Is there away to get better quality from AVI2DVD conversion

[videocheez]

I finally had success converting a AVI file to DVD. When I viewed the DVD on my standalone DVD player the quality of the video was worse than the AVI. Is there away to make the final DVD product have better quality than I got. I used CCE to encode with a single pass.

[Baldrick]

You could try lower the resolution to 352x480/576(it is dvd compliant) and also use highest possible bitrate. But remember that converting an already heavily compressed video source to another format will always make the quality worse.

[jbenj01]

How did you successfully get CCE to acccept the file to re-encode?? I thought I had to use TMPGEnc.. ?? Please explain. thanks.

[videocheez]

I could explain but I would probably leave something out so I will refer you to the guide that I followed at www.doom9.org
First click on GUIDES, then click of FORMAT CONVERSION and then finally click onAVI2DVD using CCE. It took me a month to figure it out but thats because I forgot the step at the end where you must convert the NTSC film framrate to NTSC in order to load it into an authoring program, SpruceUp in my case. If you happen to start with an NTSC Film source AVI, after you encode with CCE, make sure to run Pulldown.exe on the NTSC Film MEG2 file prior to authoring. Then it will work like a charm. I noticed that CCE was much faster than TMPGE. The only reason that I tried to figure out how to useCCE is because I heard people say that it is the best MPEG2 encoder and i was pissed that I couldn't figure it out.

Goodluck,

[videocheez]

Baldrick,

I would like to try your suggestion about lowering the resolution. Do you know of a guide that tells me how to accomplish this or if you have time write down a couple of easy instructions. My source's dimensions are 640x272.

Thanks in advance,

[dvdrules]

Can you please explain how to get pulldown to work on an mpeg2 file. I have a mpg file that is in mpeg2 proprietary format from my Creative vcr card. When I use Ulead MF2, the DVD project previews fine but the final DVD has pulldown problems. When I run pulldown on the mpg file, a window pops up and then quickly closes and I can't read what it says. End result is that no output file is generated from pulldown after the attempt. Am I supposed to run pulldown on the mpg file or on the DVD video file generated from MF2? The mpg file is supposed to be in a proprietary Creative mpeg2 format and Ulead MF2 is the only app I have found that will work with it for now - still looking.

Thanks

[videocheez]

I had the exact same problem last week. What you need is a GUI (graphical user iterface) for pulldown unless you're a command line MSDOS master. Go to the following website to get a GUI that will make pulldown more user friendly. I thought I read somewhere the Ulead Movie Factory has problems with pulldown converted files, I might be mistaken I can barely remember what day it is.

Give it a try and good luck,

VC

http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/pulldownbatchfe/

[Baldrick]

change the Resize to 352x480(ntsc)/576(pal)

[videocheez]

Thanks for the response. I have three questions.

First do I perform this resizing on the AVI before I encode to MPEG2?
Second can I still use CCE to encode if Iuse AVI to DVD to perform this resizing?
Third is AVI2DVD better for MPEG2 encoding than CCE and would you please direct me to a guide that illustrates AVI to DVD conversion using AVI2DVD?

thanks in advance,