Grainy video footage

[ccorwin]

Hi Everyone...I'm new to this so thanks in advance for your patience with me! I've inherited some footage (m2ts) which I'm supposed to convert and edit into a 10-12 min marketing video. I don't know much about how it was shot, camera, etc. as I didn't shoot the footage but I was successful in using iSkysoft to convert to a variety of formats to test. I use FCE to edit and my client/friend would like a 16.9 video that will look good on a 42" tv but no matter how I export....the footage looks a bit grainy and pixelated. This is to end up on a DVD and I'm at a loss as to what to try next to make my footage crystal clear and time is running out...PLEASE HELP this newbie!

[jagabo]

So your source is clean but after encoding it's pixelated? The fix for that is to use more bitrate.

[PuzZLeR]

... or use a better MPEG-2 encoder. I'm not feeling confident with iSkySoft to be honest.

Are you on a PC or Mac?

If on a PC I would encode to MPEG-2 first with a great tool like HC Encoder or CCE, then edit with an MPEG dedicated editor/author tool for the resultant DvD such as with VideoReDo or Womble.

But alas, if you're on a Mac I'm not sure what other tools you can try since I don't speak much Mac.