"Hairy" DVD Images

frazoo wrote on 3/25/2006, 4:06 PM

I just purchased a TRV 480 and VMS+DVD software. Shot my first video on memory stick (three seperate files), inserted memory stick into CPU and downloaded, created and burned DVD and when the images appeared on my television the subjects that were in motion were "hairy" around their edges. This is my first experience with this kind of stuff and I LOVE IT! Why didn't they have this stuff when I was a kid. Any help would be appreciated

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/25/2006, 4:53 PM

If it was on a memory stick, it's likely low resolution, and progressive. I'd imagine what you are describing as "hairy" would be either resolution or interlace issues, or a combination of both.
Can you right click the video file, go to Properties, and tell us the resolution? ie; 320 x 240, 640 x 480, 720 x 480?

jimmyz wrote on 3/25/2006, 6:00 PM

The memory stick images are recorded at a much lower resolution than tape.
After converting to dvd it gets worse. Try to capture to tape and transfer to dvd
and you'll see what I mean.

MPEG Movie EX Mode
MPEG Movie EX will allow you to record uninterrupted MPEG-1 movies and audio directly to the Memory Stick Media, up to the capacity of the media. For example, a single 128 MB Memory Stick Media can record up to 85 minutes of nonstop MPEG-1 video, or over 11 hours on 1 GB Memory Stick PRO media.

frazoo wrote on 3/25/2006, 6:01 PM

Thanks for the response, I went to file and right clicked, went to properties and all it gave me was the size of the file. The file was saved in Windows media saver prior to importing into VMS. I just bought tapes and installed a 1394 card and port so I can download directly from camera to VMS. I'll let you know if problem persists. Another question if I may. What is best to burn to, DVD+R or minus R, or does it matter? Again, thanks for the input.

jimmyz wrote on 3/25/2006, 6:04 PM

Some debate on +r/-r but make sure your dvd burner is compatable with both.
Save yourself some money and buy quality dvd's, it makes a difference.

randy-stewart wrote on 3/25/2006, 6:48 PM

Frazoo,
I use the -R variety. I had a couple of returns when I used the +R on a job once and it turned out to be an incompatiblility problem which went away when I reauthored on a -R disk. Could have been other things too but that was the first thing I tried and it worked. They were older DVD players it turns out. So, now I use -R exclusively. So far, no returns (200-300 disks). Funny, but I find the cheaper players will play just about anything you throw at them. There's a site that you can check a specific DVD player for compatibility issues here: http://www.videohelp.com/. Hope this helps.
Randy

IanG wrote on 3/27/2006, 6:43 AM

Funny, but I find the cheaper players will play just about anything you throw at them.

The cheaper players are built from generic PC components, so they tend to be much more tolerant of DVDs that don't follow the specs.

Ian G.