Going from mp4 to mpg2 (DVD)

ziscwg wrote on 3/1/2011, 10:22 PM
I have some training videos I want to piece together to make a longer workout.
I'm using ver 9

Here are the codec specs for one of the files as shown by VLC:

Type: Video
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
Language: English
Resolution: 640x360
Frame rate: 29.970000

When I get all my workout sections I want together, I tell it to render for DVD. I want to be able to put them on DVD to play easily in my garage training set up.

The issue I have is that the video quality is bad. It has those interlace lines and such in it.

Am I going about this render part wrong? What settings are best to get good video going from mp4 to mp2 (dvd)?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/2/2011, 5:56 AM
You don't say what kind of camcorder your video came from -- but AVC video is usually hi-def AVCHD. Is this video directly from the camcorder?

When you started your Vegas project, did you select the AVCHD project settings? This is very important.

If so, you should be able to just to go Make Movie and select the Burn DVD option and it should output a video that will load right into DVD Architect for authoring as a DVD.

Meantime, don't judge what your video looks like based on how it plays in Windows Media Player. Media Player doesn't do a very good job of de-interlacing MPEGs.

Rather, output a DVD and play it on your DVD. If you've used the correct project settings, as a discussed above, it should almost as good as the original footage.
musicvid10 wrote on 3/2/2011, 7:53 AM
640x360 is smaller than standard DVD resolution.
When it gets upsampled and then played on a TV the quality and clarity will suffer.
No way to get around it.
Chienworks wrote on 3/2/2011, 9:21 AM
I'd also bet that they've been compressed to low bitrate for web delivery, hence the small size. That will just compound matters even worse.
ziscwg wrote on 3/3/2011, 2:21 PM
@ Steve Grisetti
I dont know the camcorder. It was from my coach's website that I downloaded. Is there a way to tell from the video?

I didnt select the AVCHD in the project settings.

I may redo the project with AVCHD selected. It really is only 5 segments with no fancy transitions. I don't really care about a nice transition. I do have to look at the video a lot. So, I do like it to look good during normal play on the dvd
Steve Grisetti wrote on 3/3/2011, 3:30 PM
I agree with the others, ziscwq.

For a number of reasons, this video is probably not of a format or size or even quality that you'll be able to work with successfully. Sorry.
ziscwg wrote on 3/4/2011, 4:54 PM
Well for fun, I fired up the render to an AVI file...................Yahhooooo, 177 gb of pure workout, LOL.

That avi render looked as good as the original. Which is fine. I wasn't expecting it to be better than the original.

Then, I took that avi and made it mpg2. That turned out good too. I know the org video isn't that great, but I just wanted to splice sections together that would look nearly as good as the original.