Maintain DV quality from Capture to DVD.

[Ron P.]

One other thing that could come into play here is the old saying, can't make a silk purse from a pig's ear. Basically you're not going to get any better quality than the source. While you can clean up some faults, like brightness, contrast, gamma, the overall quality of the produced video file from the source, is not going to be improved. So my take on that misunderstood slider is, even if it had the variation of 1,000 the quality will not be improved.

Another variable is Smart Render, which is only suppose to render the changed portions of clips in your project, or those that are not DVD Compliant MPEG-2, not entire video clips. If you enable Smart Render, would that quality slider have much affect, opposed to not using Smart Render? (This is just my thoughts), If the slider had some noticeable affect, then there should be a noticeable difference in the portions of the video clips that were not Smart Rendered.

I tend to agree with Ken, the slider really has no bearing on the final quality, and it should be re-thought as to how the slider is labeled. I'm one that subscribes to just leaving it alone.