what rule of thumb for qualtiy video output?

emusicmotion wrote on 1/14/2007, 5:10 PM

I tried saving a slide show montage with music as an AVI file but at 6 gigs for five minutes of presentation it saved in two separate files, and in MPEG 1 & 2 they suck terribly, with water ripples forming on zoom ins and a slightly dull, blurry appearance. Any suggestions here?

I'm needless to say a bit concerned about what doing a half hour video show's going to be like. Sorry, I'm a newb. :)

Chris

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Chienworks wrote on 1/14/2007, 6:14 PM

Sounds like you're rendering to uncompressed AVI. Not many computers can play those files back flawlessly as there is just too much data.

Try rendering directly to MPEG 2 with a bitrate around 8Mbps and you should get a much better result and only about 0.3GB for the file size.

jdachik wrote on 1/15/2007, 11:43 AM

Or a DV-AVI, which uses about 13 GB per hour, and is far less compressed than an MPEG. Of course it matters what the final output format is - if it is going to DVD then MPEG-2 is a fine way to go as that's what it will end up anyway.

rustier wrote on 1/15/2007, 12:19 PM

what was the resolution of your source photo's? are you telling VMS to use the original size or to resize to fill the screen? how far are you zooming in? zooming into a low resolution photo can be disappointing. If you search the forums [click the link next to the word forums] key word "photo" there is a lot of good info about how to handle pictures.