DVD pixelation

mark003 wrote on 11/7/2004, 8:02 PM

I've spent 40+ hours on a wedding video that I shot on a Sony Digital camcorder. It was edited and rendered with Vegas 5.0 and authored with TMPGnc. In the final DVD product the colors aren't near at rich, and I see a lot of jagged edges, especially on stills and low light situations.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can minimize this?
Different settings?

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/7/2004, 8:15 PM
What bitrate did you use? I use tmpgenc all the time & stuff looks great (I recently captured & burned 97 episodes of the TV show news radio & they looked great).
mark003 wrote on 11/8/2004, 3:25 AM
Vegas Video 5.0
In the view screen (bottom right hand corner of VV) it says
Project: 720x480x32 29.970i
Preview: 360x240x32 29.97p Display 360x240x32

TMPGEnc
720x480 29.97 fps 4:3 NTSC

On the DVD viewed on the television it's very square instead of rectangular, so I thought that digital difference might be adding the jagged lines and sometimes-choppy video.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 785 MB ram Radeon 9600

I guess I could have the same jagged edges in my preview but the box is so small it's hard to see. Can it be resized? I don't see a setting!

Thanks for any assistance!

mark003 wrote on 11/8/2004, 3:30 AM
Also when it goes to DVD and the television I'm losing about 5 feet on either side of my video. How do I change the size so it goes back to that nice rectangular shape?

I guess that would be the size of the output. What's optimum for clarity and minimal loss of video?
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/8/2004, 6:59 AM
Use the overlay button next to your preview window (liike like a tic-tac-toe baord). That will give yo ua good estimate of what will show up on TV & what won't.

What's your origional source video: DV, Divx, etc. & what's it resolution?
mark003 wrote on 11/8/2004, 3:31 PM
It was a 2 year old standard Sony DV Camcorder. I'm not sure how to determine the resolution, as I dont have it here. I can post the model tomorrow! Trv something...

My video looks great in preview. The blacks are black and and the area I taped is the right size. But, once burned DVD on the television it looks like

[Revew Quality]option Good (Full).
Color is washed out, nice sun rays coming through the church stained glass have prizmed and look unnatural and the video is cropped to the point that some subjects are cut off right to left and top to botttom!

Please help!

John_Cline wrote on 11/8/2004, 3:43 PM

Just a guess... Did you capture the video via Firewire or did the Sony DV camcorder happen to have a USB port and you used that instead? If so, the USB port is only for low resolution video capture. The Firewire port must be used for full resolution video. Right-click on any of your source footage from within Vegas and go to "Properties." What does it say about the footage in there? Resolution, etc.

John
mark003 wrote on 11/8/2004, 4:28 PM
I captured it via firewire.

Here are the props

Video: 00:00:10.811, 29.970 fps interlaced, 720x480x24, DV
winrockpost wrote on 11/8/2004, 4:52 PM
what bitrate are you rendering ?
mark003 wrote on 11/8/2004, 5:10 PM
I'm not sure if this is my biterate, but here goes!
Audio: 224 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, Layer 2
Video: 29.97 fps

MPEG-1

That is when I go to render as:
these are my settings.
winrockpost wrote on 11/8/2004, 5:15 PM
you need to render mpeg 2
mark003 wrote on 11/8/2004, 5:20 PM
Will this fix some of my jagged edges?

Color problems?

Do you know how I can keep the letter box?