To Big?

[cthomas]

I captured a VHS tape using Pinnacle Studio 9 and it saved it as an 4.7GB .mpg file. I then brough this into Adobe Premiere Pro and exported it as a Microsoft DV AVI using the default settings. This of coures made a 26GB .avi. I then used Adobe Encore to make a DVD image 4.33GB.

Next I used DVD Decrypter to burn this to a DVD RW. When I played this on my DVD connected to my TV the picture was a little jercky. I don't know if this was because it was put on a RW DVD or Encore had to do to much compression (26GB to 4.33).

Does any body have any ideas or suggestions?

[donpedro]

What is your bitrate ? Some DVD Players might have trouble with higher rates.

[northcat_8]

When you captured it, why not capture to AVI? The fewer convesions the better the picture quality...this could be your cause.

I am not familiar with Studio 9, but I have studio 8 (it ONLY captures to AVI)...in any event, you already have it in Studio 9, why not save it as an AVI then? or as MPEG-2?

[junkmalle]

Why don't you simplify your life and make your DVD right from Studio? And capture in MPG at a slightly lower bitrate so it will fit on a DVD. That way you won't have to go through any conversions (unless you are touching up the video) where you will lose quality.

And since you're capturing from VHS you can use 352x480 rather than 720x480 since VHS has such low resolution to start.

[cthomas]

Thanks for the suggestions. I was just using the default settings in Studio9. And when I tried to burn to DVD it said it was too big.

Last night I was just playing around and tried this.

What a difference!

I opened the .mpg backup in Studio9 and removes some frames and the resaved it as a .mpg I then imported this .mpg into Vegas Video 3.0 and exported it as an .avi (1.67GB). I used the default settings.

I then imported this same .mpg into Premiere Pro and exported it as a Microsoft DV AVI using the default settings. And got a 23.8GB .avi. What a hugh difference.

Why would I get such hugh difference?

Carl

[donpedro]

Sorry to tell you this cthomas, but it seems based on your posts that you need to do a lot of reading before you continue in your tasks.

You are doing too many unnecessary steps/conversions. You are missing basics. Maybe somebody here will tutor you (I don't have time now).

[junkmalle]

You are doing way too much work!

From Stutio (I have version 8, but 9 is probably the same) select Capture Format from the Setup menu. On that dialog you probably have the Presets set to "MPEG", "High Quality (DVD)". Change it from "High Quality DVD" to Custom. Then go down to the bottom of the window and change "Kbits/sec" from 6000 to maybe 5500. That will make your resulting MPG file a little smaller. After capturing you can take the file straight to DVD without all those conversions you were doing.