Quality of DVDs

Labut wrote on 4/10/2003, 11:31 AM
I guess I am looking for some advice! I have had for some time a Matrox RT2000 and it does a good job making videos. 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.
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. Please let me know of your experience, thinking of going to Vegas+DVD. Thanks - Labut

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PDB wrote on 4/10/2003, 12:01 PM
From my limited practical experience and tons of reading, I would say that the quality you are getting has more to do with:

a) the settings on your Mpeg2 render
b) the programme you are using to author and burn your DVD and whether it re-encodes the file
c) the media you are burning on
d) where you are viewing your dvd from (PC, standalone etc...)

Some of these could be NLE or authoring programme/burning related; others more to do with what you are using to render the original AVI file to MPEG2.

Having said that, and this being a Vegas Forum, a few of us will probably urge you to give Vegas a try...

I only do home videos off a minidv cam, but I can say I am very happy with the results I'm getting...My only real problem is that I have fallen in love with Vegas and so it just makes me churn out more and more dvds... :)

Anyway, to be fair, you will probaly be able to produce excellent quality DVDs with what you have if you do it right/and have a good Mpeg2 encoder IMHO.

But give Vegas a try...I THINK you can actually download the demo of Vegas + DVD and burn a sample project (also downloaded from Sonic Foundries site) to check the results - someone correct me if I'm wrong!

I'm sure more will be happy (myself included) to help out further if you need more assistance.

Best regards

Paul.
zcus wrote on 4/10/2003, 12:03 PM
I own a Matrox RT2000 also and its collecting alot of dust on my shelf...
The Matrox IBP export is HORRIBLE at best! Working with Vegas is a dream compaired to the RT2000/Premiere. I have Vegas +DVD and the results I got on the first DVD burned were perfect - no errors, and played on my set top player fine and looked almost identical to the oridginal footage.

DVD architect needs improvement but does the job for a 1.0 release.
Labut wrote on 4/10/2003, 1:14 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
riredale wrote on 4/10/2003, 5:47 PM
The image quality of a DVD done correctly should look pretty much identical to the DV source material.