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rextilleon wrote on 4/22/2004, 5:27 AM
Remember, when you render your project as an mpg2 file you are compressing it----therefore you are losing quality.
craftech wrote on 4/22/2004, 6:17 AM
Maybe it was the settings for Mpeg2 that you used in Vegas when you rendered it.
What were they?

John
johnmeyer wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:14 AM
Did you capture directly into MPEG2 format? Or, did you capture into DV AVI, and then render (in Vegas) to MPEG2 format?
Jsnkc wrote on 4/22/2004, 10:42 AM
"did render my dv movie as mpg 2 file and I use unlead movie factory to make my dvd "

There's your problem right there. If you import a MPEG-2 file into Ulead Movie factory to make a DVD, then the Ulead program will re-encode that video to MPEG-2 again even if it is a completely compliant MPEG-2 stream to begin with. Now you have a compressed video that is being recompressed again for no reason. That is why you are getting a really crappy picture quality. This is one of my major gripes about the low end DVD authoring programs, they always want to re-encode everything even if it is fine to begin with!

I haven't worked with the Ulead products in a long time, mainly due to that reason, but you might want to render out a AVI-DV file out of Vegas of your project, then import that into the Ulead program and have it encode it to MPEG-2, that way it is only getting encoded once.
owlsroost wrote on 4/22/2004, 4:02 PM
If Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2/3 are set up correctly, and the MPEG-2 files you are loading in are DVD compliant, then it won't re-encode the files - I use DMF2 all the time with MPEG-2 files and never re-encode.

Check the MPEG settings in VV and DMF carefully (particularly the 'do not re-encode compliant files' tick box in DMF).

Tony