Ulead VideoStudio 8 Question.

[SilentButDeadly]

I have made a 18 minute presentation with this program, and will be burning this to a bunch of DVD's. The question is though, why does the quality go down so much when I preview the presentation? When I burned it to SVCD it still went down in quality. Will this happen when I burn to a DVD?

 

[SilentButDeadly]

Anyone know?

 

[StormRider]

I think it depends on the source material and whether or not VideoStudio 8 has to re-encode. I used to have a Dazzle hardware Mpeg2 encoder and the quality was excellent. However, when I tried to burn the material to DVD, the quality went down because the software program re-encoded the material (I think it's because the Dazzle card produced non-compliant DVD mpeg2 files or something).

Later I got the Hauppauge WinTV PVR250 and my software doesn't re-encode the video so the quality stays really good.

You could probably adjust some quality settings in VideoStudio 8 that might help the final output quality look better....

 

[StormRider]

If your original source material is DVD quality MPEG2 and you burned it to a SVCD, then VideoStudio8 reduced the quality to fit SVCD resolutions -- that's probably why it looked bad. It should look better when burning to DVD (but I would try it out on a DVD-RW/+RW to make sure). I don't know why previewing the material would look bad, I never noticed that in VideoStudio 7.

 

[SilentButDeadly]

I will start trying some of this stuff outin a little bit, but I have some stuff at the end I have to finish editing. I may go by the store in just a minute to pick up a DVD-RW because I only have a bunch of DVD-R's right now. Thanks for the information, also this presentation is mostly composed of pictures just fyi. Thans again.

 

[alkemyst]

CD video gets converted to VHS resolution. With compression this really creates artifacts.

We did a CSI type presentation for one of our quarterly meetings to introduce the IS department. Quality on DVD was excellent....most had no idea with a $100 program and a few nights after work we could pull it off (none of us had PC video experience).

I am willing to bet a lot of 'pros' are way overpaid