Pinnacle Studio 8 - DV Video Encoder - Quality

[bigcobra]

Hi All,

I'm using Studio 8 to detect scene and reorder them + visual effects.
I want to save the movie as DV file and rencode it to MPEG using
canopus ProCoder 1.5.

The problem is that when I Save the File as "DV Video Encoder" the quality is not like the Original DV at all, I can see the pixles of the pictures and they are not sharp as the original DV. I manage only one to save as DV and it went OK - the quality was great - but I can't manage to repeat it.

I tried to install clean install of studio and event tries to add Mainconcept and Panasonic DV Codec, I also updated the Studio to the latest versions.

Can someone help me out please ???!!??!?!?!?

Thanks,

[hiptune]

Hi All,

I'm using Studio 8 to detect scene and reorder them + visual effects.
I want to save the movie as DV file and rencode it to MPEG using
canopus ProCoder 1.5.

The problem is that when I Save the File as "DV Video Encoder" the quality is not like the Original DV at all, I can see the pixles of the pictures and they are not sharp as the original DV. I manage only one to save as DV and it went OK - the quality was great - but I can't manage to repeat it.

I tried to install clean install of studio and event tries to add Mainconcept and Panasonic DV Codec, I also updated the Studio to the latest versions.

Can someone help me out please ???!!??!?!?!?

Thanks,

Hi,

I am fairly new at this myself. But I will try to help. I think you may want to render to an AVI coming out of Pinnacle 8, and encode the AVI to mpeg2 with Procoder. Perhaps back to DV is not what Studio 8 is good at. I capture with the ADVC-100 to Studio 8, and render to avi and encode with Procoder. I am just stuck at the authoring part, and don't know what software to use, or how to use it. And I will be burning with Nero 6. Perhaps you can help me with the authoring part....hahahah

Jeff

[proxyx99]

DV Avi quality should be exactly the same if you save it to this format.
Choosing different format will affect quality if the bitrate/format is higher on the compression ladder.

Keep in mind that most PC's will have huge problems with smooth TV like playback because this format is normally interlaced thus optimized for TV (analog) display. Therefore, I think you have a local screen rendering issues rather then encoding. Best test is to save both, take small fragments from both and encode to mpeg dvd. Watch it. If mpeg's look alike the ansewr is obvious. If not, read further ->

If your drop in quality is so significant then try another DV codec/encoder for a moment. I encoded with MC, tested and then went back to Pinnacle/MS default. I like it a lot due to its very good quality, no better no worse that MC DV. There was one benefit to this though. This procedure has somehow reset DV encoder and it works better then ever. Do not judge its quality by your PC picture only, as DV will always look crappy.