Rendering problem/questions

BobMoyer wrote on 9/1/2002, 9:15 AM
System: Win98SE/VV3.0c

In the past I have successfully created a project with VV3.0a. This is my first attempt with the newest version and I need some help. This project has a series of stills that appear with the beat of some background music. It then fades into a title sequence and then into the captured digital video (Sony TRV 30). After making my cuts and transitions, the timeline plays perfectly with the preview window. I then selected 'all' and rendered to MPEG2 (DVD NTSC) with all of the default settings. The result was terrible. The pics did not appear in beat with the music and the video would play then pause then play then pause, etc. Also, the video quality was poor in that it seemed to show the movements with 'ragged' edges. Here are the properties of the media:

Stills:
resized to 655x480x24
Lower Field First
Multimedia
None

Video:
720x480x24
Lower Field First
0.9091 (NTSC DV)
None

Should I have rendered the project first to .avi or something else? Thanks for any help you can give me. The mpeg2 file plays poorly in both my player (MediaBar) and if I reload it to the timeline in a new project in VV3.0c. The last project plays perfectly in both. First project was about 42 minutes long and this new project is only about 7 minutes long at this point. I rendered it just to see if the stills appeared as perfectly in the finished product as in the project timeline.

Bob

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 9/3/2002, 8:30 AM
Have you tried burning this file to DVD and watching it on a TV? Software-based playback of MPEG-anything is not a reliable indicator of how the program will look on disc.

If you aren't going to burn the file to DVD, is there a reason your are rendering as MPEG-2?
BobMoyer wrote on 9/3/2002, 4:37 PM
Thanks for your reply. I intend to burn this to a DVD when I get the project completed. I had wanted to see how the sound/still sequence looked...whether it was in sync or not. Following your suggestion, I loaded the mpeg file into DVDiT!SE and the preview played perfectly. I am a little confused (normal for me) due to the fact that I KNOW I used the mpeg2 file from the last project in my MediaBar viewer and it played without any problems. I guess I just paniced when this mpeg2 render looked so bad both on the timeline and in MediaBar. Thanks again.

Bob