Whats the best rendering settings?

theMoviemamma wrote on 8/20/2007, 4:41 PM
As a busy stay home mom I have found bit's of time here and there to make a baby story movie of my son's birth. I love VMS but wish I had more time to optimize it's potential to my use. I finally put together my 12 minute movie and rendered it. The final MPEG2 which i burned to DVD using DVDARCT has quality issues. The footage looked better straight off my mini DV camcorder. I put so much hard work into this project and want the finished DVD to look and sound great. Can one of you "Pro's" please give me some instructions on how I can do that? What is the best rendering settings etc? Thank you in advance.

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MSmart wrote on 8/20/2007, 5:14 PM
I wouldn't think that a 12 minute video rendered in VMS to MPEG2 would be re-encoded by DVDAS nor should it have created quality issues. As a test, render the movide to an AVI file then use that AVI file in DVDAS to burn to disc.

However, having said that, I should have asked a question first... what format did you capture the video (MPEG or AVI) and with what?

If you captured it as an MPEG file then rendered (re-encoded) it as MPEG, that could be your problem. Depending on how much disk space you have, try capturing as AVI and render as AVI.
theMoviemamma wrote on 8/20/2007, 6:19 PM
I captured avi. files from mini DV. I'm in the process of doing what you suggested (rendering to AVI). It will be completely uncompressed right? Disc space isn't a problem. I can just hand a big file like this over to DVDAS? Any special instructions on doing this properly?
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 8/20/2007, 11:49 PM
DVDA is built to do that, so don't worry! It will take a bit longer to burn the dvd - take that in mind - because this time dvda will do more rendering.
MSmart wrote on 8/21/2007, 2:41 PM
Like Ivan said, DVDAS will work just fine with your AVI file. You don't have to use VMS to render an MPEG file to give DVDAS.

It will be completely uncompressed right?

Short answer, yes. Long answer, Rendering to an AVI file from AVI source won't ADD compression. I won't go into details, but there are many good threads in the forum that talk about AVI files and compression. Use the Search link if you want to look them up.

With your *short* video, DVDAS will use the maximum bitrate when creating the DVD image. If you had a long video (over an hour) DVDAS has a "fit to disc" option where it adjusts the bitrate to create an image that will fit on the disc while maintaining as much quality as possible.

Since disk space isn't a problem, I recommend that you always render your finished video in VMS to AVI, then use that file in DVDAS to create the DVD.