High quality play back mode is disabled with current project

brayspeed · Post by **brayspeed** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:17 pm

Hi

Have been using VS10+ for a while now and all of a sudden my prodjects wont play in high quality, they did before and i wonder if something might have changed them as i recently added Avid Liquid to my editing collection,

any help would be nice, thanks

Tony

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:24 pm

Check your Project Properties to see if they are NTSC DVD, or I guess PAL DVD. For some reason VS will not allow HQ playback with this setting. All you need to do is change it from the NTSC DVD to MPEG-2.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:15 am

Hi Ron

Thanks for the info.

I do not normally use High Quality Playback, but was aware of the problem.

It does appear to be the same for Pal-Dvd
Yes---changing the properties to Mpeg 2 cures the problem.

Regards Trevor

brayspeed · Post by **brayspeed** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:00 pm

will changing to mpeg 2 so i can view it at high quality change the final output (pal dvd)

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:05 am

No it shouldn't, however view the properties of the DVD project settings. Pay attention to the Frame size, Bitrate, and audio. When you change it from the NTSC or PAL DVD to MPEG-2, the only change I noticed testing this, using an DVD compliant MPEG-2 I had created, was the audio switched to LPCM.

If anything changes when you change it to MPEG-2, when you are ready to create your video file, or create disc, just go into the Options and change it back to NTSC or PAL DVD. You really shouldn't have to do that, if all the properties are kept the same, because they should be DVD compliant. However you may wish to use Dolby 5.1 or AC-3, instead.