Problems with Ulead Video Studio 6.0

[jelsantos]

Hi !

I'm writing because I have a problem and I can't solve that !
I have contacted Ulead, but they don't answered me.
I already looked for it in vcdhelp.com and nothing !
My problem is that after rendering in Ulead Video Studio 6.0 the final result is very poor (on vcd or svcd) on quality. Some images (statical and not statical) looks "shaking" . And I don't understand why !

Can someone help me ?

Thanks

José Santos

jelsantos@net.sapo.pt

[Spicuzza]

Well, you've not given any information as to what you did. All you've said is..... "My problem is that after rendering in Ulead Video Studio 6.0 the final result is very poor (on vcd or svcd) on quality." Could you be a little more specific?

[jelsantos]

After getting the video of my digital camera and some pictures from a digital camara I put all on the timeline. I had put some transictions and some titles and sound. I selected vcd,svcd,avi and I always get the same result: still pictures "shaking" and some parts of the video too.

Thanks.

José Santos

[Spicuzza]

The problem is your source material not VideoStudio. I don't believe you're going to get very good quality source video out of a digital camera. You do mean "camera" as in photos... and not a digital video camcorder, right?

When we do videos for people with still shots we prefer to scan in 35mm photos rather than use digital photos as we have no way of controlling the quality of the digital photo. It IS what it IS!!

You could try to use your source video as your template that way VideoStudio will not re-render the whole video just the transistions.

What is your source video format?

[jelsantos]

Well, the pictures were taken by a digital camera (not a camcorder).

I tried to use some templates : 720 x 576 on avi;
vcd and svcd compliant;

Note: I captured the video to "avi" file using The Pinacle Express Dv software. When I see the source I can't see no problems.

Thanks,

José Santos

[Tommyknocker]

Have you tried to capture directly into Video Studio?

[Spicuzza]

You're probably extremely limited as to the quality of video you can capture with a digital camera. I'm guessing your going from a small frame size and low kbps to large frame size then editing and re-encoding, none of which will produce very good results. The same goes for the digital pictures, using, for example, a 288 x 192 pic @ 72 dpi in a video 720 x 586 is not going to produce good results.

I can't really offer much help as I don't know of anyone taking video from a digital camera source and producing a video. You probably can't do much with that type of video.

Again, you do mean the video IS NOT from a digital camcorder, but from a digital camera for taking photos, correct?

[jelsantos]

Hi !

The film is from a digital camcorder and the fotos are from a digital camara.
I tried to rendered only the first picture and the problem persists .

Thanks.

José Santos

[Spicuzza]

Jose,

For your Digital Video:
It appears that you are using a frame size of 720 x 576, that's fine as long as your bit rate is at least about 4000 kbps. Trying to render that large of a frame size with insufficent data rate will make the video appear to be "shaking" as you put it. I believe commercially produced DVDs are about 9000 kbps!

For your Digital Photos:
If they are way undersized say 160 x 120 or way oversized like 1600 x 1200, VideoStudio will resize them to fit whatever template you're using.

Either way the result is not good. Now if you can set the Digital Camera to take the photos the same frame size as the video project (or at least something close 640 x 480), and at least 120 dpi you'll eliminate the shaking problem with the photos given sufficient data rate.

Also, there isn't much you can do starting off with a poor quality digital photo.
The pic below was sent to us for inclusion in a video:



Look at the specifications:



It looks bad in it's original form and it's going to look even worse in the MPEG-1 video. Why bother taking a digital photo at 48 dpi? A disposable 35mm camera would have taken a better photo than that!

Anyway I hope this has helped somewhat.

[troyvcd1]

I think you should capture your video in videostudio. Videostudio seems to have some quirk where it likes to do everything and if you mix applications things dont go right. For some reason videostudio captures type A video from a camcorder where every where ive read a camcorder should capture type B. You are probably capturing type B video and then when you put it into videostudio your getting a type missmatch.