Help with perfecting DV to DVD

vx2000b wrote on 9/15/2002, 2:50 PM

I am using a Sony VX2000 and I'm capturing using VV3. When previewing (set to best) the video, interlacing zig zag is real bad,especially during camera pans.
At one point, while recording my footage, somebody rode their bike though my vie., The displayed image (dude on bike going less than 5mph))is broken up in zig zag lines.
When I hook the VX2000 directly to my monitor (via S-Video), it looks fine.
Is this problem normal for the preview on VV3?

Also, the following problem does not make sense to me:

I've been using Procoder to encode mpeg-2 for DVD. I've tried others,and I feel this
is probably the best as of now.
When I burn the resulting mpeg-2 video to DVD(Pioneer A04)using DVDi,.
the DVD (played back on my set top player) has the same interlace issues as I described when viewing the preview window?

Why is this happening? At no time have I changed the format. It should be NTSC interlace from beginning to end. As I mentioned before, I know when I play back the camera hooked up to my monitor it's fine?
Steve

Comments

Paul_Holmes wrote on 9/15/2002, 5:43 PM

I never find it necessary to preview at best. On my 650mhz I see the same kind of breakup and the frame rate is reduced. I actually preview at draft when I'm doing it full-size and "good" when I'm previewing in a small window. On my Ath1800 I preview at good fullsize and in the small window. I don't think you have anything to worry about if you reduce the preview quality. Once you get used to editing with Vegas you'll see that good, or even draft at fullsize gives you enough information to do excellant color-correction and contrast correction. It took me a few times of editing then putting samples out to tape to realize that I could edit the whole movie without hooking up to a monitor and it would all turn out as I wanted.

Finally, if it's looking good on your monitor but not after you render it to MPEG, then it's probably an encoding issue. I've been using the standard Main Concept DVNTSC template and setting it to a high of 8000 and an average of 6000 and I honestly can't see any difference between the video when I play it directly from tape to monitor, or as a DVD-R, after burning.