I know what you mean about if the audio sucks it ruins the experience I have a few retail DVDs with crappy audio quality Casino Royale for instance and it really detracts from the pleasure of watching the film, like I say I don't have a 5.1 set-up so I wasn't aware of this issue until now, but now that I know about it I am very annoyed by it and want to put it right if I can!
dark_jedi said:
Sorry to hear that Lee, but without good audio it ruins the experience as Ady has said, it certainly would for me, plus the fact that you did DL encodes to me(and this is only me) is a waste, it is only an LD, hell I didn't even use DL's for the 97 SE V2(DV Broadcast source) or the JSC V2 I did.
adywan said:
LeeThorogood said:
Adywan thanks for posting the comment about the audio sync its nice to know I did something right. ;) What did you think to the video quality considering the source was LaserDisc? Furthermore how does everyone else feel about authoring these as DL DVDs being too much?
It all depends on the encoder used for Mpeg2. Some encoders need the higher bitrate to maintain the quality while others, like procoder3, can do the same job at a lower bitrate. As these were a first gen rip from a laserdisc then i think the DL approach was the way to go. With the broadcasts being only single layer in the first place then DJ's approach of SL was the way to go with his as the extra bitrate wouldn't have affected the quality very much
For the audio , i can't help wiht that because i don't know what apps that i use would work on a Mac (i'm a PC guy), but you need to speed the NTSC audio up from 23.976fps to 25fps, not stretch. Eac3to does this easily and you can get a gui for it but i don't know if it would work on a mac. I'm sure that someone here who uses a Mac would know how to do it
Thanks for the feedback Adywan. If you have the time could you explain how and what you would use to do the speed up on a PC? Running PC apps on a mac is not as difficult as you might think, I have both Wine and a virtualised Win XP machine set-up so between them I should be able to use anything you do :) Also and I apologise if I am a bit slow up the uptake but could you explain the difference between speeding the audio up and stretching it?
@dark_jedi thanks for the offer of the audio guide, if you can still find it I would love to see it. :)
Many Thanks!