Best DV to DVD encoder?

[GrandMan]

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering what the ideal encoder to go from DV to DVD was. I've been told that Compressor (2) is feeble in MPEG2 compression. I currently use Toast 7, and the results seem fine to me, but I think that I can't use the files in DVD Studio Pro ; they are directly burned to disk.

What do you guys think?

 

[redAPPLE]

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering what the ideal encoder to go from DV to DVD was. I've been told that Compressor (2) is feeble in MPEG2 compression. I currently use Toast 7, and the results seem fine to me, but I think that I can't use the files in DVD Studio Pro ; they are directly burned to disk.

What do you guys think?

it would interest me, what you mean by compressor being "feeble".

i have used compressor to create mpeg2 and everything worked out all the time. well, i don't crunch a lot of video (mb and/or gb wise), so i am sure results can vary.

 

[superwoman]

I use FFmpegX. It's free, supports a myriad of input and output formats, and has tons of options to tweak quality versus speed.

 

[liketom]

i used to use iDVD 5 to convert anything into Mpeg 2 , just dropped it into iDVD let it background encode and then just take it out of the folder it saved them in

simple fast and free - iDVD 6 will not do this AFAIK