Soft videos when converting DVD video to mpg2

[snapware]

Is it possible that when i render a mpg in Vegas that the video looks "soft"

the video footage is coming out very soft compared to the original video

[jagabo]

You may have two issues:

1) Vegas may be showing a deinterlaced image which will look a little less sharp but will be free of interlace comb artifacts.

2) TVs normally receive a fuzzy picture and have sharpening filters to make it look more crisp. Computer monitors normally receive a very sharp picture from the graphics card so they do no sharpening. So when you look at video on a computer it usually appears less sharp than when viewed on TV -- even if the two displays are the same size, and even though the computer monitor is capable of a much sharper picture.

Another thing to consider: computer monitors have very different gamma curves than TVs. Unless the program displaying the video on the computer is correcting for this you will see a darker and more saturated image on the computer.

[snapware]

I notice often times, the .avi that i convert to mpg2 is much sharper than the mpg file

the mpg file is very soft looking, what is a better way to convert avi to mpg2 instead of going through Vegas?

[guns1inger]

The debugmode frameserver will allow you to frameserve from the Vegas timeline to any encoder - ProCoder and CCE will both read from it.

If you don't need to edit, then you can just encode.

[jagabo]

I notice often times, the .avi that i convert to mpg2 is much sharper than the mpg file

Well, that's not normal. There should be very little drop in sharpness when converting to MPEG. For example going from 720x480 DV AVI to 720x480 MPEG should look nearly identical in terms of sharpness.

What is the frame size of the AVI source? What video codec is it?

What is the frame size of the resulting MPEG file? What video bitrate are you using?

Are you deinterlacing?

[snapware]

Please help me. I am showing you screen shots that illustrates the lost of quality. Is there a better way to edit video files on a dvd in Vegas? I am doing too many conversions to extract the video.

[LloydAZ]

Why not try using VOB2MPG and skip reencoding the video into an AVI first and work directly with the MPG file. Every time you reencode the video, you are going to lose some quality, that could be the issue you are having.

[snapware]

Why not try using VOB2MPG and skip reencoding the video into an AVI first and work directly with the MPG file. Every time you reencode the video, you are going to lose some quality, that could be the issue you are having.

So Far so good.... this man is a genious.