Loss Of DV quality when writing a DVD/SVCD

I am having great results capuring my DV from Camcorder and assembling my movie however, when I write it to disk it comes out with pixel artifacts and just plan bad video. I am runing a TRV-22 w/ firewire in 2.66 P4 machine with 120gig hard drive. What should I do.

 

What programme are you using to edit and render the movie?

 

Which program is best? And with what settings?

 

I use Pinnacle Studio 8 which does a good job of capturing and rendering. You can get it with or without a firewire card.

 

I have tried pinnacle 8 and I do not like it. It is easy to use, but it locks itself up way to often. Premiere never does.

I had a 1200mhz Celleron with 256 RAM and I thought that was it. I have a P4 2.4ghz with 512 Ram now and it does the same thing.

Also a friend of mine also says his does the same way.

Do I need to leave Pinnacle alone or is there a fix.

I did a photo presentation on it and it locked up every 5 minutes. I thought it would work better with still images.

 

I have only ever had it freeze up after uploading video in Mpeg format rather than in full DV quality. It is a pain I know when it does that and as far as I know there are no fixes. I don't get any problems with still images though so I can create a slideshow without any problems. Make sure that in properties the compatibility is set acurately. As far as rendering is concerned can you not just download your completed movie to Studio 8 and then just render it - I never have any problems with authoring the finished product to disc (or file).

 

Mine does it to the point I could say "Constantly".

When I go to Compatability in properties, it doesn't list XP to pick from. Only 95, 98/ME, NT, and 2000.

 

Xp is based on 2000 so you should select that. Have you got the latest version of direct x on your system?

 

What options are you using to render the mpeg?
I don't use Pinnacle so I can't comment on that.
I use Vegas Video and DVD Architect, which produce perfect results.
There are many options that shouldn't need changing from the default but may be set up wrong.
For instance DV is bottom field first and if you have this set to top field first then it will come out badly.
If you are de-interlacing when you don't need to this will also affect it.
Lastly the rendering capabilities of Pinnacle may not be up to much or it may be set to a low quality. You could render the AVI in TMPEG or CCE for better quality.