Rotten end product

Giarc wrote on 2/24/2006, 3:23 AM

I just used Vegas movie studio, and DVD architect software for the first time.

I went play a short clip on my DVD player (non computer) and the end product is horrible. It does not play fluidly, get lots of the digital sqaures that show up when you lose a signal.

I thought it might be my DVD player is no good, not compatible w DVD+r disc, so I played it back in my computer DVD player and it work better,but it gets a few minutes in and it just freezes, just hang with an image on the monitor.

This my first time using this software, so I know I've got a lot to learn,
any thought as to what I"m doing wrong?

Giarc

Comments

cbrillow wrote on 2/24/2006, 3:44 AM

It might be helpful if you could describe your project. What was the video source/type/resolution? Although it froze in your computer, did it look better than when you tried to play it in a DVD player?

Giarc wrote on 2/24/2006, 6:29 AM

The project is simply a short clip of a home movie.

Video Source originally was a Sony DCR-HC21 mini-DV camera, which I transferred to hard drive, rendered the project with Vegas, and then made the DVD with Architect.

Resolution? I'm not sure, and don't know how to find out.

Yes, the quality on my computer DVD is better than the on the DVD player.

I went back to the source file on my hard drive and file plays good, no problems at all.

I hope that provides better info

Thanks
Giarc

Marc R wrote on 2/24/2006, 8:17 AM

I recently had several DVDs I had just burned not work on my Sony DVD player. They would play part way and then freeze or pixelate. I didn't know what I was doing wrong because I've been using the DVD player with my DVDs for over a year. I then retested some older DVDs and had the same problems and realized it was the DVD player. My store bought, studio produced DVDs were working just fine.

One suggestion is to reset your DVD player's settings to the original factory state (read the manual). I did this, made a couple of minor setting changes and all my DVDs started working fine. My DVD player also has a quality setting with different levels. I think it is looking at bit rates with this setting, but I'm not sure. At any rate, I did lower the quality level one degree and this seemed to help. I did not notice any loss in picture quality on any DVDs based on the change to this setting.

johnmeyer wrote on 2/24/2006, 8:40 AM

This is almost ALWAYS a problem with bad media. I can speak from lots of recent personal experience. Normally I buy nothing but the absolute best media I can find (Taiyo Yuden, and before that Ritek and before that Verbatim or Maxell). Recently I ended up with a lot of second- and third-rate media that someone gave me. When I burn on these and try to play them on various players, they sometimes play, and sometimes freeze or pixelate. They won't navigate as well. They are burned on the same DVD burner and are the same project that I previously burned on good media.

I would guess that 99% of all problems that people think are the fault of the burner or the DVD prep software or the DVD burning software (DVDA does both these things), is actually the fault of lousy media.

Buy good media!!

This site has some excellent advice on media: DigitalFAQ

DrLumen wrote on 2/26/2006, 1:51 AM

Make sure that your not compressing more than once. It would be possible to compress on capture, again in studio and again in DVDA. That would lead to really lousy results. Like John said, the stutters and freezes are media or player related but the quality issues could be due to re-compression.

Just something you might want to check...