New and confused...

delorean8202 · Post by **delorean8202** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:58 pm

Hi, I have my video captured from DV in high-quality avi format, but when I put those clips into the editing time line in VS 11+, or edit a clip in any way, it becomes super-low quality. Please advise!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:03 am

Welcome to the forum. Once you give meaningful details about your system and work flow I'm sure someone will be able to assist. You must be doing something wrong to get the effect you describe. None of the members here will have the time trying to guess what it is that you do wrong. You will have to let us in on these details

For starters, have a read of this http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959 and provide the details asked for there. That should get us started.

delorean8202 · Post by **delorean8202** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:26 am

Sorry about that; my profile is updated now.

I have no problem capturing video from DV -- it saves the files in full quality avi format. However, when I edit with VS, they appear very grainy and low quality in the preview window. Thanks in advance for your help!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:31 am

Part of what Heinz was trying to say is that we need to know what editing you are doing to the DV/AVI files; what project settings you are using and whether you have converted them to any other format (Share > Create Video File > ???).

You also need to be aware that the Preview Window in VS has never been particularly good. It is no more than that: only designed to give a general preview of what is going on. It has to compile the previews on the run, which further degrades preview quality. You might want to experiment by outputting your edited project to either a new DV file or a high quality mpeg-2 file, and then playing the new file back in a third party DVD software player to check the quality.

At any rate, I have learned over the years to ignore the preview quality, and to either test output as I have suggested, or to burn to DVD and test it on a stand-alone DVD player and TV.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:31 am

Ken Is correct. In my experience what appears in the preview window is no where near the quality of the finished product. The preview is low quality designed that way to not slow your system down.