jagged background video.....

cigarsmoker wrote on 4/13/2005, 4:28 PM

Very confused....

When using a movie as backround media it becomes very jagged. But when played as a normal movie or introduction media it is fine.

I can only presume that this is due to Architect 2 has to re-encode the clip to have the buttons / text etc on it.

I have tried everything i can think of but i still end up with a very jagged background clip.

But the clip is fine if played as a normal movie.

Any help would be great. I cannot make my DVD and i do not want to have still images as backgrounds.

All movies have been created in Vegas 5 using MPEG2 PAL and i have even tried creating the clips in Architect video stream only.

Thanks

Comments

ScottW wrote on 4/13/2005, 4:47 PM

For your background, render from Vegas as an AVI using the Sony DV Codec, that way DVDA won't have to decompress and then recompress the menu video, it will just need to compress it.

--Scott

cworld29 wrote on 4/15/2005, 1:20 AM

Thats how I got around this problem. If you are going to do this type of project a lot you should make an .avi template setting sony YUV as the codec. I also set quality to best and turned audio off. Code any audio as ac3.

cigarsmoker wrote on 4/15/2005, 5:09 AM

Thanks guys, makes sense. Im not stupid but there is no listing for Sony DV codec. Ill search the net to get it.

Thanks for your help...

ScottW wrote on 4/15/2005, 5:42 AM

The Sony codec should be the default if you simply specify DV for the AVI file. I make the distinction in case you have any other DV codecs installed.

Another option if you can afford the space is to render to uncompressed AVI.