palmer666 posted:Okay.... Dear ninjaw.
First: I know, that there is no real 5.1 sound. A user here has studio equipment, and suggested to made one. I have uploaded the files for him. Thats the deal.
Second: What is your understanding of official sound? The RAW material from the MOV files? I don´t think, that anyone would use RAW sound for a e.g. Retail-DVD.
Third: I don´t used double compression. When you read my post correctly, you should have noticed, that i used 2-Pass CBR (Constand Bit Rate). First pass to make an analyse, the second to encode in the same bitrate like 1st pass. That is normal MEPG2 encoding....
Fourthly: Some old DVD players are not able to play DL DVDR. My thinking of it was to provide the DVD to all users with max. compatibility and maximum possible (MPEG2) quality.
Fifthly: Okay. I have tested it more times and the conclusion was artifacts in dark scenes. Wehn you know, how to prevent that, please let me know and instruct me.
I have absolutly no problem with criticism, but you should do that after you have downloaded and watched the encode. After that, you have the possibilty to impartial criticize me.

1st) a bad one ... unfortunally, actually anyone can produce such false 5.1, you just have to use a dolby stereo surround (2.2) to dolby digital surround (5.1) automatic converter. my point is there is no way to produce a real usual 5.1 mix
2nd) plz what you call raw is a very reworked sound, why do you think all the cams got same sound
3rd) yes you have, you said you used : Mpeg2 -> Mpeg4 -> Mpeg2 triple conversion, and ... sure it's easier to edit, and download, but then you lost quality...
4th) anyway, that's the same thing
5th) well it's just an encoder thing, if one encoder produce bad black, change it, one of the best all time encoder is tmpgenc, asuming you use tools that allow to change encoder ... probably not hey ?
I dont care actually about dvd release actually, i'm already fully HD, but things needed to be clarified, your editing maybe good, but not your encoding, sure the result is good, but you used dirty steps, that black issues you mentioned ? maybe that totally useless mpeg4 step did it ? not mentioning the double resolution change you used 1080 -> 720 -> 360