Getting terrible quality in DVD Workshop 2.

[vpc410]

I'm trying out the DVD Workshop 2 Trial version and I'm making sure that all quality settings are maxed out, but when I go to create the DVD the quality is bad. I've used uncompressed video and mpeg4 encoded .avi video, but it's not just the video quality that looks bad. The menu itself looks blurry like it's been compressed too much by the software. It looked fine and crisp when editting it. Is this just because it's a trial version. Is the full version better?

[skier-hughes]

Okay, let's try to get a clearer idea of what's happening.

You have imported uncompressed what? avi? This would be a huge file of around 60gb per hour, are you sure it was this?
Mpeg4 avi would be quite qell compressed, so when converting to meg2 for dvd - which I assume is what you are doing?? - would result in poorer quality.

What settings have you used?
Settings which are too high can cause playback problems on dvd players, so it's best not to max them out, but to keep them to 8,000 or below.

You could have a movie which lasts 3 hours and having maxed out the settings - to fit it on a dvd, would lead to a setting which would be highly compressed. So giving accurate and useful info is a help in answering.

What are you viewing it on? tv? pc?

What did you edit with?

What file types where they capturd as?

[vpc410]

I think I fixed my own problems. Yes, it is raw, unconverted .avi video. They are short videos as I'm making video tutorials. But I just used another program to convert the videos into mpeg2 format and it's gotten better. Everything has a slight blurry look to it on the PC, but I'm guessing it might look better once I burn it to a DVD an watch it on the TV.

[skier-hughes]

A pc screen will not show an interlaced image properly, for this you need a tv, so this I should imagine is causing what you describe as a blurry image.
I expect when seen on the tv all will be well.