Video Quality Not As Good As Same Video In Windows Media Player

[Raemur]

I capture the video and it looks great with windows media player. I create my movie with Roxio Creator 9 and the picture is not nearly as high quality, jumpy and seems to have a line about one third of the way up from the bottom that distorts when the camera was moved or if someone walks in front of the camera. I have tried reburning the dvd but the video quality is just not acceptable and it plays wonderfully with windows media player so I'm thinking it's got something to do with going into the Roxio program. When I play the movie in Roxio, it shows the distortion and as well as after I burn the disk. Any ideas?

[Raemur]

Thank you so much! The video looks great at last! I tried your suggestions with the exception of updating my drivers because I wasn't sure how to do it. Since I got good results, I'm afraid to update my drivers and change anything. My computer is only 18 months old and I have had no problems with it. Do you think I should still update my drivers? Can I un-do it if I ruin the quality?

[sknis]

Thank you so much! The video looks great at last! I tried your suggestions with the exception of updating my drivers because I wasn't sure how to do it. Since I got good results, I'm afraid to update my drivers and change anything. My computer is only 18 months old and I have had no problems with it. Do you think I should still update my drivers? Can I un-do it if I ruin the quality?

 

You are welcome. I'm glad that it is working for you.

 

Yes, you can undo an update. Many people will want to update to the latest and greatest because it may give some added advantages/functionality. I prefer to wait until the update has been out at least for one additional version.

 

Don't monkey with it if it ain't broken !

[Raemur]

I found an old post that said to output as a videofile with MPEG-2 for dvd best quality. I did that out of videowave and the quality is great. Then I put it in mydvd to add menus but the jumpy quality is back. I could find an output as videofile mpeg-2 option again and the quality on the videofile is great again. Any idea how I can burn that videofile to my disk?

 

If someone has another way of doing this, I'm all ears. At least this way I can see the video quality can still be good.

 

Here's a link to the sticky where I got the above idea.

 

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=42369

 

Unfortunately, it doesn't say how to burn the disk with the videofile.

[sknis]

I found an old post that said to output as a videofile with MPEG-2 for dvd best quality. I did that out of videowave and the quality is great. Then I put it in mydvd to add menus but the jumpy quality is back. I could find an output as videofile mpeg-2 option again and the quality on the videofile is great again. Any idea how I can burn that videofile to my disk?

 

If someone has another way of doing this, I'm all ears. At least this way I can see the video quality can still be good.

 

Here's a link to the sticky where I got the above idea.

 

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=42369

 

Unfortunately, it doesn't say how to burn the disk with the videofile.

 

First from MyDVD, burn to an IMAGE file (ISO) when that completes, use VLC to watch the video on your computer. If it looks good there, just copy the ISO file to a GOOD quality DVD blank (no store brands and no Memorex). Use Creator Classic to copy the ISO file to a disc. You may want to buy a couple of RW discs to play with.

 

Please post your computer specification including your video card/chip. Update your video card/chip drivers.

 

Are you working with a clean and defragged hard drive and not doing anything else when you are encoding? Both the CPU and the video card/chip are running hard during encoding. Anything else running at the same time will cause problems.

 

Note: Image below is from Creator 2009 but it will look similar in EMC 9.