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Interesting article on DVD production

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Interview with DreamWorks' Mark Atkinson

Discussing the details of the "Shrek" DVD, interesting to note:

- The MPEG encoder used is by Sony - not sure whether this is a hardware encoder or a software application (would it be the encoder included with Vegas?)

- They use 3 pass encoding, but often 5 or 6 are required until the quality is satisfactory.

- Scenarist is used for the authoring.

- Pitch correction for PAL releases is only applied at the director's request, because it can add digital stepping. (Related to this, see this discussion - apparently Spielberg requested pitch preservation for the PAL release of Jurassic Park.)

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