Need Help with Render Quality?

bgrindle wrote on 8/2/2003, 12:34 PM
We have a bunch of pictures taken with a 4 megapixel digital camera, which we put
into Video Factory & added some music. The pictures have great quality & look fine
in video factory, but look terrible when rendered. Any suggestions on how to correct this will be appreciated! I am trying now to pre-render into an AVI file using the best
quality, but still have 12 hours left for this rendering & I'm not even sure how to get
the AVI file to a VCD file so we can play it on the DVD player. Is there a way to take
a pre-rendered AVI file & convert it to MPG that we use to create a VCD if this fixes
the quality? Is there a better way to correct the quality?

Comments

pete_h wrote on 8/2/2003, 5:01 PM
The last time I made a slide show was with VideoWave by Roxio and I actually looked pretty good (my camera is a 3.3 meg pixel) Buy the way, VideoWave is the program from hell so don't go out and by it.

I finally used the advise from various discussion boards and moved on to VideoFactory !

I assume you've brought your stills into the time line, (by default the duration time is 5 seconds per still, [ I shortened mine to 3 seconds for faster viewing and less boring experience], and did your effects etc. added music .... )

As you have worked, you would have been saving this as a "project"

When you are done with the project ( the preview looks OK etc) you can do one of two things. If you just want to make a VCD, then you can choose the "Make Movie" option and then choose "mpg1.... then from the next drop down choice "VCD".... then press OK.

You might want to have a blank CD in your burner before you do this, I'm don't remember if it gives you the opportunity to insert it later.

The process of burning a VCD takes a long time.... first it will render the project to a mpg1 file and then burn that file to the CD....

NOTE: You might want to make a smaller project (ei, 10 pictures or so, with some sound) as a test run, just to see if it works or not and what type of result you are going to get.

VCD's work on most DVD players, but the quality is not what it is geared up to be ! At best, it is near VHS quality.

By the way, VideoFactory does not allow "Menu's"



Eug7 wrote on 8/6/2003, 6:09 PM
VCD quality in opinion is duller than VHS quality and for me unsatisfactyory. My few experiments with VCD stills compared to DVD quality stills at the MPEG-2 render quality 8,000,000 bps is significant. The picture quality is not dull but sharp.