I've tried burning a few movies from my hard drive to DVD and every time the result has been the same. The original movie looks great, but somewhere in the conversion from .avi to the NTSC everything gets very pixilated whether I play it on my computer or TV. I'm certain I'm using some wrong setting, but I'm far too ignorant to figure out what it is. Could anyone clue me in on what the optimum settings would be? I don't care if the burning process takes all day if I could just get them to not look grainy or Picasso-esque. Thanks!
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Post-burn Picture Problem
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CallMeBetty
, Mar 09 2009 09:22 AM
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Posted 09 March 2009 - 09:36 AM
QUOTE (CallMeBetty @ Mar 9 2009, 12:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've tried burning a few movies from my hard drive to DVD and every time the result has been the same. The original movie looks great, but somewhere in the conversion from .avi to the NTSC everything gets very pixilated whether I play it on my computer or TV. I'm certain I'm using some wrong setting, but I'm far too ignorant to figure out what it is. Could anyone clue me in on what the optimum settings would be? I don't care if the burning process takes all day if I could just get them to not look grainy or Picasso-esque. Thanks!
You need to provide information on what program you used to burn the movie to a DVD. If it was MyDVD, prior to burning, click on the dropdown arrow, by Video Quality, at the bottom of the screen, and change it to High Quality (HQ). The default is Fit to Disc, which gives a somewhat poor quality video result.
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Posted 09 March 2009 - 09:58 AM
QUOTE (CallMeBetty @ Mar 9 2009, 01:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've tried burning a few movies from my hard drive to DVD and every time the result has been the same. The original movie looks great, but somewhere in the conversion from .avi to the NTSC everything gets very pixilated whether I play it on my computer or TV. I'm certain I'm using some wrong setting, but I'm far too ignorant to figure out what it is. Could anyone clue me in on what the optimum settings would be? I don't care if the burning process takes all day if I could just get them to not look grainy or Picasso-esque. Thanks!
In addition to what GPB said, the length (in time) of your movie will also effect how it looks; best results are achieved where 1 hour is placed on a standard DVD, and about 2 hours on a dual layer.
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 06:14 AM
QUOTE (grandpabruce @ Mar 9 2009, 12:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You need to provide information on what program you used to burn the movie to a DVD. If it was MyDVD, prior to burning, click on the dropdown arrow, by Video Quality, at the bottom of the screen, and change it to High Quality (HQ). The default is Fit to Disc, which gives a somewhat poor quality video result.
I've been using the Roxio 10 Video Copy/Convert program. The quality is stated as "Excellent" and I've been trying to burn 2 movies or 4 TV episodes per disc. Perhaps this is where I'm going wrong. I'll give My DVD a whirl and make sure I just try 1 per disc. I foolishly had thought since more would fit, it would be ok. Thanks!
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Posted 12 March 2009 - 06:57 AM
QUOTE (CallMeBetty @ Mar 12 2009, 10:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've been using the Roxio 10 Video Copy/Convert program. The quality is stated as "Excellent" and I've been trying to burn 2 movies or 4 TV episodes per disc. Perhaps this is where I'm going wrong. I'll give My DVD a whirl and make sure I just try 1 per disc. I foolishly had thought since more would fit, it would be ok. Thanks!
A standard 4.7GB DVD will only hold 60 minutes of video at best quality, anymore and the video has to be compressed even more with a resulting loss of quality.
One workaround is to use myDV with the burn setting at HQ and burn to an iso file. Then use VCC to burn the iso file to DVD. VCC will transcode the overlength video to fit on the DVD but with much better quality then "Fit-to-disc" creates.
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