NTSC Widescreen video not very good.

mgrt67 wrote on 1/7/2010, 8:19 AM
I recently purchased Sony Movie Studio and have edited and rendered my HD video to NTSC Widescreen and burned it to a dvd using DVD Architect. When I play the video on my 32 in. tv it looks pixelated and not very good. Is there any way to get crisp non-pixelated NTSC Widescreen video out of Movie Studio, or do I have to upgrade to Vegas Pro, which I belive allows you to change mpeg2 settings?

Thanks.

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rrrrob wrote on 1/7/2010, 3:11 PM
what settings are you using to render your video in Movie Studio? And no, you don't need to upgrade to get good video out of the program--i think you must have rendered it with a poor quality setting, or you introduced compression elsewhere during your editing.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/7/2010, 3:40 PM
Quality depends on bitrate, period.
Bitrate x Time = File Size
The maximum file size is limited by the disc capacity.

So how long is your video? How did you render it?
mgrt67 wrote on 1/10/2010, 7:41 AM
My video is very short, it's only 8 min. long. I am rendering the video as mpeg-2 DVD Architech NTSC Widscreen. The "custom" button is greyed out, so I dont belive there are any settings I am able to change. After I render, I use DVD Architecht to finish. Once again, NTSC Widscreen 720x480 is chosen. I have tried clicking on the "optimize" button and moved the bit rate slider all the way to the right, but this hasnt improved my video. I do not an option for "reduce Interlace flicker", would this improve my video? I do have some stills and lower quality video clips in my movie, but I dont know if this should affect the whole movie or not.
Tim L wrote on 1/10/2010, 8:21 AM
You are converting HD video down to Std Def video (DVD is always standard definition). It is not obvious at all, but one thing I've seen mentioned over on the Vegas Pro forums is that it is important to specify a "deinterlace" setting when doing this (resizing video). Also, setting render quality to "Best" will slow down your render but helps produce much better results when resizing video or photos.

In your project properties (or render properties?) I think you want to specify "Interpolate Fields" for the deinterlace setting. If your video is very static without much motion, you might try "Blend Fields", but I think going from 1080 lines down to 480 lines (std def) you would do fine with "interpolate".

With VMS you can't set the MPEG bitrate, but you can within DVD Architect Studio. To get a higher bitrate in DVD Arch you could render from Vegas to a DV AVI file, then set the bit rate as desired in DVD Arch (probably set to 8 mpbs) and then DVD Arch will need to recompress (or transcode) from DV to MPEG2.

Do other DVD's and std def programming look okay on your 32" TV? I assume other stuff looks okay but that you can see that your Vegas DVD doesn't look as good as it should.

Tim L