Linking Tracks and Quality

[CJStyle]

Can someone please tell me how to LINK video tracks together so that if I DELETE one segement from a track everything MOVES together on all the rest of the tracks?

What is the best setting to OUTPUT/Burn to Standard DVD ensuring the HIGHEST resolution?

AND if I have one clip that is slightly out of focus, will one of the filters sharpen my clip?



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Video: working with Mpeg2 files from my hard drive camera which captures directly as Mpeg files highest quality
Software: using Video Studio Pro X3

[CJStyle]

Can someone please tell me how to LINK video tracks together so that if I DELETE one segement from a track everything MOVES together on all the rest of the tracks?

SORRY - I just found out how to link together (enable/disable ripple). BUT still have the other questions remaining. My original clip looks sharp BUT looks blurry to me after I burn to DVD....please help....thank you!
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Video: working with Mpeg2 files from my hard drive camera which captures directly as Mpeg files highest quality
Software: using Video Studio Pro X3

[CJStyle]

Hi remember that Travis was helping me a couple months ago with this SAME issue of quality.

However, my video still looks blurry. AND when using Corel DVD Factory to put onto DVD, I am getting Step 1/2: Converting...

Any ideas and how to export my video with the HIGHEST quality???




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Software: Video Pro X3

[Ken Berry]

If you right click on one of your original clips within Video Studio -- either in the timeline or in the library pane, copy down all of its Properties, including, importantly, the Field Order. Yours should be Upper Field First.

Now to produce a DVD with the same degree of clarity, you in effect have to use much the same properties for your output, or at least as near as will be acceptable to most DVD players. Unfortunately, I suspect yours will probably have properties that amongst other things, will say that it uses a bitrate of about 9600 kbps. This represents about the highest quality you can get, but unfortunately most stand-alone DVD players have great difficulty in reading such a high bitrate. You thus need to lower the bitrate to around 8000 kbps if your project is around an hour or less in length. This should still guarantee extremely high quality. And of course you have to use Upper Field First.

The easiest way to get this is to finish your editing, then select Share > Create Video File > Custom. Then in the dialogue box which appears, you give the new video a name, and click on the Options button. In the tabbed dialogue boxes which then appear, you click on the Compression tab and change the bitrate to 8000. You can also vary the audio properties on that tab. You can accept LPCM which is the highest quality, but takes up some extra space. If space is important, then choose Dolby or mpeg layer two audio. On the General tab, make sure Upper Field First is selected. Then click OK to close those dialogue boxes and Save to close the original dialogue box.

If you want to emulate the exact properties of your original video, then if an original clip is the first in the timeline, you can then choose Share > Create Video File > Same As First Clip.

As for improving sharpness, you use the filter called ... well ... Sharpen!

[Black Lab]

We have no idea what your clip properties are. We have no idea what your project/burn settings are. Without that info any advice is just a guess.

[CJStyle]

Yes, it's UPPER Field.

RIGHT now, I am SENDing it out as a video file and will watch the result...then burn to DVD.

Yes, I remember about matching the properties, etc., by dropping first clip on line, right-click to see what prorperties are etc.

THANK YOU!

[CJStyle]

If you right click on one of your original clips within Video Studio -- either in the timeline or in the library pane, copy down all of its Properties, including, importantly, the Field Order. Yours should be Upper Field First:

Hi Ken, thank you for sending this information - I do indeed have everything in order...and space is not a factor as the final piece is only 12 minutes. I definitely have UPPER FIELD first, plus everything as you mention....NOW, what step do you suggest next to burn onto DVD? It's looks like Video Pro X3 has two choices, what's your preference and settings? Thank you!

[Ken Berry]

Forget about DVD Factory "Pro" 2010 which came with X3 -- it's a fairly awful piece of software, best forgotten. If you have not already done so, download and install instead Movie Factory 7 SE which Corel has made available free to users of X3. Then it is only a matter of choosing DVD as your output. When the first screen appears, you Insert your new mpeg-2. Check in the Options cogwheel icon in the bottom left of screen that the box beside "Do not convert compliant MPEG files" is ticked. Build your menu, if you want one, preview it, then burn to disc or to DVD Folders.