Video quality

rodmichael wrote on 5/6/2003, 6:02 PM

I have just been getting started with DV editing and have been experimenting with V4. I have not actually burned a DVD yet. What I have done is to put some still photos on the timeline and put a soundtrack against the video and then rendered to NTSC.

I was surprised when I played the rendered product back on Windows Media Player on my 15" laptop LCD screen. The video quality is terrible!!!. Is that a function of not playing back to the intended format (NTSC)?

I'm pretty ignorant about all this, so you probably can't tell me anything that won't be news.

Thanks,
ROd Michael

p.s., I'm sitting in a hotel with my laptop loaded with V4 and some sample media. I have a month on the road and have been using my downtime trying to learn a bit about DV editing.

Comments

rextilleon wrote on 5/6/2003, 8:14 PM

Wow, a month on the road---brings back bad memories----Okay--lots depends on how you rendered the media---what bit rate you used--when you go into render as, you need to first chose your media format (WMV), then hit the custom button----then you go to the tab that says bit rate----the lower the bit rate the poorer quality of the image---You probably rendered at the default 28.8 kps rate---the poorest quality made for streaming using a modem. Choose the 128K rate and you should see a huge difference in quality. If you want to burn a DVD, then you will have to render as MPEG2 (another choice on the pull down menu). HOpe this works---it should

Paul_Holmes wrote on 5/6/2003, 8:17 PM

If you rendered to avi NTSC-DV everything should be fine. What was wrong with the video? Was it low-resolution, blurry, did it jump, or what? I render unfinished photo-movies all the time to avi so I can get a good look at them with Windows Media player. I have WM 9 and it gives me a pristine view of the render.