Capturing Video

[AL BE]

I captured a home movie through my hauppauge 150 from a vcr. In mpeg2 format I can play it me computer and the qaulity is good, but as soon as I edit it using adobe premiere elements 2.0 and burn it to a dvd to the quality is terrible, its really pixelated with random colors all over. I also tried avi format and it was worse. Any sugestains on how to get at least decent quality video would be appreciated?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: AL BE
I captured a home movie through my hauppauge 150 from a vcr. In mpeg2 format I can play it me computer and the qaulity is good, but as soon as I edit it using adobe premiere elements 2.0 and burn it to a dvd to the quality is terrible, its really pixelated with random colors all over. I also tried avi format and it was worse. Any sugestains on how to get at least decent quality video would be appreciated?

Premiere has to be screwing something up -- maybe a bad codec in the mix? Or you've got it set to uber-low quality somewhere?

DVDs use MPEG2, so you shouldn't have to recode the file at all as long as you record at 720x480 and the bitrate is less than ~9Mbps. Although I don't know if Premiere (and/or Premiere Elements) can be used as a non-recoding MPEG2 editor.

 

[AL BE]

I just found away to export it without re-encoding it and the quailty is a lot better. thanks.

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: AL BE
I just found away to export it without re-encoding it and the quailty is a lot better. thanks.

How did you do it?

Thanks,

Bud

 

[AL BE]

go to file>export>mpeg
the only problems is that it takes the meus out
I am still trying to figure out the best way.