Quality in Mpeg encoding...

[gutsml]

Greetings!!!!

Just requesting a little help from those who have been down this path...

I have been trying to get home movies, recorded by a mini-DV Sony camcorder onto a DVDR. The trouble is that all of the software I have tried, while it works, turns out HORRIBLY encoded DVDR's.

Ulead Movie Factory, Roxio's DVD Easy Creator 6.... etc... I have bought most of these to my dismal disappointment that the final product looks very *artifacted*.

A bit ago, I worked with Tsumai (sp?) and Premier with great results but the time invested was quite high.

Is there any product out there that can produce high quality DVDR's from DV tape? I suspect that the MPEG encoder is the problem, but would LOVE a program that has the features of Roxio with results as good as Tsunami!

Any advice????

Thanks@

[shiny#3]

Welcome gutsml!!!

I suggest that you stick to your favourtit uhh favourite
tool for the editing purposes. ( cutting blending effects etc.
not doing an mpeg conversion
or what so ever.)

for encoding to mpeg in good quality I suggest using the Tmpeg
Encoder. (see software section on startpage)

There is another tool which is called CCE or Cinema Craft Encoder
(not available on this site). This tool produces high quality
Mpeg2 videos and is of a vast speed.
But it is also VERY expensive!!!

[MLedbetter]

gutsml -

Let me know if you find a combination that works.

I'm having same problem as you - I can capture video from my Sony mini-dv camera to DV-AVI (using Movie Maker) - and quality of DV-AVI is pretty good.

Then, when I try to burn it to DVD, the quality of video on DVD is worse than original DV-AVI. I suspected it was the DV-AVI to MPEG conversion, so I've been trying to use tools like TMPGEnc Plus to convert the DV-AVI to MPEG myself, and quality always seems to drop a notch or 2.