[Avoiding the Traitor]

Just bought new one few week - Went to Wright's Rock and did some recording. So have edited on the computer and the quality of the movies is not that great.

How to improve the quality of the movies?

[Bubba]

What software are you using to do the editing, and how are you exporting the final movie?

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Currently I'm using Ulead Videostudio and I do everything from that software and write the VCD from Nero Burner.

[Bubba]

I don't know anything about creating VCDs but you might want to look at dvdrhelp and mediaForums.net.

[Bubba]

To do the vids on this site, I do the following:

• capture from tape using Premiere (I'm sure Ulead will do the same job)
• do all editing in premiere
• export movie to a .mov (quicktime) with no compression at all
• import .mov into Sorenson Squeeze for Flash
• compress/resize and output to a .flv file
• import into flash MX and add the titles/video control bar/etc
• export from Flash to a .swf file

If you're doing VCDs then I'd imagine you wouldn't have to bother with compression so should get really good quality results. Maybe check your outpug/export settings?

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Check the output from my camera?

Can the quality improve if I change the camera setting to high quality?

[Bubba]

No, I mean check the output settings from Ulead Studio. I've only used it very briefly so can't advise exactly what to do, but if you're exporting from Premiere it applies compression as default, so you have to manually turn it off the first time you export.

If there's a quality setting on the camera, then yes, always use the highest settings there are, but not sure if that applies to DV-cams, it doesn't on mine, the only quality settings are to effect stills, and they're crap anyway, so I don't use it for stills.

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Been trying to find the quality setting menu and seem nothing!

What make is your's?

Mine is Sony DCR-TRV18E

[Bubba]

Sony DCR-PC9E - no settings that effect the video though. Also, see if there's something in Ulead settings for  your exact camera model.

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Cool - love the camera tho!!

Will check the info from Ulead and also ask on CT as well.

[Bubba]

Yeah, Sony kit rocks - I love Sony stuff.

I've just read your thread on CT



Ha ha ha!!

Anyway, this image definitely looks heavily compressed / optimised or whatever.

Somewhere in the process when you save or export your final edited movie there will be a dialoge for compression / format. You need to select the right format  - ie VCD and also make sure that when you're burning to cd-rom, you use the VCD option in your burning software.

Have a look at this page on the Ulead site for more detail.

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Cheer for the link. It do make senses.

Glad u liked the picture - Won the fancy dress comp for "Celebrity look alike"!

Oh well at the end of the night I did turned into true ozzy style and got meself wasted!

[Bubba]

I just hope you don't snog your dog the way he does - ewww!

[Avoiding the Traitor]

Not that tho!  :shock:

[fatdoc]

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:28 pm    Post subject:    

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Been trying to find the quality setting menu and seem nothing!

What make is your's?

Mine is Sony DCR-TRV18E

Is it chipped then? i have has TONs of hassle with the same camera and software.... if you get it chipped then you can DV out and then save it all on a tape. i have burned tons of VCDs with various compressions and codec fiddling - not as interesing as it sounds - and the bugger still looks shite.
dont but the gizmo patch devices you can get, they're shite....basically I gave up and will soon get  a DVD burner and export it all in full res to the DVD....!