Help with DVD Movie Factory

craftech wrote on 10/21/2002, 10:23 AM

Hi,

Just tried DVD Movie Factory. Parts of the DVD look grainy (video noise). The Mpeg2 file looked fine, but the authored DVD had the problem. I know that I have to experiment, but what are the settings you are using for VV3 Mpeg2 conversion and the settings in DVD MF. I am using Pioneer media on DVD104.
I would just like to get a consensus of the settings to try instead of wasting a lot of money throwing away expensive discs.
Thanks in advance.

John

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Erk wrote on 10/21/2002, 10:36 AM

Craftech,

FWIW, thus far, I've made precisely 2 DVDs with the exact same setup as you (Vegas, Pioneer A04, and Ulead's Moviefactory). I used the default Mpeg2 encoding settings within Vegas, and both DVDs looked and played great in several set-top DVD players thus far. I didn't detect any added noise or anything.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Hope you track down the problems.

G

BillyBoy wrote on 10/21/2002, 12:03 PM

I use DVD Movie Factory a lot. The best way I've found is use Vegas's default MPEG-2 settings, and NOT rerender in Movie Factory. Movie Factory will accept Vegas's rendered MPEG-2 files as is. So just render as MPEG-2 to disk using Vegas, then when you're ready to burn a DVD, simply use that application's file open feature to drop in the videos you want on your DVD. With the default setting I've got about 1 1/2 hours worth on one disc with lots of sub menus. It will not rerender if you use this method. So if your videos are crisp when you rendered them in Vegas, they will stay that way once burned to a disc.

Try using DVD +RW or a similar rewriteable media for testing. Movie Factory has a built-in erase feature which allows you to rewrite your media up to 1,000 times. I've tried several dozen rewrties of the same disc with no problem so far.

craftech wrote on 10/21/2002, 1:04 PM

Thanks BillyBoy,

I'll try that first.

John

PDB wrote on 10/22/2002, 3:31 AM

Just another consideration...the choice of the media is also important: I have tried 3 different brands of DVD+RW (Sony, HP, Memorex) and had no problems with Sony and HP. Memorex however did cause problems when playing back on standalone DVD player. (menus not highlighting, videos stopping etc...) May be part of your problem...