I have successfully utilized UNLEAD DVD to compile my Smallville episodes into dvd format, then used DVD SHRINK to compress, and finally clone DVD2 to burn onto a FUJIFILM DVD-R. How do I improve the picture quality to what a dvd should look like. Also the sound skips in and out.
you cant get the files to look any better than they do watching them on your PC, you can set a higher bitrate but that will only help so much. If on the original files the sound doesnt skip then it will be in either your transcoding to DVD formmat stage or more than likely in the burning stage, how fast are you burning your discs at? im not to sure about fujifilm what are there media ID?
What type of capture card do you have? I use PowerColor Theater 550 PRO! I can put reg cable and HD Cable thru it and it does improve the picture. it has a 12-bit Video Eng, hardware MPEG2 encoding, 16MB DDR Memory
Well, as far as picture quality is concerned, why are you compressing? If you are making your own DVDs, then you should not add so many files as to cause your final DVD to exceed the capacity of the disc. Now, I know that that will be hard....for example, you add three episodes, and you still have room, but you add that last one and now you are over capacity. This is fine, and the compression will be slight and not enough to cause much degradation in your overall DVD. If, however, you just continue adding say one or two more episodes, then you will lose more quality in your over all product and may be unwatchable to you. Dennis
Using DVD Shrink to cram episodes on is WRONG. You should create your shows to fit right out of the conversion app. For instance three 44min episodes is 132 mins. Using a bitrate calculator you can easily see that for that time to fit on DVD the bitrate you use in the encoder should be 4489kbit/s. Four episodes is 176min, or a bitrate of 3334 to fit them on the disc. Now when these eps are ready, they can be put onto a DVD straight away without this extra step of shrinking the crap out of them and ruining whatever picture quality you've got.
-(Andrew) Are their any type of programs that you can run the video check through to see how well before and after the conversion went? To clarify - after d/ling, extracting, once you convert the format into dvd compilation is their a program that you can run before conversion and after conversion to see how well the video still is? So that you can narrow down if its the conversion or the burning thats causing poor audio and quality? A program designed like DVDInfoPro w/ the scan and PI/PIF tests? thanks!
Thanks for the assistance. I tried reducing the amount of seperate episodes that go on each DVD and received the same end result. The files originally play with perfect picture and sound on my CPU. The quality is DVD movie quality before all the process. Afterwards it's VCD quality. I did however stop the skipping of the sound through a exstnsive process of ellimination. I changed out DVD players and fiber optic cabling. As far as why shrink them? I want to use the same princible as having a box set of a DVD television series. I should be able to create them in the same aspect of a DVD BOX SET. Reivax
Then Switch to dubblesided DVD'S DVD-9 Will hold dubble the amount of data. then you need a DVD plyer that can play a DVD-9 DVD'S. Also upgrade your capture card. Like the ATI Theater 550 PRO capture card eather PCI-E or PCI.
