Pioneer A06 - Creating movie DVDs

[LuDaCriS66]

I just got my Pioneer A06 last night and I tried making a movie DVD out of an AVI file that I captured from a friend's Mini-DV camera. Using the included software, Ulead's DVD MovieFactory that came with the burner, I burned the 4.1GB file onto a DVD-RW (which in turn is compressed to a 1.1GB file.. taking up 19mins on the DVD)...

Well, I played back the DVD on my laptop to see how good it looked.. and the video quality was taken down quite a bit. It definately didn't look as good as it did in the raw avi format.

Isn't there a way to burn it to DVD without losing video quality ... or does it not matter on TVs and standalone dvd players?

 

[CZroe]

Hmm, with that much extra space I'd assume you could use a professional program to encode your movie and get no perceptible quality loss at 4.3GB MPEG2. I don't ever do this, but I'm sure something like Flask MPEG can create a raw file from the avi using the decoder and encode it to a very-high "bitrate" MPEG2 file for a DVD authoring application. I remember how EZ CD creator would BUTCHER any MPEG1 video files when making MPEG1 VCDs. It made them look like crap by converting for no reason!

Oh, and isn't this a software question? 😉

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Originally posted by: CZroe
Hmm, with that much extra space I'd assume you could use a professional program to encode your movie and get no perceptible quality loss at 4.3GB MPEG2. I don't ever do this, but I'm sure something like Flask MPEG can create a raw file from the avi using the decoder and encode it to a very-high "bitrate" MPEG2 file for a DVD authoring application. I remember how EZ CD creator would BUTCHER any MPEG1 video files when making MPEG1 VCDs. It made them look like crap by converting for no reason!

Hmm, I could definately try converting to MPEG2 prior to burning... I didn't even think of that .. 😱
I didn't think it worked in the way VCD's do