Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/24/06 13:45

<pwilleke@gmail.com> wrote ...

> I was working on a video that I imported from the camera.
> The AVI (2 in fact) looks very good, it is of high quality, even on my
> computer screen.

AVI is only a container metaphor. We don't know what
codec was used by your camera and/or your capture
process? We also don't know what kind of camera you
are talking about? Can we assume it is a real video camera
and not video from your phone or from a still digital camera?
Is it a DV camera? Did you use Firewire to capture, etc?

> Ik cut the file up, added transitions, added music, .... All this with
> Premiere 6.
>
> However, the AVI that I rendered with Premiere looks bad. The quality
> is even worse than VHS.
> Whenever there is a fast moving (or even not so fast) part in the
> movie, the image gets stripes.

> It's like when an arm is moved pieces of teh arm stay behind in the
> movement.
> I don't know how te explain the behaviour in a better way.

Sounds like a problem with interlace and field sequence.
Try reversing the field order.

> Afterwards I converted the AVI to MPG2 with TMPGenc and I wrote it to
> DVD after converting the files to VOB etc....

If we assume that your AVI is from a DV camera,
and the MPG2 is something like what is used for
DVD discs, then by definition MPEG2 will look
worse than DV-AVI because it has a great deal of
video irretrievably compressed out of it.

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