Grainy video after trimming.

[keiblitz]

I have used Sonic DVD, Cyberlink Powerdirector, and have just downloaded the trial version of ULEAD. After I capture my camcorder and VCR tapes with a Plextor video coverter into my laptop I get real clean nice MPEGs.

But after I use any of these programs to burn my videos to dvd, they appear on the tv and in my windows media player as distorted and grainy. So with all these programs, even when I take perfectly good looking MPEG files and DONT edit then and just burn them straight to DVDs they still come out looking horrible.

My computer is only a year old and has top notch video capabilities. I have a large amount of free disk space and over 1 gig of ram.

I cant understand this.

Any help much appreciated.

Sincerely,
Keiblitz

[Ken Berry]

You need to tell us the properties of the captured files -- in Video Studio, right click on one of the files and copy down the properties. You also need to tell us all the details of the format you chose to burn the DVDs in.

[keiblitz]

Dear Ken

The File Format says NTSC VCD (which when I ran the software to capture the video from video camer through my Plextor usb video capture box into my laptop I had set on DVD so I dont understand why that didnt work).


Video type when open from the Ulead program says MPEG 1.

When burning the DVD I asked the program to burn as DVD NTSC highest quality

[THoff]

Full resolution DVD files should be MPEG2, not MPEG1. If they are VCD MPEG1 files and you then output to Full D1 DVD resolution, the video must be upsampled and will exhibit a significant amount of pixelation.

I suspect that the Plextor device doesn't capture at the requested resolution, either because of a software bug, or maybe your USB ports are running at USB 1.1/USB 2.0 High Speed (12Mbps) only, and the Plextor automatically switches to a lower capture quality.