All of a sudden problem with MPEG conversion

[bee56]

Hi,

I've been editing videos for quite a while now and never had a problem using VideoStudio 7. I also use TEMPGEnc Plus V2.5 if I don't want to edit a file but just convert it.

Now all of a sudden I start having a problem. I capture my video in DV format and then convert it to MPEG-2 for DVD. This one file I have looks perfectly smooth in DV format or AVI. But when I convert it to MPEG it looks choppy and blurry when there's some motion. It doesn't matter if I use VideoStudio or TMPGEnc for conversion. Both times the video is choppy and blurry.

At the weekend I formatted my harddrive and reloaded all software that came with the computer and also VideoStudio 7. I thought if there was a driver or codec problem this should help. But the problem is still there.

I also have a Panasonic DVD recorder. So I recorded the same video with the DVD recorder and it looks great. Then I ripped the DVD I recorded onto the computer, demuxed the vob files into m2v and wav files. Everything worked fine so far. But when I convert the files to mpeg, the video's choppy and blurry again.

Any suggestions ?

[BJ_M]

check your frame order --- dv is bottom field first

[bee56]

I tried both, bottom field first and top field first. Both times the video is choppy and blurry.

[pchan]

Make sure you set IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller transfer mode to DMA enable.

[JimJohnD]

Use VC Swap (from the tools section of this site) to see what codecs you are using. Great app for just such problems.

[BJ_M]

he said he is using DV codec


install the free panasonc dv codec and render to that -- then render with tmpgenc

the microsoft dv codec is not very good anyway

[bee56]

Sorry, none of that helped.

I remember right before video encoding started to give me problems I installed more memory in my computer. Didn't speed anything up. But could that be the problem ? I can't imagine but that's the only thing that's different in my system.

[BJ_M]

could be -- remove it and see