Poor video quality - lots of artifacts

D

djkoz

Well-known member
The DVD from my daughters' weddings is of poor quality.

I had a friend use my DVX100A to film the marriages of my two daughters (two ceremonies, one reception). The video was shot in 60i in totally automatic mode.

I used Vegas 8 to to edit the video and rendered an AVI file of about 1.5 hours long. I then used DVD Architect to create the DVD with menus.

Unfortunately, the quality of the video is terrible, there are lots of artifacts, especially noticeable when viewed on our widescreen TV. I thought perhaps that the video was too long and needed too much compression so I rendered just a 10 minute test clip clip in Vegas and again used DVD Architect to create the test DVD. Same problem, poor quality.

I only use Vegas and DVD Architect occasionally so it is certainly possible that I do not have the correct project settings. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.

Dan
 
I suggest you encode to mpeg2 in Vegas using the widescreen preset, the take that file into DVDA. Youll need to render audio seperately with the AC3 Studio. Just use the pre-set.

That said, blowing up DV footage onto widescreen TVs, is never going to HD like. How does the video look if you hook the camera straight to the TV and play it?
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

I have not tried hooking the camera directly to the TV. It sounds like a good idea and I will have to try it. But I thought the DVX100A was used to shoot some Hollywood films and those would certainly be big screen. For example, wasn't "Tadpole" (with John Ritter) shot with the DVX100A?

When I rendered the video in Vegas I rendered it to the AVI format because, I think, that it is an uncompressed format, and I did not want to compress the video more than necessary. Wouldn't rendering it first to MPEG2 compress it even further?
 
I think the idea is that DVD is MPEG two, and the file you give to DVDA should already be in that format.
 
Thanks, I will try creating the file in MPEG2 in Vegas before bringing it into DVD Architect.

I hope this works.

Dan
 
AVI isn't necessarily uncompressed. It's just a container. It can be many different types of video, some very compressed.
 
djkoz said:
I have not tried hooking the camera directly to the TV. It sounds like a good idea and I will have to try it. But I thought the DVX100A was used to shoot some Hollywood films and those would certainly be big screen. For example, wasn't "Tadpole" (with John Ritter) shot with the DVX100A?
Click to expand...

No, that was shot in DVCam with a PD150. Better color, locked audio, same resolution. There have been large screen releases shot with the DVX, but they tend to involve very expensive up-rez, and filmouts. Think tens of thousands of dollars. You aren't going to get there on a home PC.

That said, a pro, or experienced camera operator can get nice footage on the DVX, but it's always a losing battle to go widescreen or big screen. There is a reason that Hollywood shoots film mostly or uses $250k+ video cameras to shoot features.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top