Save quality from AVI to MPEG-2 for DVD

gogiants wrote on 8/2/2004, 11:29 AM

I did my best to search through earlier posts but I didn't quite see exactly what I'm looking for. My apologies if this is old news!

I do the normal capture from DV tape, and in the past I've always created a .avi file then printed to tape. Now I have a DVD burner and would like to preserve as much image quality as possible; with the price of recordable DVDs I can afford to split across multiple DVDs!

But, when I render to MPEG-2 from MovieStudio 3.0, I don't see any options to tweak the quality. I can only select "DVD NTSC" and that's it.

Is this a limitation of the MPEG-2 encoder that is included with Movie Studio? Or, am I barking up the wrong tree and I shouldn't really expect to see a difference in image quality?

Put another way, if I do all my editing, then render to .avi, then render to MPEG-2 before burning a DVD, what can I do, if anything, to make sure I see the best quality image when playing the DVD?

Comments

IanG wrote on 8/2/2004, 2:57 PM

Videofactory used to provide the mpeg-2 encoder in "tweakable" and "non-tweakable" versions. The general concensus was that there was little point in playing with the settings - the differences were too small to worry about.

Ian G.

Ralph413 wrote on 8/2/2004, 6:39 PM

I use TMPGE plus 2.5. It's a decoding program which gives you different choices. (Draft,Normal, Better,Best) There really is a difference!! When I render from Avi To MPEG2 In sony I get shaking when the camera pans. and a 2 hr video takes about 2 1/2 - 3 hrs to render. When I use the decoding prgram normal takes the same amount of time but if I use better or best it take 8-10 hours. You can see the difference if your willing to wait that long for a render.

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Ralph