Am I demanding too much on quality ?

[Jacobus Serpenti]

Hello everybody,

Any help would be appreciated!!!!
I've been encoding and testing a lot over the last couple of years. I make my own videos from miniDV footage (a Sony DCP-PC1e digital cam) and author DVD's with it.

I've tried both TmpgEnc 2.521.58.169 and CCE basic 2.67 with the best templates I can imagine :
- On the video side : elementary steam 2-pass 8000kbps VBR, 10 bits DC component precision, highest quality for motion search precision, 1/4/0/1/15 for GOB, default quantize matrix, no filters
- On the audio side : standard elementary stream
- Multiplex both streams with TmpgEnc Mpeg tools

Guess what ? The result is average in comparison to the original miniDV (the cam being connected to a plasma panel through a S-Video connector) : lack a crispness, lots off detail being lost (ex. you can't distinguish the leaves on a tree anymore!).

I would like to send a critical sample for encoding to some of the guru's out there, but I don't know how to append a file the this post. So I'm giving you my email address : jacky.serpenti@skynet.be

So if somebody of you guy's out there could reply so that I send the sample, and you encode it for me and send it back to me so that I can judge of what guru's acheive and how they do this, that would be really appreciated.

Hope to be hearing from you soon!

jacobus serpenti

[flaninacupboard]

what size is your clip? if it's of a small size i'll give it a go for you.

[Jacobus Serpenti]

Hello,

It's size is 36MB, 10 sec of video in AVI format
Thanks in advance
jacobus

[flaninacupboard]

my email account won't accept a file that large, it'll have to be FTP unless you have something like to use file transfer?

[Jacobus Serpenti]

well I'll make it smaller, let's say 15MB approx 4.5 sec

would that fit in your mail box ?

[FulciLives]

I'd be willing to download it ... even the 36MB sample ... but you will have to post it on a website with a link I or other people can use to download it from.

Most e-mail boxes can't handle a single file over 2MB

Also this should be a DV AVI file that is from the original capture or transfer from DV cam to PC

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Jacobus Serpenti]

Ok I understand, well then, would you be so kind as to indicate me such a website where I can post?

As to the AVI file, it a canopus DV AVI file, directly fetched from the cam through a Canopus EZDV board.

Thanks a lot in advance
jacobus

[vcd4ever]

Jacobus Serpenti,

I'm also willing to download the 36MB sample.

vcd4ever.

[Jacobus Serpenti]

Hello again to all of you.

I'll try to upload my sample file to John Coleman's FTP server as soon as he is online again, probably this evening.

I'm on something : my JVC player is a progressive scan player, it allows two playback modes : film or video, which seems to be dependent on the status of a certain flag on the DVD disk (PROG_SEQ if I'm right). I noticed that there is an obvious quality difference between the two modes. But what drives me mad is that I cannot systematically get a film mode DVD with my authoring software which is ULEAD DVD Moviefactory 2.5 SE.

Be seeing you
jacobus