Final Output problems

[auad14]

I am having a lot of problems getting my final output to DVD to look good. It looks very blurry. I am bringing in both photos and video from a Hi8 source. I use the AIW 8500 Radeon card and use the Ulead Video Studio6. The edits look great but the quality is terrible. I have a Pioneer A05 DVD burner. I am downloading the file as a MPEG2. but probably don't have my settings correct. I spent 20 hours messing with it this weekend and seemed to be getting worse products.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[D_Knife]

Some more info is needed please
Are you capturing in PAL or NTSC??
What size are you capturing at??
I don't have a AIW - but are you capping AVI or MPEG??
If MPEG - what bitrate??
IF AVI - what codec??
IF AVI - what encoder are you exporting AVI to MPEG in??
What MPEG bitrate are you using??
CBR or VBR??

That's enough for starters I think
Oh - what authoring tool are you using??

Where in the process are you saying "yuck, poor quality video"

[auad14]

Capturing in NTSC.
Size: 720x480
29.97 f/s
I don't know what capping AVI or MPEG means. I am capturing MPEG2.
VBR

the authoring tool in a ulead plug in device

my yuck comes after it sends my edited piece to video file

this is the properties it is given me:
Field Order A
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
(DVD-NTSC)
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 6000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 224 kbps
Layer 2, 48 kHz, Stereo