SVCD - Quality problems

[Henrik99]

Hi!

I use Pinnacle Studio DV plus to capture video from a digital video recorder. Then i export the movie to an “SVCD-Compatible” MPEG-file. Then i use Nero Burning Rom to make an SVCD that i play in my standalone dvd-player.

The result is not good. Especialy movies taken outdoors. Persons and objects that are still is fairly sharp but when someone moves a rough compression (big pixels) is shown. The movie is just as bad if i look at it directly on the computer.

Movies taken indoors is much better.

Wath can be wrong? What should i do?

Please Help!

[revjake]

Offhand, I'd say the problem is that you're using what's arguably the worst MPEG compressor in the world---Nero.

Use TMPG, or even better, CCE.

[Mirror_Image]

Nero is a superb burn app, but encode with TMPGEnc.

[Roadwart]

Henrik, The problem is with the pinnacle software. Once you have edited the file, save it as an AVI rather than MPG. As it`ll save in in DV format, you won`t enormous amounts of disk space. Then just encode the file in TMPGEnc using the SVCD template.

[revjake]

My mistake... I thought he was *encoding* with Nero.

Yeah, the guys above me are right.

[Henrik99]

Hi!

Thanks for your advice. I tried to save the file in AVI-format from Studio and then encode it in TMPG and burn it with Nero. But i still get crapy results. Any other ideas?

Grateful for help - Henrik