Final home video DVD lacks definition

[vettesea]

Hello

I hope that I am posting this in the right area, I have a quick question with regards to the quality of a DVD that I recently burned after capturing footage from my digital camera.

I have been trying to think all night how best to describe what is actually going wrong with the image as the picure is quite good. The best way is to say that it seems to lack definition, as if the images are slightly cloudy perhaps. It is mostly visiable when the images are dark or rather close up.

To capture I used MS Moviemaker to WMV and the saved project as DV-AVI before using TMPGEnc tools to convert to MPEG and then DVD format VOB files.

Any ideas where this would be occuring, could it be capturing in WMV first (I did this as the rendering time for AVI was up to 4 hours) or is it perhaps settings in the TMPGenc tools. Any thoughts would be welcome.

Is this what is refered to as "noise"

Cheers

[DVO]

Try capturing straight to DV instead. I havn't been happy with WMV the little I tested it.

[jgandara]

- Capture withvirtual dub. You would need like 18Gigs for 1:30 movie
- Convert it to mpeg2, if you have a template, select VBR 6000 or CBR 6000 or 7000, whichever is greater.

Looks like somewhere in the process, there was some kind of compression or resizing. Try with a small portion of video, on the part where you have problems and see if this works for you.

[FulciLives]

DVIO is a freeware program that allows you to capture to DV AVI from FIREWIRE input.

So capture that way. My bet is on the problem being with WMV capture thing.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman