high quality for sports DVD

blurred wrote on 8/10/2004, 8:47 AM
I captured analog video using Pinnacle Studio 7 and a DC10 capture card and rendered an AVI file. I brought that into VV 4.0 and rendered that as MPEG-2 with custom settings(interlacing top field first and high variable bit rates). Then I bring that MPEG into DVDA to author and burn the DVD. Will I get the highest quality possible this way. Or are there other settings in VV or DVDA that I should pay attention to ? The main problem I'm trying to solve is to eliminate motion blur(a ghosting effect around moving images). The relatively static video shots look good. I got some tips about interlacing, VBR, and Project settings, and I'm going through a lot of DVDs trying to get everything as good as I can make it.

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JaysonHolovacs wrote on 8/10/2004, 1:29 PM
"Going through a lot of DVDs?" You shouldn't need to.

A) Use RW discs always for your initial work. It's normal to create some working copies to check things along the way. I usually use 1 RW disc for an entire project(until the final is ready to burn to regular +R media).

B) Just view the output file in windows media player, or better yet the free Media Player Classic. Why re-burn DVDs every time? If you just want to see how well compression did, watch it on the PC. In fact, the PC will cause you to be more critical of the compression, because TVs don't display the full resolution of DVDs. Of course, to really check colors and everything, you will need to view it on a real TV.

-Jayson
johnmeyer wrote on 8/10/2004, 2:15 PM
rendered that as MPEG-2 with custom settings

Make SURE you use the DVD Architect template in Vegas (NTSC or PAL depending on where you live) as the starting point. Some of the other templates do not use the highest quality settings. If your video is one hour or less, set the average bitrate to 8,000 kbs. If you plan to show on a TV set (as opposed to a computer monitor), then do not change or "fool with" any interlace settings. This is all you have to do.
blurred wrote on 8/10/2004, 4:25 PM
OK. It's just that someone in this forum suggested changing the interlace setting to "top field first" as a solution to motion blur that I was seeing in the shots with movement. I'm going to recapture the video, save it as AVI, then import into VV where I'll edit it. Then in DVDA I'll see how it turns out when it's burned to a disc and viewed on a TV monitor. Thank you very much for this sensible advice.
blurred wrote on 8/10/2004, 4:27 PM
Doh! I haven't even thought of RW! That's the obvious answer to burning up a lot of DVDs. Thank you very much for this helpful advice.