Video Transfer Quality Help

[OceanShark]

I just got back from Grand Cayman, and have started to upolad my video using Premier Elements. When I play them on the laptop the look great, but once I transfer them to C.D. or put them on the internet the quality drops amazingly. Are there settings I can play with, and will the DVD come out better? Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks:

Dave

 

[PerroneFord]

The compression from your laptop to CD or the internet may be 50:1 - 100:1. Meaning for every frame of video you keep you may have to toss out 50-100 frames just to make the file size small enough.

The video on DVD will come out better because the file size is not as restricted, but it will still be compressed to a degree. DVD's hold 4.7GB of data. A CD holds 0.65 GB. Digital video runs about 13GB per hour. So you can do the math.

 

[OceanShark]

Thanks for the quick responce PerroneFord, that explains alot.

Cheers:
Dave

 

[larsdennert]

Try transcoding to a WMV file. Good compression and small size.

 

[meekal]

drop by http://piddlefish.servepics.com/SCUBA/video-1minTest.html - i've already done the comparison's for ya!

 

[JamesD]

Meekal,

I guess I'm a little confused, I don't actually really understand what is the conclusion on your site? Is it the one in green, or something else?

 

[HowardE]

I just got back from Grand Cayman, and have started to upolad my video using Premier Elements. When I play them on the laptop the look great, but once I transfer them to C.D. or put them on the internet the quality drops amazingly. Are there settings I can play with, and will the DVD come out better? Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks:

Dave

Really... you need to save your video as an uncompressed AVI file, which is the highest quality, and would produce the best DVD videos. If you are compressing them to a CD, they will not look good, as too much information will be lost in the compression to CD.

I don't know about premier elements, but in Premier, you want to "Save Movie File" and it will render your edited movie file to another AVI file, and you should select DV AVI as the format you want, and the quality will rock.

WMV Files - while they are good for the internet and sharing... They don't make great DVD's, since they are compressed, and the screen size is somewhat smaller. You CAN convert any AVI to WMV with Windows Movie Maker, which is on your computer if you have Windows XP.