Quality of vv3 render and burn vcd?

swoodbury wrote on 12/27/2001, 6:45 PM

I have rendered a dozen vcd's and tried "tweaking" the template settings as best I knew how and got the same poor blocky quality when I played it on my dvd. I even tried render to file and burn with nero 5.5 with same results. I burned a "test" vcd from a downloaded mpeg file using nero 5.5 and it was awsome (near dvd). So why do my own renderings look so blocky and what can I do to improve the quality? I have a 10 gig drive full of my captured home movies!!! I NEED HELP!

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wvg wrote on 12/27/2001, 10:20 PM

You can over "tweak" and end up making things worse. Every time you recompress a file that already was compressed each generation is subsequently a little worse. Unless your source file was created with a near lossless MPEG codec, you're compressing an already compressed file.

What we need is some "test" file and a common site to download, upload to. I haven't had much time to play with VV3 yet. Just one quick observation, I noticed the default setting if you click on advanced for rendering the quality silder is about mid position. Have you tried pushing the slider all the way to the right to reduce compression and thus improve quality?

swoodbury wrote on 12/27/2001, 11:26 PM

I tried the default settings first, then bumping the slider to max, then upping the resolution, then the frame rate (this wouldn't render) and I did this for each vcd and mpeg setting (only changing one thing at a time and then a combination of the two). I tried burning each mpeg render with nero 5.5 also (nero would not read the vcd render).
thats 5 vcd's, and 3 mpegs with vv3 and 4 mpeg's with nero, and all are blocky (higher res was sligtly better but not even vhs quality (( could not read a street sign over a persons head)). It's not my nero, burner, or dvd player that,s the problem, it's vv3 rendering. I proved that with a downloaded mpeg file burned to vcd.
The captured video looks fine on my computer and direct to tv from the camra is fine also.

tboydva wrote on 12/28/2001, 10:39 AM

Don't know if this helps, but I had similar problems. Somewhere in this forum I found info (credit is due elsewhere) concerning mp3 music tracks in your project. If you have mp3s on your timeline, convert them to wav and reinsert. This cleared up the problem for me?