Want to rip, edit, compile Music Video compilation...

[Jonodan]

Hey folks... I am SLOWLY learning the DVD basics but need some assistance... I have a variety of music videos recorded onto DVD-R's via a Panasonic DVD-R standalone (recorded from cable TV usually as 1 big 2-hour "SP" speed track).

I rip these disks to my hard drive using DVD-DeCryptor. To extract and edit the needed videos, I convert the VOB files to AVI using FlaskMPEG. I can then edit the videos I want (using ULEAD MovieFactory), and save the results as MPEG files, and burn them into a compilation DVD.

My problem is there is a bit of "trailing" (a blurring of image) in the recorded images where the picture does not appear to be as clear and distinct as the original.

Could anyone guide me as to what I could do to improve the final image quality? It may be obvious to you all, but I am still learning...


Thanks alot folks for any light you can shed on this...

[echooff]

Why encode to avi. Every time you re-encode you will lose quality. Try this: rip the dvd as audio and video streams using dvd decrypter. Use tmpg DvdAuthor to select only the scenes you want. Add whatever else you want, author new and burn. You can use ReJig to reduce the m2v size prior to authoring if dvdauthor shows it is oversize.

Tmpg Dvdauthor comes as a 30 day fully functional trial from Pegasys. ReJig is freeware made by Nic. You can find a download link in the forum. Dvd decrypter is also freeware. You can find a link on doom9's download area.

[Hiro2k]

You can also try to compress the original movie to an Uncompressed Video Codec. Right now there is a new interesting one CorePNG (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64139)
But if you don't want to mess with that, then there is the old and proven Huffy Codec. Once you have that uncompressed AVI, you can edit the movie without losing quality.