bad quality with dvdmaestro

[gantengx]

hi guys...

i'm still very new to movie editing/dvd authoring/etc...
i got some problem with my dvdmaestro, i convert my movie to mpeg2 movie (DVD PAL), then i use dvdmaestro to author my dvd, but the result is worse from my original mpeg2 movie...why is it like that?

does the dvdmaestro do the encoding again? but if it does why do it needs to encode while i have to encode my movies to mpeg2 before i use it at dvdmaestro?

anyone know how to fix this?

thanks a lot guys...

[Matthew]

DVDMaestro may re-encode your menu stills, but that's about it.

If the quality of the video is poor, DVDMaestro is not the source of the problem.

[gantengx]

is it?

i encode my mpeg2 files with canopus procoder 1, and the quality is fine until i convert to dvd with dvd maestro... so it should be dvd maestro problem....any suggestion how to fix this?

[Matthew]

DVDMaestro takes the video stream and multiplexes it. It does not reduce the quality of the video. You can extract it out and remux as many times as you like without any loss of quality.

But if it makes you feel better, please continue banging your head against a brick wall.

[gantengx]

DVDMaestro takes the video stream and multiplexes it. It does not reduce the quality of the video. You can extract it out and remux as many times as you like without any loss of quality.

But if it makes you feel better, please continue banging your head against a brick wall.


thanks

[Arky]

Perhaps it would be constructive for you to post a detailed description of the manner in which you feel the MPEG2 material has been 'degraded' -

What visual anomalies do you see in the multiplexed output?

What are you using to playback your multiplexed output?

This may well be a playback, rather than a content, issue.


Arky ;o)

[lucindrea]

you may also want to double check that your not changing the aspect .. a change in aspect could make the video look "changed" or degraded

[gantengx]

nah... it's just my stupid windows media player, i played with powerdvd it looks great...just stupid media player... hehehe


thanks anyway :)

[hendrix]

never QC on a computer monitor.

a couple of weeks ago i authored a promo DVD for Disney and the producer came back complaining that the picture didn't look right...he complained that "the lines look jaggy"...i did a quick check on a broadcast monitor with the Post Production Manager and we both agreed that it looked fine...i found out that the producer was QCing the DVDs on his laptop...i told him to "never CQ on a pc...CQ on a CRT then come back if you're still NOT satisfied". the last i heard was the DVD was being pressed at Toshiba.

I used CCE SP, Scenarist Pro 2.7 and Vegas 6 w/L3 Ultramaximizer for audio sweetening.

[gantengx]

hm... i used cce sp before, and i found out FreeEnc is better...i don't know it's my opinion but i found FreeEnc is faster than Procoder and the quality is better than cce sp... it's good alternative i think, and it's free hehehe...

[hendrix]

what were your sources? I usually handle IMX, Digital Betacam tapes, or Uncompressed quicktime files exported from Avid DS Nitris.

trust me...with proper tweaking and a clean source (not DV) you can't beat CCE.

[gantengx]

is it? erm...actually my source is from my digicam sony dscp100, but the quality is great though, mpeg1 10,000kbps 30fps, size is very big but quality is very good.

last time i tried to convert one of my movie with cce sp, and the result actually is quite bad.. idont know what i did wrong and it's not that fast as i think, i think freeenc is just almost the same speed...i dunno... hehehe..

cce is too expensive though :p have you try FreeEnc yet? i think you should try it it's pretty good for me =p

[hendrix]

just tested it out...didn't like the fact that youre only limited to .avs scripts, that you can't change the GOP sequence from Long GOP to all I Frames, no manual I Frame input, impossible to author for multi-angle DVDs...sorry man CCE is way better.

FreeEnc may be good enough if your shrinking a DVD from a 9 to a 5 but NOT for mastering.

if your source is mpeg1 then i can see why the quality was quite bad - you should try a higher quality source, FreeEnc was faster than real-time but not as fast as CCE.

[gantengx]

ow...i didnt know about that..hehehe....i'm quite new to this stuff actually =D

btw my mpeg1 source is the best quality my camera can handle already...so cant do nothing about it =( hehehehe

[hendrix]

remember when encoding to mpeg2 from mpeg1...youre going from a highly compressed format to another highly compressed format

[gantengx]

oh hendrix, btw, my mpeg 1 source is all i frame... is it good or bad?

[hendrix]

all I Frames is good...it means your footage can be edited with frame accuracy...but mpeg1 is still not the method of choice for a mastering format...just wondering what resolution is it?

[gantengx]

mine is 640x480..it's not bad actually and it's 30fps compared to movie from other digicam i think mine is really good..but the size is very big coz its around 10000kbps i think or 9000kbps i forgot already hehehehe

[lucindrea]

10mps is the max for dvd , so i'm guess 9 is closer to what you got .. well unless you have 0 sound heh

[hendrix]

10mps is the max for dvd , so i'm guess 9 is closer to what you got .. well unless you have 0 sound heh
gantengx is talking about the bitrate and format the camera records at - nothing to do with the max bitrate for DVDs.