Newbie quality question

[abward]

Hi, this is my first effort at making a DVD from my wide-screen DV camcorder, so sorry for the newbie question....I barely know what I am doing.

I imported from the camcorder into Windows Movie Maker as DV-AVI, did my editing, and wrote the output to an AVI file.

I then purchased and ran SVCD2DVD (2.1.2422) with the settings of forced 16:9 and 2 pass.

I burned the DVD with the builtin Nero burning.

When I play back the DVD, it is very blurry / cross-stripey when there is any movement in a scene.

Can I eliminate this, and get a better-quality picture?

Thanks

[Jikchung]

Sounds like interlacing. Are you playing the DVD on your PC or in a stand alone player?

[abward]

Sounds like interlacing. Are you playing the DVD on your PC or in a stand alone player?

I tried on both a PC and my progressive-scan DVD player. The same.

I did some close looking at it...when there is motion, the edges of things become staircased. When the motion stops, the edges are fine.

[Jikchung]

Does the motion look "jumpy" or "twitchy" on playback? If yes, it sounds like an interlace field order problem. Does Movie Maker give you any field order options for your AVI output? If so, reverse them and give it a try.

For what it's worth, I use DVIO and VirtualDub (both free) to capture and edit my DV sources and have had no problems with the result in SVCD2DVD. In DVIO, capture as type 2 for better compatibility. Choose "direct stream copy" for your output in VirtualDub.

[abward]

Thanks for the tip on DVIO and VirtualDub.

Here is what I do not understand. I look at the output AVI file produced by WMM, and it looks just fine. This tells me that the problem must be in SVCD2DVD. Am I wrong about this?

Thanks

[Jikchung]

Regarding field order- if the output from WMM is ok, then SVCD2DVD should not cause a fild order problem. You didn't reply to my question about whether motion looks "jumpy" or "twitchy", particularly in fast scenes.

What is the duration of the video, "staircasing" can be introduced if the video is encoded to half D1.

Can you post your log from this run?

[Jikchung]

Check out this page:

http://neuron2.net/LVG/classifyhighres.html

Does the first set of pictures represent what you are seeing?

[abward]

Thanks for pointing me to an example, since I am not sure how to technically describe the problem correctly.

Yes, my video looks like the one on the right of the first set, and especially like the next picture down, most notibly when there is movement in the picture.

I found no option in WMM about field order.

[Jikchung]

Try Restream on your S2D produced .mpg file and see if it corrects the problem. If it does then reauthor with the corrected video.

[abward]

Thanks!

So if I understand this right, I run Restream on the:
VIDEO_TS.VOB
VTS_01_0.VOB
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
files that SVCD2DVD created, and then just burn the disk with Nero. Correct?

I just tried this on one of the files, the 3rd one, and got the error:

ERROR! You're trying to restream a multiplexed file! Only MPEG2-elementary files are allowed! Demultiplex the video-stream first!

So I am stuck again.

I am starting this whole process with an DV-AVI file, in case that helps.

[Jikchung]

No. I would run restream on the created S2D.mpeg file, it should be located in the same folder as your source AVI.

Get TMPGEnc (also free) and go to File -->MPEG Tools and demultiplex the file. Run restream on the video part of the file and the re-multiplex the audio and corrected video with TMPGEnc. Import this file as your SVCD2DVD asset and make a new DVD.

Good luck.