If that is the case, then maybe just one out of 5 of every images you see when that thingie kicks in is a real image, the rest are created by the chip on the fly, and thus can be woefully distorted in certain shots, like pans and fast moving scenes. In practice it’s probably just a digital processing of the image to interpolate frames and make it look smoother than it really is. That “600hz” thingie sounds like a dumb marketing term. Ofc the image isn’t gonna be as sharp during medium/high speed panning shots than stationary shots: motion cameras are just like normal photographic cameras, if you move them while you are taking pictures you get some motion blur however the display can also cause additional blurriness on top of that if it’s not set right. It sounds to me like it has a lot more to do with your TV than the WDTV or the video files. This is one of the files that shows the problem: I can’t test the file on the PC, because I don’t think VLC is configured correctly the video is not smooth at all. All encoded I will try to make a video of the issue. everytime the camera pans from left to right or right to left all edges become blurry until the movement stops. The split MKV can easily be rejoined at a later data.It’s happened in all files I’ve played. If your output is MKV you can split the MKV file using MKVMergeGUI to burn it onto two discs. I either keep the original AC3 audio or convert the DTS audio to AAC.Īnother option to consider is splitting the encode over more than one DVD, should the CRF value and resolution you use result in a file size larger than DVD5. I generally don't keep DTS audio though as that tends to be over 1GB on it's own.
I generally use x264's default settings and a CRF value of 18 and most/many 720p movie encodes will still come in under DVD5 size. Personally I always use CRF encoding because you can pick a quality you're happy with and every encode will be of a fairly consistent quality relative to the source. I don't use Vidcoder so I don't know what sort of noise filtering it offers. As noisy video is harder to compress using a noise filter can help keep the file size down while maintaining quality. I'd not been big on noise filtering until I started encoding Bluray discs, but these days I often run a noise filter before resizing to 720p. To make it fair, use the same encoder settings each time and use single pass, CRF encoding, rather than 2 pass encoding.Īs many Bluray discs tend to be fairly noisy, you might consider running some sort of noise filter when encoding.
Maybe pick a movie you consider to have a high amount of fine detail and re-encode a section of it at both 1080p and 720p to see how much difference you can see. However rather than take my word, or anyone else's word for it, it really comes down to what you can see yourself. Maybe 1080p worth of noise, but not "detail" as such.
In my opinion the majority of Bluray discs don't contain 1080p worth of detail.