CREATING VIDEO FILE - QUALITY - VS10+

[INKMAN]

I just finished editing my first VS10+ movie and I am disappointed in the quality. This is an old (1996) Hi-8 video run through my Panasonic GS 200 onto mini cassette and then captured by VS10+ using DV. I captured and edited before finding the forums because I did not expect problems using DV with no changes to properties from those in the update. Having found the forum, I set my project and burn properties (I think) as recommended. I then created a new video file which does not have the shakes of my first file but the quality is still inferior to what I get on my editing screen (I have never been able to burn to DVD even using the recommendations from the forum using VS10+. I only managed to burn a DVD by loading the videofile on VS9, the same program that produced my other videos and this is the poor quality DVD I am guessing might be due to a poor rendering of the videofile by VS10+). Although the original video quality is not like my current Panasonic, I have compared to earlier (1990, 1992, 1993) done with VS9 and it does not measure up.
Also the titles I have added, I would think, should be clear even if the captured video is poor and in places the titles are very poor quality.
In places (eg.where birds are flying, the video get pixilated (?) and I don't see this on the VS10+ editing screen (usually I find the editing screen is not of particularly high quality).

I could say more but I'll stop here. I have used VS 5, 8 and 9 previously with reasonable success but I am not especially computer literate or knowledgeable about movie making as many on this forum are. I have invested 3 weeks in editing and hope I don't have to start over using VS9. Any advice would be appreciated.

[maddrummer3301]

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[INKMAN]

Thanks maddrummer, I tried burning my video file using variable 8,000 instead of 1,800 with nothing on the timeline and it burned in only a few minutes. But I still have the quality problems discussed and the video file I rendered seems to have a lower quality than the clips I edited to create the movie. Something else I did not mention re: low quality is that there seems to be a dirty fog over the video on the TV screen and preview screen at times that, again, I don't see on the clips I edited or on the original tape on my (small) camcorder screen.

Maybe I should ask more specific questions:

Can there be problems when VS 10+ renders the video file? (Maybe I should try to capture a few of the worst scenes on VS9 burn and compare them?)

Can I improve my capturing quality (with VS 9 captures of old and new movies seemed o.k.) or might I have done something wrong in VS 10+ when capturing that I did not realize since I used the properties that were default when I updated to VS10+

I can now burn my movies. I will try a short sample of a movie made a few months ago using VS10+ to see if I have quality problems with it before I do another complete movie.

These are the only things I can think of to try but someone might have better suggestions.

[TDK1044]

Hi Inkman,

The rule of three applies here. You must capture, render and burn with identical properties. The higher the quality of your captured file, the higher the quality of your end result. If your settings are not right at the capture stage, everything else you do is negated. Rubbish in..*** out. Follow maddrummer's protocol and you should be fine, and check the propertes of your original captured files by right clicking on them and selecting 'properties'.

[INKMAN]

Thank you, thank you. I have now been able to burn a very good DVD without having to recapture and reedit. The VS 10+ program seems a very good improvement over VS9 once you (with help from this forum) get on to it.
This forum is a terrific idea and I know I will learn a lot more as I spend more time on it. Thanks to all those who make it great.