Loosing quality after rendering in MediaStudio

[Narco_Toothis]

I've learned tons just reading other peoples advice on here but have run into a wall on this one.

My problem is this. I captured an old VHS video using an S-Video connection. captured a V-Bitrate 7000 and the "raw" footage looks as good as the original. When I bring it into Mediastudio 7, do my stuff to it and go to create my file, my finished product comes out lower quality, mainly more blurry. I made sure I matched the format (MPEG 2) and didn't change the bitrate. I've tried 2 pass encoding, no de-interlace, and a 100 other suggestions I found on here. I'm sure the answer is somewhere here.

[Richard_G]

When you get to the Create Video stage, make sure that Use Smartrender is checked. Only anything that has changed during your editing (transistions, titles, etc) will be re-encoded, the rest will be untouched so the quality cannot change.