Why is AVI quality poor

hektor73 wrote on 8/26/2003, 10:44 AM

I'm new at this, so please excuse stupid questions.

Made a short project mixing DV and a few stills. When render to AVI for DV quality is noticeably inferior to mpeg-2 rendering. I'm ignoring third party codecs and not using Microsoft codec, so I'm using Sofo, correct?

Tried writing to tape and the avi so produced is also crappy....

Any ideas?

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Erk wrote on 8/26/2003, 4:07 PM

hektor,

What template are you using when rendering to AVI? what is your source material? are there particular artifacts or other ugliness you could describe that make the AVI look worse than your MPEGs?

Greg

hektor73 wrote on 8/26/2003, 4:26 PM

Source: Digital video captured across firewire from Sony DCRTRV340 and digital stills originally 3072 x 2048 (Canon D60) resized to 1440 x 960 and saved as level 8 jpg in Photoshop 7.01.

The mpeg-2 just looks alot sharper (stills and video) as viewed on Windows Media Player. The only way I can get the AVIs to look as good is save uncompressed, but that's just too big, they choke Media Player!

cswain wrote on 8/26/2003, 5:20 PM

Are you using the demo? If yes check out this post:

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=20030708122625.07443.00000009%40mb-m11.aol.com

c

Chienworks wrote on 8/26/2003, 6:12 PM

Which version of MediaPlayer? Prior to version 9, MediaPlayer was set to show DV files at half resolution (327x240). This makes them look grainy and pixellated. Check under Tools / Options / Performance / Advanced for Digital Video playback size. Move the slider all the way to the right to Large.

hektor73 wrote on 8/26/2003, 8:11 PM

Thanks, I'll check.

hektor73 wrote on 8/27/2003, 10:57 AM

no.

hektor73 wrote on 8/27/2003, 10:58 AM

Thank you, MediaPlayer 8 setting was the problem!