Posted by PTravel on 10/14/05 04:27

"jazu" <nospam> wrote in message news:11krn5pqoj2nedd@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi
> To burn my 1st DVD I used WinDVD Creator.
> I setup all for high quality encoding.
> I'm a little disappointed with picture quality. Playing tape from
camcorder
> to TV, I'm getting this typical for magnetic camcorder, clear and crisp
> picture. When I play burned DVD, picture looks something like 70s movie
made
> on film tape. Whatever is useful sometime to achieve film look picture. (I
> bet there are some professional terms to name those pic qualities)
> What better programs should I use, to get as good picture as playing it
> directly from the tape? Perhaps it is impossible.
> cheers
>
> PS
> sorry for my stiff english:) ESL
> I believe in near future, I will have lot of question to the groupies.

The quality of video burned to a DVD depends on the conversion to mpeg2
(called transcoding). The process of transcoding to mpeg2 involves
analyzing the content of the video and compressing it. Mpeg2 is a "lossy"
compression format -- some video information gets thrown away when mpeg2
video is created.

Some programs are better are deciding which information can be thrown away
without losing video quality. Unfortunately, the higher the quality of the
resulting mpeg2, the longer it takes to transcode.

I'm not familiar with WinDVD Creator. There are, however, a number of
programs that can produce very high-quality DVDs. I use an inexpensive
program called Tmpgenc. All it does is transcode to mpeg2. I use a
different program to format he video for DVD, and yet a different program to
burn the DVD. The DVDs that I produce are about as good as can be made
using consumer software. Though Tmpgenc produces very high quality mpeg2
transcodes, it is very slow. On my 3 GHz Pentium P4 computer, it can 12 to
24 hours to transcode 2 hours of video. However, that is the trade-off:
"quick and easy" results in poorer quality, slow and involved results in
higher quality.

Good luck!

(And your English is very good).


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