the text was perfect when played from DVD.

Stivan

[bobgilles]

Did you use SE just to render the project out to Mpeg2? What setting did you select?

[Liber777]

Yes, I believe the setting was "NTSC DVD 4x3 480i CBR 7Mbps" and the audio was almost certainly AC-3.

[ScorpioProd]

Yes, I believe the setting was "NTSC DVD 4x3 480i CBR 7Mbps" and the audio was almost certainly AC-3.

Ah, you mean you did your AC-3 elsewhere, right?

SpeedEDIT doesn't do AC-3.

So did you render out as a program stream, forcing your audio to be compressed MPEG-1 Layer 2 before later compressing it AC-3? Or did you do a separate render of a WAV out? Since SE can't do a .m2v and a WAV at the same time.

[Liber777]

SpeedEDIT doesn't do AC-3...

Ah, I went back and checked, and you're right. I thought the audio was likely AC-3 because that's what I usually do with another plug-in, but for this project it was MPEG Layer 2 audio, 48kHz, 16-bit.