Problem with quality for SVCD playing on DVD player

[gillman99]

Today I purchased the Pinnacle Express DV card and SW. I'm using this with a sony digital camcorder and when I play my camcorder directly to the TV, the quality is perfect. The process I am using to capture and burn the video is this:

1. Capture video from camcorder (in .avi mode). Not sure if this is changeable.
2. Do small amounts of editing
3. Created a VCD and SVCD disk to play in DVD. Don't own a DVD writer yet.

The problem is that when I play either of the 2 formats of CD I've created, the picture quality is not that great. You can definitely see a grainy appearance (very pixely).

Is this caused by saving the data in .avi format? Do I lose quality at this point, or am I losing quality with the creation of the CD in either VCD or SVCD format?

How do I make the quality on the CD as good as the quality when playing directly from my camcorder?

Or, is this a limitation with not owning a DVD-R?

My computer is not the latest and greatest, but should be sufficient.

Thanks,
Mark Gillman
gillman@denalisoft.com

[hirotec]

You can send the edited movie back to a brand new Dv tape.
In this way You can get the best quality.

For me, captured in Dv format with uleadvideo 5 and save
the edited movie in Dv format too.

Then use Tmpgenc to encode it to svcd,using the svcd template.

The svcd made seems good to me.

Try a small clip and see the result.