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[kirkifer]

Hello all,

From VideoWave, I can export a project to AVI that looks pretty good.  When I burn to DVD or when I export to MPEG 2 ???  The picture gets really crummy and there are lots and lots of green blocks, some pink blocks and green and pink lines in the video.

My NVIDIA drivers are recently updated.

What is going on?

Edited by kirkifer, 22 November 2006 - 03:41 PM.

[sknis]

kirkifer, on Nov 22 2006, 05:30 PM, said:

Hello all,

From VideoWave, I can export a project to AVI that looks pretty good. When I burn to DVD or when I export to MPEG 2 ??? The picture gets really crummy and there are lots and lots of green blocks, some pink blocks and green and pink lines in the video.

My NVIDIA drivers are recently updated.

What is going on?

Could be as simple as your preview window not working correctly or problems encoding and burning at the same time.  To do some trouble shooting.get some RW discs and try burning the project to them as follows:

From VideoWave, save the project and close Video Wave. Open MyDVD and add that project as a new movie. No need to encode before adding the file to MyDVD.   If you only want that one movie and no menu, you can select that from the File> New drop down or you can select a menu and and customize it.  Now click on the burn icon and select create image (iso ) file.  Un-check the other options.  Select location for the file and the name you want.  Once it is finished encoding, close MyDVD.  Open Disc Copier, navigate to that iso file and preview it.  If it OK, copy that file to the DVD RW blank.  See if the quality holds throughout.  let us know where you lose the quality.

Make sure that you have disconnected from the internet and closed down any unnecessary programs including your anti-virus, anti-malware, and screen saver   Defrag your hard drive.  Follow the instructions above  but walk away from your computer while the iso file is encoding.

From what you describe it sounds like the computer is struggling to keep up with the encoding.  You might try  changing the perform ace of the video card to best performance and way from appearance.  You can also set your computer to best performance and not "let Windows" decide.  I'm making these suggestions because you did not post anything about your computer, processor or video card.  You might consider doing so by going to My Control at the top and then look to the lower left to edit your signature.  It will always be at the bottom of your posts so not one will ask again.

Edited by sknis, 23 November 2006 - 04:19 AM.

[kirkifer]

Hey Roxio,

I can output to every type of file except for MPEG 2 and it looks fine.  The MPEG 2 output via Video Wave or a DVD burn through MyDVD, the video comes out with pink and green lines and pink and green blocks.  There is also a lot of background hiss.  

What part of my computer do I need to check?  Is there anyone else with a similar complaint?  I sort of bought this product to make DVDs and so far, that is one of the big features that is not seeming to work.

Thanks for your input.

Sony Vaio
1.44 Mhz P4
512 MB RDRAM
Windows XP Pro SP2
NVIDIA graphics card GE Force 2 MX400 32 Mb RAM
Norton Anti-virus (disabled during burn)

Edited by kirkifer, 23 November 2006 - 08:21 PM.

[ggrussell]

This isn't Roxio tech support. Just user to user forum. I can tell you that your video card does NOT meet minimum requirements.  The Geforce 2 was designed for DirectX 7.  The requirements clearly state a video card that supports Direct X 9.0c.

[kirkifer]

ggrussell, on Nov 23 2006, 08:57 PM, said:

This isn't Roxio tech support. Just user to user forum. I can tell you that your video card does NOT meet minimum requirements.  The Geforce 2 was designed for DirectX 7.  The requirements clearly state a video card that supports Direct X 9.0c.

Yep, that sounds like an issue.  I am afraid that I do not understand how important the video card is to the rendering process.  Can you point me to a Roxio article on the topic?  I did turn off my graphics accelerator in Windows media player which I believe fixed the green and pink blocks (only seen in MPEG2 encoding)....  Unfortunately, that introduced a new problem with a horrible background buzz that is louder than any other audio.  Obviously, there is a problem with the video card, but I thought the video card was for the monitor and nothing else....  Obviously not.  Please explain.

[ggrussell]

DirectX was originally designed for games.  More software is now taking advantage of DirectX commands especially apps that manipulate images like photo editors and video editors.  In Videowave/MyDVD, the 3D transitions and effects are off loaded to the video card's GPU for processing, BUT you need a card that supports the 3D commands.  For cards that don't, the 3D transitions/effects are not available.  Even at that, you still need a card that supports DirectX 9 to properly display some dialog boxes like pan/zoom which does a before/after preview.

Your CPU is also on the slow side. Although a 1.4Ghz P4 will do the job, it would be agonizingly slow because of the proxy files that need to be created during editing.

[sknis]

kirkifer, on Nov 23 2006, 11:41 PM, said:

Yep, that sounds like an issue. I am afraid that I do not understand how important the video card is to the rendering process. Can you point me to a Roxio article on the topic? I did turn off my graphics accelerator in Windows media player which I believe fixed the green and pink blocks (only seen in MPEG2 encoding).... Unfortunately, that introduced a new problem with a horrible background buzz that is louder than any other audio. Obviously, there is a problem with the video card, but I thought the video card was for the monitor and nothing else.... Obviously not. Please explain.

Try this - go to Windows>Start>Run> type in dxdiag > click OK.  A windows will open.  Does the first windows say you have DirectX 9c?  Now go to the sound tab and back down on the audio acceleration by at least two notches.  See if that helped with the sound.  If not, back down all the way.  That should cure the sound problems.  You can experiment with increasing the sound acceleration until you get the problem.  

Is the video file you are working with a mov file from a digital camera?

[kirkifer]

Here is how I fixed it....

I went down to Staples Office Supply during their mad dash after Thanksgiving sales....  I bought a new video card (GeForce FX 5200) and Viola'.

Yep, my computer is on the slow end, compared to what is available today.  I think the fact that it uses RDRAM is what gives it an ability to keep going.  I am investigating my options for building a new tower geared specifically at video editing.  I have not checked this forum for any comments about desired components and so forth, but it might make a good discussion.

[grandpabruce]

kirkifer, on Nov 26 2006, 01:11 PM, said:

Here is how I fixed it....

I went down to Staples Office Supply during their mad dash after Thanksgiving sales....  I bought a new video card (GeForce FX 5200) and Viola'.

Yep, my computer is on the slow end, compared to what is available today.  I think the fact that it uses RDRAM is what gives it an ability to keep going.  I am investigating my options for building a new tower geared specifically at video editing.  I have not checked this forum for any comments about desired components and so forth, but it might make a good discussion.

Some will disagree with me, but I like RDRAM.  I think that my old backup computer ran faster with the PC 800 RAMBUS RDRAM than the backup computer I have now, that has the first generation DDR RAM.

But, with your slow processor, that RAM of yours isn't going to help much with video work.  At least with the new video card, you can use the program.

Edited by grandpabruce, 26 November 2006 - 11:54 AM.