[PhilC]

I have a project in Video Wave that is made from clips of captured 720x480 video. The video looks great when output as mpeg or DVD.

But adding transitions causes a problem. Output to file or DVD contains degraded video just before, during and after each transition. (I'm using simple 2.00 second wipes and dissolves.) It looks like the video goes to a much lower resolution during the transition. There are graphics on the screen each time, and you can see the jaggies appear and disappear as the transition happens.

This ruins an otherwise beautiful production.

Does anyone have any hints? Thanks!

[grandpabruce]

I have a project in Video Wave that is made from clips of captured 720x480 video. The video looks great when output as mpeg or DVD.

But adding transitions causes a problem. Output to file or DVD contains degraded video just before, during and after each transition. (I'm using simple 2.00 second wipes and dissolves.) It looks like the video goes to a much lower resolution during the transition. There are graphics on the screen each time, and you can see the jaggies appear and disappear as the transition happens.

This ruins an otherwise beautiful production.

Does anyone have any hints? Thanks!

Don't output it as anything, from VideoWave. Save your project, close VideoWave, open MyDVD, change the setting at the bottom to High Quality (HQ), add whatever menu you want, and burn to disc or dsc image.

[myguggi]

I have a project in Video Wave that is made from clips of captured 720x480 video. The video looks great when output as mpeg or DVD.

But adding transitions causes a problem. Output to file or DVD contains degraded video just before, during and after each transition. (I'm using simple 2.00 second wipes and dissolves.) It looks like the video goes to a much lower resolution during the transition. There are graphics on the screen each time, and you can see the jaggies appear and disappear as the transition happens.

This ruins an otherwise beautiful production.

Does anyone have any hints? Thanks!

Switch your render method from hardware to software or vice versa using Tools/options. There is something going on with your video system - it might not be able to handle some of the transitions you selected, your video card drivers are out of date, etc. What are your system specs, especially video card.

This post has been edited by myguggi: 09 August 2009 - 12:01 PM

[PhilC]

Don't output it as anything, from VideoWave. Save your project, close VideoWave, open MyDVD, change the setting at the bottom to High Quality (HQ), add whatever menu you want, and burn to disc or dsc image.

Thanks, but that did not change anything. I tried it twice --- once with hardware rendering and once with software per the other suggestion in this thread. I can see the picture change just before the transition starts, and then change back just as it ends. Weird.

Switch your render method from hardware to software or vice versa using Tools/options. There is something going on with your video system - it might not be able to handle some of the transitions you selected, your video card drivers are out of date, etc. What are your system specs, especially video card.

Switching the rendering option did not solve the problem.

I have a Lenovo W500 notebook with 512MB of video RAM and 4GB of system RAM, running Windows 7 64 bit.

Win XP is also on the machine, so I suppose I could try burning a disc from there, but I don't know how that would help. Everything is working great under Win 7.

[myguggi]

Thanks, but that did not change anything. I tried it twice --- once with hardware rendering and once with software per the other suggestion in this thread. I can see the picture change just before the transition starts, and then change back just as it ends. Weird.



Switching the rendering option did not solve the problem.

I have a Lenovo W500 notebook with 512MB of video RAM and 4GB of system RAM, running Windows 7 64 bit.

Win XP is also on the machine, so I suppose I could try burning a disc from there, but I don't know how that would help. Everything is working great under Win 7.

NOtebooks/laptops often have lots of problems handling video since they do not have proper video cards. Of course running W7, 64bit as also another variable that could be causing problems as that is still a Beta version.

[PhilC]

NOtebooks/laptops often have lots of problems handling video since they do not have proper video cards. Of course running W7, 64bit as also another variable that could be causing problems as that is still a Beta version.

A new discovery: It's NOT the transitions. The same thing happens between clips with no transitions.

Just for kicks, I set the progressive option. This stops the problem, but then the entire video is kind of blurry. The capture must be interlaced because the final product looks great when I set the interlaced option in Roxio.

Am I trimming the clips the wrong way? I see only one way to do it --- click Trim, then set the start and end times.

FYI, my video card is an ATI Mobility FireGL V5700.