Hello,
I am working on a piece, which will be downsized from the original 720x480 to float atop an animated background. I will be creating an alpha (partially transparent) overlay graphic, which will sit over the main video window (basically a glorified box which will frame the video). I have edited the segments of this piece at the 720x480 size (not rescaled to the final size) for the sake of easy viewing and layout. I have numerous picture in picture windows, text titles, and graphics appearing throughout this project.
My original thought was to edit the video at full resolution, render it to .avi, then rescale the single .avi file (containing all of the embedded picture in picture and text overlays) to fit the final graphic layout. I’ve created a test segment where I rendered an .avi from the timeline using the DV NTSC template (“do not letterbox”), and I dropped it into a new timeline containing the alpha overlay. I next rendered an MPEG-2 (NTSC DVD). When I play this file back in Win Media Player, there seems to be a discernable loss of quality in the main video, and the picture in picture sections as well. Most notably, there seems to be a significant loss of sharpness, and visible interlacing artifacting. My source video is of good quality (DV CAM).
I spoke to tech support today, and they told me that I should not notice any discernable loss in quality when I resize video, etc. in VV5. Is what I’m seeing in Win Media Player an accurate representation of what this video will look like when played on DVD? Is there a setting that I’m missing? Am I doing something incorrectly? Am I better off resizing each event (pic in pic, etc.) in the original timeline to precise scale including all alpha graphics - rendering the final MPEG-2 from that? Any suggestions would be profoundly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Movick
I am working on a piece, which will be downsized from the original 720x480 to float atop an animated background. I will be creating an alpha (partially transparent) overlay graphic, which will sit over the main video window (basically a glorified box which will frame the video). I have edited the segments of this piece at the 720x480 size (not rescaled to the final size) for the sake of easy viewing and layout. I have numerous picture in picture windows, text titles, and graphics appearing throughout this project.
My original thought was to edit the video at full resolution, render it to .avi, then rescale the single .avi file (containing all of the embedded picture in picture and text overlays) to fit the final graphic layout. I’ve created a test segment where I rendered an .avi from the timeline using the DV NTSC template (“do not letterbox”), and I dropped it into a new timeline containing the alpha overlay. I next rendered an MPEG-2 (NTSC DVD). When I play this file back in Win Media Player, there seems to be a discernable loss of quality in the main video, and the picture in picture sections as well. Most notably, there seems to be a significant loss of sharpness, and visible interlacing artifacting. My source video is of good quality (DV CAM).
I spoke to tech support today, and they told me that I should not notice any discernable loss in quality when I resize video, etc. in VV5. Is what I’m seeing in Win Media Player an accurate representation of what this video will look like when played on DVD? Is there a setting that I’m missing? Am I doing something incorrectly? Am I better off resizing each event (pic in pic, etc.) in the original timeline to precise scale including all alpha graphics - rendering the final MPEG-2 from that? Any suggestions would be profoundly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Movick