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

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 4/29/2010, 8:47 AM
Uhm, you haven't by chance imported the thumbnails of these pictures instead of the full rez images?
I apologize, but I have to ask.
mTuffy wrote on 4/29/2010, 4:20 PM
no i've imported the full-res image into vegas. its mainly the screen captured video which is my main concern which i cant get to render in high quality. the thing is it used to render perfectly but for some reason recently it doesnt do it anymore
Eugenia wrote on 4/29/2010, 5:05 PM
>I need these video files to be perfect quality like when i first recorded them

This is not possible with either DVDs or even Blu-Ray. When you re-encode to a delivery style format (as opposed to intermediate formats), you will always lose some quality. However, with Blu-Rays you lose much less, since the codec and bitrate is more efficient than DVD. So if your LCD screen that you're capturing is something like 1280x1024 or something, and then you're trying to create a 720x480 DVD, well, of course and it will be blurry and difficult to read. You just lost 3x the resolution, right there.

However, if you're talking about visible quality problems that go beyond the DVD downscaling, meaning, your picture is impossible to view properly, then you might have not used the right project properties while editing. Make sure that your project properties match your captured footage.
musicvid10 wrote on 4/29/2010, 8:50 PM
You haven't posted sofar any of the necessary information.

-- The properties of your screen-captured video (download MediaInfo and post everything here).

-- Your Project Properties in Vegas (all of them).

-- Your Render Properties in Vegas (all of them).

-- Upload a sample clip of your original video somewhere. One picture is worth a thousand words (I'm sure you've heard that one before!).

Without some essential information, it is a guessing game.