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| 227203 | 2004-04-05 00:47:00 | I have managed to get video from my DVD camcorder to PC using firewire and Ulead VideoStudio 7. That part was pretty easy. When viewing the result on the PC, the clips look fine. Once I burnt them to CD, using both VideoStudio 7 and Sonic MyDVD (two separate CDs, just to see if it made a difference) the picture quality when viewed on my DVD player is kind of "pixelated". The picture is still viewable, but the distortion is quite noticeable. Is it something to do with transfer rate? You might have guessed that I'm very new at this. ?:| Thanks. | karent (5222) | ||
| 227204 | 2004-04-05 01:42:00 | what formet did you put on the CD?? VCD is a lot less quality then DVD. the other question is how much you have compressed the files when exporting to VCD, more compress == less quality |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 227205 | 2004-04-05 02:19:00 | Format? ?:| Compression? ?:| The files I saved to the VCD were MPG. I didn't change any settings under "Options" in either VideoStudio or Sonic MyDVD. I figured the default settings would do the job. I simply let the software do its thing then selected "Burn". Should I have done something else? I do have lots of CDs to experiment with. I guess I could try and produce something on DVD instead. Happily I also have the software/hardware to do that. But it would still be a matter of trial and error. I suppose you're thinking such a wonderful setup is wasted on me :( However, I am willing to learn from the more enlightened. |
karent (5222) | ||
| 227206 | 2004-04-05 03:38:00 | sound like you have done all the right things and the problem is nothing more then you expectations of the result :-) VCD will look a bit pixelated. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 227207 | 2004-04-05 05:13:00 | karent,I've only done one recording with VideoStudio,as it is so slow on my machine I've given up till I upgrade.But I think I had to select to record to CDR as SVCD rather than VCD,as it shows as a much better quality recording off the cd,than VCD.But it means that the size of the file/video you can record to disc is smaller/shorter than doing it the VCD way.VCD for me is worse than VHS.Will have another look at the setup. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 227208 | 2004-04-05 05:24:00 | Yep,when you come to the Share screen and select burn a disc,the next screen has the option to burn as VCD,SVCD or DVD. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 227209 | 2004-04-05 05:42:00 | Right said, SVCD gives a higher quality than VCD, but because it uses higher file sizes (in some cases, nearly double), it may require to be spanned across two CDs. If it's possible, I'd tell the program to use as much space as possible on the disk, if it doesn't by default. |
agent (30) | ||
| 227210 | 2004-04-06 00:45:00 | Rito. I'll also try SVCD. I'm going to try creating a DVD next, tho. While we're on the subject, is DVD-RW better than DVD-R? The files I am experimenting with are pretty short in terms of length of time - the maximum is about 6 minutes long, the shortest 47 secs. I would have thought it would be possible to save many such files onto one DVD? Cheers, guys. |
karent (5222) | ||
| 227211 | 2004-04-06 01:50:00 | You'll get best quality using DVD, and yes you will be able to get many short clips onto a single DVD. One option would be to use your DVD authoring tool to put all the clips on and create a nice front menu so you can jump to whatever clip you want. This assumes you have a DVD burner, which it sounds like you do. If you only have a CD writer, then you can get quite a lot of good looking video on a CD using the DivX format. If your not too confident about encoding in DivX an easy way to convert files to DivX format is using the AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot) software. Use your video editing software/DVD Authoring software to create a DVD (ie with the vob ifo files and all) on your hard drive. Then point AutoGK at the folder where you created the DVD and let it do its stuff - takes a while, but produces very good results on a CD. Only drawback is you'll probably have to watch it on your PC (unless its connected to your TV). However you can get DivX certified DVD players, which will play the DivX CDs, but to my knowledge they're not commonly available here yet (can be found online I believe, but not in retail stores). Cheers |
AaronM (4647) | ||
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