Authored DVD Pixelated

[stingrai]

I have HDV video captured from a camcorder saved as 1440x1080 mpeg files. They play with excellent quality on the PC, but when I try and author a dvd with Encoder CS4 or Windows DVD maker, the final result is very pixelated. I realized I wont get HD quality on a dvd but I should get better quality than I'm getting. Any ideas or suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?? Do I need to perform other steps first before I author the files??

[jagabo]

Shaky, high motion, noisy, 30 fps interlaced, hand held camcorder footage? You won't get as good compression as one can get with a professionally shot movie (low noise, stabilized, 24 fps cameras). Limit yourself to 1 hour on a single layer DVD and max out the bitrate.

Other things you can do: reduce noise and smooth out motions via spacial and temporal noise reduction and motion stabilizing filters.