Poor Quality Video

[ArtF]

I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. If I burn to DVD using MyDVD and use the raw footage from my camera. Brought in by EMC10. I can add a screen and output to a DVD and it looks pretty good. However that takes so long. I then tried converting to a AVI file and burning that to a DVD and it looks terrible. Does anyone a the suggested steps to use? Also I added transactions betweens scenes and once I got it to the DVD. The transition looked like I was looking thru a film over my movie, until the transition was finished. I took them out. Anyone have a issue with transitions?

[bimicher]

I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. If I burn to DVD using MyDVD and use the raw footage from my camera. Brought in by EMC10. I can add a screen and output to a DVD and it looks pretty good. However that takes so long. I then tried converting to a AVI file and burning that to a DVD and it looks terrible. Does anyone a the suggested steps to use? Also I added transactions betweens scenes and once I got it to the DVD. The transition looked like I was looking thru a film over my movie, until the transition was finished. I took them out. Anyone have a issue with transitions?

 

What do you mean it takes to long? How long does it take to create/burn the DVD? In general for 1 hour of video it can take from 1 to 3 hours or even more depending on your system, video source, amount of free space and several other factors.

 

You have not given much information on what your source format is, how you are capturing etc. If you are caturing froma DV camcorder (tape) then you shoud be capturing to avi for best quality. You then bring that into Videowave for editing, adding transitions, etc. You save your project in Videowave (to a dmsm files) then exit Videowave and launch myDVD. In myDVD you add your project file, create menus and then burn.

You cannot burn a avi file (unless its a DivX format) to a DVD and play it on a stand-alone DVD player

[ArtF]

Sorry if I was not clear enough. I do exactly what you stated to do. I bring it in from a minidv. I edit it and use Mydvd to burn it to a DVD. I guess I just think things should go faster that 1 to 3 hours. However I can certainly live with that. What I am trying to figure out is. I made a DVD last night as I am still testing out the best way to do things. And when I finished with it. I put it on a high def tv and it was awful. Its all washed out. Yet I created a DVD with EMC 7.5 last week and it was really good. I then went out and purchased EMC 10. I captured a tape from my movie camera. I then went into videowave and edited it. I put in transitions etc. I then told it to burn and it brought up MyDVD.

I added my front menu and told it to burn. That all worked like clockwork. However when I viewed the project on my tv. Everytime a transtion came along. What was a good picture. Suddenly looks like you are looking at something that has a film over it. Once the transition is over with. The picture quality went back to normal. So I took out the transitions and reburned the dvd and the whole quality of the dvd was awful. So now I am thinking I must be doing something wrong. I tried to use some of the things in EMC10 and make it like a mpeg-2 and saved that off the dvd and that was awful. Are the steps you suggested the best. I see some folks talk about converting to ISO or things like that. I am small time. I just want a pretty good quality movie burned to DVD. Thanks in advance.

[grandpabruce]

Sorry if I was not clear enough. I do exactly what you stated to do. I bring it in from a minidv. I edit it and use Mydvd to burn it to a DVD. I guess I just think things should go faster that 1 to 3 hours. However I can certainly live with that. What I am trying to figure out is. I made a DVD last night as I am still testing out the best way to do things. And when I finished with it. I put it on a high def tv and it was awful. Its all washed out. Yet I created a DVD with EMC 7.5 last week and it was really good. I then went out and purchased EMC 10. I captured a tape from my movie camera. I then went into videowave and edited it. I put in transitions etc. I then told it to burn and it brought up MyDVD.

I added my front menu and told it to burn. That all worked like clockwork. However when I viewed the project on my tv. Everytime a transtion came along. What was a good picture. Suddenly looks like you are looking at something that has a film over it. Once the transition is over with. The picture quality went back to normal. So I took out the transitions and reburned the dvd and the whole quality of the dvd was awful. So now I am thinking I must be doing something wrong. I tried to use some of the things in EMC10 and make it like a mpeg-2 and saved that off the dvd and that was awful. Are the steps you suggested the best. I see some folks talk about converting to ISO or things like that. I am small time. I just want a pretty good quality movie burned to DVD. Thanks in advance.

 

Are you capturing that minDV tape as an .avi file, through a firewire cable?

[Guest ml]

I then told it to burn and it brought up MyDVD.

If you're using MyDVD, I'd check the File\Project Settings.

 

It defaults to Fit to Disk and you do NOT want that setting. Deselect that and choose High Quality.

 

Aso, go to Tools and do the Graphics test. You may have better luck with the software setting.

 

The encoding time is something you are probably going to have to live with. The program has to encode that DV AVI file to mpeg2 and that takes time.

[ArtF]

When I captured it from my camera. Roxio brought it in as a DMSM. I just burned another one. The movie parts are fine except it too light. It looks good on my PC but when I see it on TV its washed out. I am still trying to figure that out. Yes I have a DV cable from my camera to the firewire slot of my video card. I checked and using the cable I have it brings it in as a .AVI file. My vido card is NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS with 512MG of memory on it. I also have the latest drivers from NVIDIA for it.

[sknis]

When I captured it from my camera. Roxio brought it in as a DMSM. I just burned another one. The movie parts are fine except it too light. It looks good on my PC but when I see it on TV its washed out. I am still trying to figure that out. Yes I have a DV cable from my camera to the firewire slot of my video card. I checked and using the cable I have it brings it in as a .AVI file. My vido card is NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS with 512MG of memory on it. I also have the latest drivers from NVIDIA for it.

 

Have you calibrated your monitor lately? How about the settings on your TV?

 

Both of them have to match or be close to be able to truly see the same on both. If you have a monitor that self calibrates, use that or you might want to use someting like the Sypyer 2 colorimeter to calibrate your monitor.

 

If you did a capture as avi then it is an AVI file; not a DMSM file. A dmsm file is a Video Wave project file -- a road map to what is to be in the finsihed production. It contains no actual video files. It references the original video file.