Picture quality and DVD/CD labels

[damsel]

1.I have noticed that when I edited my movies on my laptop or pc and burned them onto DVD and video the picture quality was much darker than the original movie and it was very squareish as if I had blown up the movies to show the little squares. I dont know how to explain but it just wasnt clear. Why and how can I get good picture quality?

2. I burned my DVD for the first time, and I put a label on the DVD, and the DVD wouldnt play. So I painstakingly took the label off and the DVD plays but the movie kept freezing and cracking up as if you have a bad signal or something. Could the label have caused this? Can u put labels on DVDs while retaining picture quality and play well?
I cant understand it, please help.

[jimmalenko]

Sticky labels can screw up the playback of your DVDR's...

or so this sticky reckons, anyway

[Baldrick]

1. what do you edit with? what do you convert with? what is your source? you must give us more information.

[jyn999]

1.I have noticed that when I edited my movies on my laptop or pc and burned them onto DVD and video the picture quality was much darker than the original movie and it was very squareish as if I had blown up the movies to show the little squares. I dont know how to explain but it just wasnt clear. Why and how can I get good picture quality?

2. I burned my DVD for the first time, and I put a label on the DVD, and the DVD wouldnt play. So I painstakingly took the label off and the DVD plays but the movie kept freezing and cracking up as if you have a bad signal or something. Could the label have caused this? Can u put labels on DVDs while retaining picture quality and play well?
I cant understand it, please help.

1A. My guess is that your encoding bit rate is too low. What programs did you use to rip, edit, encode, and author?

2A. Did you put the label on the right side? Many low cost discs don't have a brand or company name imprinted on the label side.

[jntaylor63]

Use HUB lables:

Cheap. (18.00 for 520 from SureThing)
Safe. (Very little label, center of the disk = no wobble)
Useable (Still have room to print text & Logo or scan the orginal DVD disk art and use as background for HUB label)