dvd encoding

[jrallott]

Hello,

I am lost when it comes to dvd encoding. I am searching for a duplication house which will make replication copies, a couple thousand, of a documentary I have produced for sale. I found a dup house on the east cost which uses sonic-sd-2000. I found another place closer to where I am and much less expensive which says it uses-apple quicktime encoding? I am wondering what I need to look for from an encoder to get the best possible image quality from the dvd's? Any suggestions? Thanks a lot..

Jordan

[mrlipring]

You should really be doing the encoding yourself, or whoever's doing the authoring. I wouldn't imagine any decent duplication business would bother with the actual creating the master, they'd just dupe them.

[jrallott]

actually, the dup place is doing the authoring also...but am confused regarding if there are different levels of quality of encoding?
thanks
Jordan

[Mike Thorpe]

It's all down to the bitrate really... the higher the bitrate the higher the quality.