DV to DVD

[rayden]

Need help, I'm a beginner with this whole video subject. Recently, I connected my DV camcorder to my PC (firewire), it captured the video fine, but after burning to DVD it was poor quality. All motion was blurred. Do I need better software, if so what to buy? Is Pinnacle mediasuite 9 the right choice?

[Baldrick]

Copy/capture first the dv, edit and then use a standalone mpeg encoder like TMPGenc Xpress(easiest) or TMPGenc Plus or Mainconcept MPEG Encoder(faaaaaaster) or Cinemacraft Encoder Basic (fastest) for best video quality.

tmpgenc guide
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=566#566

[riptor]

I have the same problem. When I download my dv to my pc in the form of a avi file then I used Win|Avi Converter to convert the file to dvd format. I then burned it to dvd and the sound was slow and the picture was blurr. What is the rememdy for this?

[jimmalenko]

I have the same problem. When I download my dv to my pc in the form of a avi file then I used Win|Avi Converter to convert the file to dvd format. I then burned it to dvd and the sound was slow and the picture was blurr. What is the rememdy for this?

Use this guide.

[riptor]

I looked at the link you provided and was is there software that will do all this in one?

[jimmalenko]

All-In-One programs are garbage IMO. They cannot forsee every possibility and quirk in video and so the output quite often suffers because of this. It's all there in the guide. Use dedicated tasks to do dedicated jobs. If you want to get the best possible results, you have to use the best possible tools.

Instead of just reading the guide and getting confused, download the programs and work your way through it step by step. Don't do anything it doesn't say to do. Just do it. Then post back if you have any issues, and include error messages received.

[BSR]

Use this guide.

If you use this guide with DV video, in TMPGEnc encoder settings under the "Quantize Matrix" Tab, I think you should check "Output YUV data as Basic UCbCr not CCIR601"
When I do this, my videos look brighter.

[gabolema]

I believe you have a problem with interlaced. I'm no expert at this subject but I can tell it because it happened to me, the blur image. I don't know why you got a bad sound.
To solve the problems with interlaced I used Ulead DVD Workshop 2.0 that allowed me to capture directly to mpeg-2 with deinterlaced. The image quality was great! and it didn't took me a lot of time nor hard disk space. Sound was synched also.
Good luck, hope this helps in anything.
Gabriel Lema

[sumibas]

I do this all the time. i use the follwoing Program

Ulead Video Studio 8.0
dv time stamp

User Ulead to capture and dv tim stamp to imprint the Time Stamp on the Captured file. Then i Open that file in Ulead and use the Create Disk Option to Create Dish. i always Use High Quality and 8264 Kbps variable. this gave me excellent results 99 % same as original Video.