- No loss to DVD?
- Posted by D & J G on August 13th, 2004
We have been using WinProducer and Sonic to transfer home videos (Super VHS
and DV) to DVD. However, we are very disappointed with the final DVD
quality. Lots of grain and sometimes jerky movement. Can anyone recommend
software that can produce DVD's with little or no quality loss? Are VCD's
better or worse for quality?
We're a bit new to this and would appreciate some advice.
TIA
Don
- Posted by AnthonyR on August 13th, 2004
"D & J G" <donandjane@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:411c0d96$0$11963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
VCD's have less quality because it's less info on smaller disc's compressed
even more, but you just need to find
software that gives you acceptable results and also learn about settings and
stuff.
A great site is www.dvdrhelp.com
hope this helps, It's a long road but one step at a time will get you there,
AnthonyR
- Posted by Brian on August 13th, 2004
"D & J G" <donandjane@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
What hardware (TV card, firewire card, video card) are you using to
transfer the video to the hard drive (or direct to DVD)?
Or are you recording on a DVD Recorder?
Regards Brian
- Posted by SimMike- on August 13th, 2004
You aren't going to get lossless copies to DVD because the data rate of DVD is
way lower than DV video. That being said, I've found I get best results when I
copy the video and my hard drive and then convert to DVD format. This takes
longer, but the results are usually better than on-the-fly capture/conversion. I
like Ulead Movie Factory because I can set the compression formula to "variable"
and slide the quality and data rate to the maximum. This gets way better results
than Sonic, especially on the fly compression.
If you ever get an HD camera, and editing software, the resulting video will
convert to DVD with much higher quality than mini DV.
"D & J G" <donandjane@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:411c0d96$0$11963$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
- Posted by D & J G on August 13th, 2004
"Brian" <bclark@es.co.nz> wrote in message
news:7ogoh01pc85b1enonec9rdgng3v8l3f6fn@4ax.com...
Hi Brian
From Belarc Advisor..
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600) VIA Technologies, Inc.
PM800-8237
Processor a Main Circuit Board 2.40 gigahertz Intel Celeron 8 kilobyte
primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: PM800-8237
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 05/12/2004
122.12 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
97.08 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-851S [CD-ROM drive]
Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
V-Gear SecurityTV, Philips WDM TvTuner
V-Gear SecurityTV, WDM Audio Capture
V-Gear SecurityTV, WDM Crossbar
V-Gear SecurityTV, WDM Video Capture
Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
software..
ArcSoft Inc. - ShowBiz Version 1.3.2.83 *
CyberLink agent Version 3.0.07.23 *
CyberLink Corp. - CyberEPG Application Version 3.0.07.23 *
CyberLink Corp. - PlayListAgent Application Version 3.0.07.23 *
CyberLink Corp. - PowerDVD Version 4.00.2417 *
CyberLink Corp. - PowerVCR II Version 3.0.07.23 *
Cyberlink Corp. - RemoteAgent Version 3.0.07.23 *
DVD Shrink Version 3.1.3 *
InterVideo Inc. - WinProducer Application Version 3.0 *
Sonic MyDVD Version 4.5 *
V-Gear TV Remote Control *
Enough??
Would it be any advantage to record to disk as AVI first?
- Posted by Gary Eickmeier on August 13th, 2004
D & J G wrote:
An interesting aspect of the new Sonic DVDit v5 is that it won't let us
transcode at any less than 4000 mbit/sec bitrate. Also, it will encode
the audio into Dolby Digital AC-3 at any bitrate you need, so there is
more room for the video file. The result is we have never seen any
motion or quality problems with this program. Just beautiful. And it is
rock solid - no more of those LE and SE error messages, where something
wouldn't encode for you. If there is a problem in your authoring steps,
it will tell you before you go to burn. Highly recommended.
Gary Eickmeier
- Posted by Robert on August 13th, 2004
D & J G wrote:
----8<---cutting lots
Yes. This is how I appeared to have solved my jerkiness/digital
artifacts problems. Capture in DV or AVI format. Once the clips are
edited and effects (fadeouts etc) in place, still in DV format, *then*
it's time to go to DVD and MPEG2 format.
Initially I'd captured under MPEG2, then edited under the same, then
burned DVD as same. Gave bad quality as described above.
Pls see thread "Grain/artifacts with Pinnacle Studio AV/DV v.9" from 5
August and onwards.
If I understand correctly, DV format and AVI are equivalent. If I'm
lying then pls someone correct me; I'm new to this too. /Robert
