Need your Opinior. Tell me your experience?

Labut wrote on 4/10/2003, 1:16 PM
Tell me your experience! I have a Matrox RT2000 and it does a good job making videos. I shoot in Mini DV and firewire to Premier, edit and output to SVHS or VHS via Digital Camcorder (Great Results). I recently bought a Sony DVD Burner and have had a heck of a time getting the right set up and software to even burn one of my edited movies. My major disappointment is in the quality of the DVD produced. From Premier I export MPEG II (IBP) and then burn in MyDVD. The quality is horrible! My VHS tapes of the same movie are 10 times better. I think I can get a better encoder and better authoring program and make the quality better.
Now, on the Martox Forum, one of the users mentioned he had gone to Vegas+DVD and the quality was terrific. I would like to here some testimonials of the quality of the DVDs produced before I lay out another bundle on another product that may not do the job right. The whole reason I started this digital thing anyway was that is was lossless. Please let me know of your experience, thinking of going to Vegas+DVD. Thanks - Labut

Comments

Bill Ravens wrote on 4/10/2003, 2:19 PM
I'm a firm user of Vegas 4 and DVDA. Nevertheless, i've had really good working experiences with TMPGENc (IT'S FREE) and NERO. The last two DVD's is produced/published were done entirely with V4 and DVDA. Both came out excellently. No matter which encoder you use, you've got to be sure to check the default bitrate assigned by the encoder. DVD will take a bitrate up to 9MbPS. Anything less than 3Mbps results in horrible quality.
Paul_Holmes wrote on 4/10/2003, 2:49 PM
I don't know what Matrox's encoder is like, but I know that Pinnacle's MPG encoder worked fine as long as you encoded at 8000Constant. I think you can get the same, or close to the same quality with the Vegas Main Concept encoder if you encode at 6000variable. It sounds to me like you've got the bitrate way too low.
JJKizak wrote on 4/10/2003, 3:04 PM
Make sure that MyDVD is not re-encoding. If My DVD does not like your
MPEG2 file it will re-encode and it will look like crap.

JJK