DV to DVD Dubs
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Scott Carnegie in Blog
I’ve been doing a lot of dubs lately from DV tape (both mini-DV and HDV) to DVD for clients, particularly the Eritrean Community of Winnipeg We’ve been meeting.a lot lately, working on helping them get funding for a future, big project. One of the things I was making DVD’s of all of the footage we taken so far, about 10 tapes worth. They are going to be relying a lot on the community members to assist in completing the project, so they have timcode dubs of the footage for them to look at.
It took a lot of work to make that happen. I captured all of the material into Avid, added the generate>timecode effect and then exported out QT References. By doing the export I was able to render all of the sequences at the same time. Rending a timecode effect on 8 hours of footage, even on fast system, is going to take some time. I went to sleep and when I woke up, voila, it was done.
I took those QT reference files and brought them into Sorenson Squeeze to create the MPEG2 files I would need for DVD. Rendering all of those hours of footage into good quality MPEG2′s was going to take a long time as well, so I went away for the weekend and let them finish. When I came home, again, voila, it was done!
Tonight I brought all of these videos into Adobe Encore, let the audio transcode within Encore and burnt one disc per original shoot tape. I thought the burning process would actually take longer but it turned out to be the quickest step of the whole workflow.
Now the DVD’s are burnt, printed on (I use ink jet printable DVD’s, looks slick) and in nice cases, ready for delivery to the client.
