Poor quality

When I burn a dvd with Nerovision 3 how come the quality turn out terrible?
It's only one movie wich is about 3,5 GB.
But also when I put two different movies on one dvd
I want to reduce the quality because else the two movies don't go
on one dvd. But then the quality is as poor as when I put one movie on
dvd.
Should I use any other burning software? ( I've already tried UleadDvd but then
one movie is more then 4 GB! )

What is the original source?

Sorry, but what do you mean with 'original source'?
You mean the movie file?

Is it an original DVD or a Divx/xvid file?

Originally Posted by Flying Doctor

When I burn a dvd with Nerovision 3 how come the quality turn out terrible?

NeroVision isn't the best encoder out there. In the scheme of things, most people in the know wouldn't even rate it as serviceable. IMHO you'd be better off learning how to use TMPGEnc, CCE, MainConcept or even ConvertxtoDVD if one-click wonders are your game.

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimaalenko/AVI2DVD.htm is a guide for using TMPGEnc Plus. There are other guides for the other softwares listed in the guides section to your right.

Originally Posted by steveryan

Is it an original DVD or a Divx/xvid file?

The movies are in DivX format.

You need to learn about FitCD, avisynth filters, bitrates and encoding. Then you have half a chance of getting a half decent conversion. If you just want to trust your luck to software, use ConvertXtoDVD and put one to a disc.

Best solution for Divx/Xvid source - get a player capable of playing back Divx/Xvid encoded movies, and put 6 movies on a single DVD as data.

Originally Posted by guns1inger

Best solution for Divx/Xvid source - get a player capable of playing back Divx/Xvid encoded movies, and put 6 movies on a single DVD as data.

Yes, but I need to play the dvd on a dvd-player. And ( if I make a dvd I try to do it perfect ) with a menu. When I burn a datadisc there is no menu. ( At least not as I want to )

So, you prefer lots of work, big quality loss and a menu to your liking, to no work, no quality loss and a simple menu/file selector?
I'm with Guns1inger.

/Mats

Oke thanx! I'm going to try that

The movies are converted to almost perfect quality, but when I burn with NeroVision it becomes poor quality again! ( On the dvd! )

So instead of NeroVision I should use IMGBurn? Can I create my own menu's in IMGBurn?
Oh and how do I turn of the reencoding program in NeroVision?

Oke thanks! I am going to try TMPGenc dvdauthor right now!

How do I invert my own background image?
And what is the best way to convert my videos? So TMPGEnc. is able to burn them?
Ow and, how do I burn to a dvd with TMPGEnc.?

tmpgenc doesnt burn - it is an encoding app

Right thanks! ( And I meant TMPGEnc DVDAuthor in my previous post )
But how do I invert my own background image? If I know that I can go
burning dvd's all day... :P

What do you mean by invert? Turn upside down? Swap colors?
Anyway, that's hardly anything you'd expect the authoring app to do for you - do it in your graphics app before loading it into TDA.
...or do you mean insert?

/Mats

To make a long story short, from my point of view, and alot of others, NeroVision 3 is NOT a true MPEG-2 encoder. And if you have content such as DivX or Xvid it should be converted into an MPEG-2 DVD compliant format before burning onto DVD, but don't use NV3 for that.

I use NV3 all the time for menus, and the final burn, and it's great for that, but my video has been properly encoded to MPEG-2 DVD compliant format BEFORE i load it into NV3.

The developers of NV3 made it an authoring software, but didn't focus on its encoding capabilities.

As well, in the More-->Video Options, enable "SmartEncoding" in NV3, as well as "Automatic" for alot of other features and of course "Fast Encoding (1-pass)" for Encoding mode. This way, if you have DVD compliant MPEG-2 material loaded into NV3, it will do minimal transcoding and should retain the quality on the final disc.

Think of a true MPEG-2 encoder as an awesome chef in a restaurant, and NV3 as your snazzy marketing consultant. Both will be great at what they do but will suck at reverse roles.

Then again, get a DivX certified player at Wal-Mart for under $50 and save yourself tons of headaches in the long run.

NV3 (and any real authoring tool) should not transcode compliant material at all. Any transcoding, even "minimal transcoding" is completely unacceptable. NV3 is not great at any of what it does. It is adequate in a small number of circumstances, but completely worthless for authoring material you have already correctly encoded.

Okay, so if I convert my DivX movie to MPEG2 ( with for example WinAvi ) and then open it in NV3 and then turn of the 'Smartencoding' etc. the quality remains good?
( Just checking :P )

Oh God. From NeroVision to WinAVI. It's like crawling out of the toilet bowl and into the sewer. WinAVI is known to produce non-compliant output. if you use WinAVI for your encoding then obviously quality isn't that high on your list.

Yes it is!
What videoconverter do you use then?

Originally Posted by mats.hogberg

What do you mean by invert? Turn upside down? Swap colors?
Anyway, that's hardly anything you'd expect the authoring app to do for you - do it in your graphics app before loading it into TDA.
...or do you mean insert?

/Mats

I did mean Insert...sorry!

FitCD, avisynth and ProCoder, however you could use HCEnc to keep your costs at $0. You also need to use and understand a bitrate calculator, virtualdubmod and ffmpeggui so you can extract and convert audio where necessary. (I actually use Sound Forge for my audio conversion, but ffmpeggui will convert to 2.0 AC3 for $0). With the right combination of filters in your script, the results will be much better than anything WinAVI/Nerovision can ever produce. Of course, it takes longer, but quality always does.

I did turn off the smartencoding and choosed Fast Encoding (1-Pass ) but NV3 keeps encoding!!!!!!!!!!!