Poor Video Quality with DVD burn

[Jesse]

What could be the cause of poor pixelated video? It seems to occur the most on a persons skin or face. It also occurs on shimmmering water where there are tiny ripples.

The movie is 1 hour and 45 minutes. I set it to "FIT TO DISC".

I shot the movie with a Canon Elura 100. Edited it in Windows Movie Maker and added the movie file to my EMC 9 project. I watch it on a widescreen 37" LCD TV.

Does a low Bit Rate cause pixelating? If so should I split the movie up in the quest for a higher bit rate?

Is there a direct correlation between Bit Rate and SP, LP & EP?

Also, does lowering my burn speed make a difference? My audio seems a little out of sync too.

 

Sorry I asked too many questions. I thought I'd ask before making too many coasters! Thanks.

[Jesse]

Get thee some RW media to experiment with!

 

Two things may be the cause of this:

 

First, and most likely, you are trying to almost twice what a DVD can hold on to one disc! That was covered in another Topic you posted.

 

Second, less likely but possible, you might try setting your Tools – Options to Software Render. Hardware render relies on your Video Card but even if it passes the test sometimes the results are like what you are seeing.

 

If you select File - Project Settings you can set to HQ, SP, LP & EP and see what the resulting bitrates are. – 9mbps, 6mbps, 4mbps & 3mbps.

 

I did just about everything that was suggested. I actually had the same problem with a shorter 20 minute video. I'm beginning to think it's just the expansion to a larger screen. It looks fine on the corner computer. Gets a little choppier in full screen. It was OK on my old 4:3 TV but now that I have a 37" LCD it gets expanded larger and uses the entire screen image. That's probably the problem unless anyone else has ideas. I wasn't using an HD camera but I thought I could get better pictuer quality with my Canon Elura 100.

[ggrussell]

Standard definition is 720X480. That's it. Viewing that on larger TVs, it does get 'stretched' and how good it looks could depend on the electronic/programing in the TV. Quality could also be affected by HOW you have the DVD player connected to the 37" LCD TV. Are you using composite, RGB or HDMI?

[james_hardin]

Get thee some RW media to experiment with!

 

Two things may be the cause of this:

 

First, and most likely, you are trying to almost twice what a DVD can hold on to one disc! That was covered in another Topic you posted.

 

Second, less likely but possible, you might try setting your Tools – Options to Software Render. Hardware render relies on your Video Card but even if it passes the test sometimes the results are like what you are seeing.

 

If you select File - Project Settings you can set to HQ, SP, LP & EP and see what the resulting bitrates are. – 9mbps, 6mbps, 4mbps & 3mbps.

[ggrussell]

Edited it in Windows Movie Maker and added the movie file to my EMC 9 project.

Also HOW did you output the video in WMM? If you used WMV, that could also be a problem depending on the choices you made. Ideally, use the 'save to this computer' option and choose DV AVI. This gives the BEST output you can get from WMM.