DMF 4 DVD quality good, DMF 5 plus quality NG

[jgrogersny]

Hello,
I have looked through all of the great advice, etc. on this forum, but I couldn't find any ideas relating to my current problem. I'll try to supply the info from the "read me first" post.

I have been using DMF 4 to create NTSC DVD's for a while with good results. I just upgraded to DMF 5 Plus and now I have a problem. I captured a movie from my Cable service with my Hauppauge Win TV PVR PCI II (26xxx), which does hardware mpeg encoding to my hard drive.

I used the Ad zapper function to find the commercials and removed them from my production and then burned it to CD. I set the MPEG compression to burn MPEG audio, at the highest quality on the slider and checked off Normalize audio. I had to use the "compression" function as the production was a little bigger than the blank DVD+R.

The result was not good. The video and audio have many skips, blocking, and other quality problems. Since I sometimes have created poor DVD's with DMF 4, I created another with DMF 5 with the same settings and the same poor results.

I still have DMF 4 installed, so I redid the job with that. The only difference I can see is that I had to eliminate the commercials by hand with the multi-trim feature. The result was about the same quality I have obtained in the past, not great, but pretty good, considering the source and the compression.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do to obtain the same level of quality with DMF 5 Plus as I get with DMF 4?

Thanks for any advice,
John

[sjj1805]

You need to install Windows XP Service pack 2. It is a system requirement.
http://www.ulead.com/dmf/sysreq.htm