[konabrad]

A long time user (successful) of Roxio (V7.5) making DVD movies from my still camera. Recently purchased a camcorder (DV Tape). I wanted the uncompressed AVI format rather than the MPEG compressed format associated with DVD and HD models. I successfully captured the AVI video to my hard drive and then used Storyboard to build and edit a movie. I took the saved movie directly to DVD Builder (without rendering) and burned a DVD. However, the playback quality of the DVD was less than the original AVI quality. The "Best" mode in DVD Builder burns as an MPEG-2 file. Now the questions:
Can the AVI format, or at least an uncompressed format be burned to DVD? I noticed that in Videowave the "Output Production to ...Video File" can be rendered in a varity of formats, including AVI. Is this the way to preserve the higher quality format of AVI? If I select something like one of the DivX AVI formats, can it be burned directly to DVD or must I first save it as an ISO file?
Any help for this video novice will be much appreciated.

Computer;
3.2GHz P IV
2.0GB memory
200GB Drive 0
250GB Drive 1
Dual monitors

[myguggi]

konabrad, on Jul 1 2006, 11:28 PM, said:

A long time user (successful) of Roxio (V7.5) making DVD movies from my still camera. Recently purchased a camcorder (DV Tape). I wanted the uncompressed AVI format rather than the MPEG compressed format associated with DVD and HD models. I successfully captured the AVI video to my hard drive and then used Storyboard to build and edit a movie. I took the saved movie directly to DVD Builder (without rendering) and burned a DVD. However, the playback quality of the DVD was less than the original AVI quality. The "Best" mode in DVD Builder burns as an MPEG-2 file. Now the questions:
Can the AVI format, or at least an uncompressed format be burned to DVD? I noticed that in Videowave the "Output Production to ...Video File" can be rendered in a varity of formats, including AVI. Is this the way to preserve the higher quality format of AVI? If I select something like one of the DivX AVI formats, can it be burned directly to DVD or must I first save it as an ISO file?
Any help for this video novice will be much appreciated.

Computer;
3.2GHz P IV
2.0GB memory
200GB Drive 0
250GB Drive 1
Dual monitors

All video on a DVD is in mpeg2 format. It doesn't matter if your source is avi.wmv, mpeg or whatever, it has to be rendered to mpeg 2 in order for it to be burned to a DVD that is playable in a DVD player. An iso file is not a video file but simply an image of a disc. The data in the iso file can be video or data.
If you captured the avi from your camcorde to avi and then bring that avi into DVD Builder for bbburning to a DVD at best quality, the DVD will be only slightly less if at all noticeable then the original avi.
Could you describe exactly the steps you are taking, what options you are selecting etc.

[ml]

Just a bit more information for you......

If you have a very large hard drive and want to preserve the original quality and store the movie on the hard drive, in VideoWave you can do a File\ Output production as....and make the movie for the DV Camcorder. Then you can store the AVI file on your hard drive or take it back to a video camcorder tape.

As Walt said, if you're going to put it on a DVD to view on a DVD player, it will have to be encoded to an mpeg2 file. Just make certain that you use the BEST quality. I think it defaults to a lesser quality. And you'll only be able to get around 1 hour of Best quality onto a 4.7 GB DVD.

[konabrad]

konabrad, on Jul 1 2006, 07:28 PM, said:

A long time user (successful) of Roxio (V7.5) making DVD movies from my still camera. Recently purchased a camcorder (DV Tape). I wanted the uncompressed AVI format rather than the MPEG compressed format associated with DVD and HD models. I successfully captured the AVI video to my hard drive and then used Storyboard to build and edit a movie. I took the saved movie directly to DVD Builder (without rendering) and burned a DVD. However, the playback quality of the DVD was less than the original AVI quality. The "Best" mode in DVD Builder burns as an MPEG-2 file. Now the questions:
Can the AVI format, or at least an uncompressed format be burned to DVD? I noticed that in Videowave the "Output Production to ...Video File" can be rendered in a varity of formats, including AVI. Is this the way to preserve the higher quality format of AVI? If I select something like one of the DivX AVI formats, can it be burned directly to DVD or must I first save it as an ISO file?
Any help for this video novice will be much appreciated.

Computer;
3.2GHz P IV
2.0GB memory
200GB Drive 0
250GB Drive 1
Dual monitors

Thanks for the help guys. I was under a miss-understanding about preserving the AVI format on DVD. I have a large plasma display I was was viewing the DVD test on and I can see the quality difference between playing the AVI tape directly into the TV versus playing a MPEG version of the same video on DVD.
Now with a better understanding, I can deal with it.
Thanks