LCD Picture Quality - Help

Dach wrote on 11/16/2006, 1:59 PM

I have recently began viewing DVDs that I have created with Architect on a LCD TV and I am dissappointed in the quality.

It appears that there is "smudging", I know this is not ghosting. Any studio disc works witha great picture. When the same DVD is viewed on a CRT television the picture is beautiful.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Chad

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ScottW wrote on 11/17/2006, 4:46 PM

The usual suspects - which architect - DVDA or DVDAS? Which version? Which template did you use when rendering? What bitrate? Did DVDA or DVDAS find it necessary to recompress anything when you prepared the project? Do your menus exhibit this problem or just the movie or both?

--Scott

Dach wrote on 11/20/2006, 1:26 PM

Scott,

I have had this experience with both version 3 and 4 of DVDA. It seems only a moving video looks horrible. If I do a photomontage with scanned photos everything meets my expectations. (do not get me started about using hi-res digital photos though).

I am using a custom template that has the settings at...

Video render quality = best
Two-Pass
2,000,000 to 8,000,000 bit rate
Everything else is defaulted

I render in a DVD Arch NTSC Video stream and it is not recompressed. The menus look great as I would expect them to.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Chad