Final video output is poor quality - please help!

mTuffy wrote on 4/28/2010, 6:23 PM

Hey Everyone,

When I used to do my videos for work i never had any problems with the rendering and final output of my videos but now for some reason the quality of the final output of my videos are very poor!

I've had to do a lot of computer screen capturing (using windows media encoder) - I would record the actions on the computer with the highest quality available; So the video looks perfect - however whenever i put it into vegas and then go 'make movie' and then into architect to burn to disc, the captured screen sections of video lose a massive amount of quality. Stuff like pictures and text are blurry and unreadable etc.

I need these video files to be perfect quality like when i first recorded them so that viewers can read them! So can anyone please help me and recommend anything as to what i could look at or try doing to improve the rendered/final output of the video quality? I've posted a few other posts relating to this already but i havent received any help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 4/29/2010, 4:41 AM

Well, do remember that whatever you put in is going to come out in video resolution -- which is essentially only about 640x480 pixels. So, even if you're putting in extremely hi-rez images, they're going to be significantly rezzed down when they become video.

so, if resolution is how you're judging "quality", there may no be a lot you can do. (Your computer monitor is several times that size and, if you're looking at the video full-screen on your computer, you'll actually blowing it out way beyond its actual resolution.)

I'm not sure the nature of your project, but if you just want a clear, clean slideshow to play on your computer, there are better programs for doing this. (ProShow Gold, for instance.) But, if this needs to be video, you may need to compromise.