I just can't figure out the poblem. Somebody please help me. I captured video from my DV camcorder via my 1394 cable plugged into my Turtle Beach ADX card. The video captured looked good during preview capture. I captured the same video twice. Once as an uncompressed AVI file and the other as MPEG. (end result was the same with both) I then imported the captured video into PowerDirector 3 and was able to add music, titles, special effeccts and other stuff. The video looks okay while I was worked my project. Next, I used PowerProducer to render and make the movie. I had problems during the process like hang ups, but was able to complete the disc burning. Here is where I got lost. The completed disc played in my home DVD player. The menu worked, the music and sound was good and the video resolution was crap. The movie quality was blocky looking and didn't look anything like the quality as played in the camcorder LCD display. I don't expect my finished product to look like it did on the camcorder display. Like I said, the finished DVD resolution was poor. Where did I go wrong?
My only guess would be that the program you use to burn from hard disk to dvd auto transcodes the video file to fit on the disc if it is to large. For example, on DIsc the video takes up 5.6 gigs it would compress it to fit on a 4 gb disc. At least thats an option on nero, it asks you if you want to make it fit on disc, thus reducing quality.
Thanks for the reply and I wish that was the case. The home movie of a birthday party I burned to disc was no more than 14 minutes. There was plenty of space on the disc so no compression or transcoding was needed. What format and settings do you suggest I use for the capture and then to burn. I'm thinking my settings selections are wrong. Thanks again.
