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What is the best quality I can get when transfering DV to DVD?

 

 


X-Pontus_Wiklander
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Oct 9, 2003, 6:28 PM

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Hi
I have the great honor of producing a wedding movie for a relative of mine. When doing this I have found that I loose a lot of quality when I transfer the movie from my DV-camera to my PC and I was wondering if I'm doing something wrong. I have a Sony DCR-TRV8E, a PC with 1300 GHz, 256 Mb RAM and Firewire. I have used a software called VideoWave III to download the movie to my PC.
What is the best quality I can get? I only seem to get a framesize of 360 x 288 and I think I have seen somewhere that a DV-camera, such as mine, produces a framesize of 720 x 576 or something like that. Is that correct and if so what can I do differently? Should I use a different software?
Regards Pontus


X-David_Stoneburner
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Oct 13, 2003, 11:21 AM

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It sounds like you just don't have the right setting in the VideoWave software. It should handle full resolution DV video which is 720x480 in NTSC land. I would highly recommend a better software like Premiere or maybe Ulead. Of the two I would say Premiere 6.5, it should work well with your system and has the mpeg 2 encoding that you need for DVD.