best possible render ever

dara wrote on 12/14/2002, 4:50 PM
am wondering what the best possible settings for rendering a project ( to later burn on a dvd w/ Sonic mydvd) are. am not pleased w/ the quality thusfar-- a lot of "jagged" looking lines and looks a bit "pixelated." especially in zoom sections. am using mostly jpegs, rendering as mpeg2 NTSC DVD and have kept everything else as VV has it set. should I change "video quality"? (it's in mid right now), variable to constant bitrate??

am stuck inside on a rainy day, trying to finish some last minute christmas videos.
thanks everyone
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Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 12/14/2002, 5:24 PM
Sounds like you may have zoomed in a lot. If your start with relatively small images, then you can get the results you said. Also remember that JPEG is a compressed format, if you use that as source and create another compressed file, it gets further compressed... not good. When possible you should start with still images that are uncompressed in a format like TIFF. If you can't and you zoom in a lot then start with images 2-3 times larger than the desired frame size. Did you remember to apply the resample switch? You don't have to do it one image at a time, just right click on the first image, select all events to end, then apply the resample switch as one of the last things you do prior to rendering
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/14/2002, 11:25 PM
Except use PNG instead of tiff. It's lossless/uncompressed too, and doesn't require an external reader like a tif does.