Final DVD quality poor - video deterioration on moving areas of screen

Hi
Can anyone help? - having problems with iDVD finished IMG quality.
Have an iMovie project, shared with iDVD, prepared menus, etc. Video looks find in iMovie, in Quicktime (using iMovie IMG file) and in iDVD previews.
Then saved in iDVD as img file (no superdrive) and opened in DVD Player - picture quality is poor - any moving images get wiggly edges - see the picture below (taken with a digicam as I can't get a DVD screen shot) This continues throughout.
http://www.mcclellandmedia.com/images/S7000744.JPG
As you can see, background reasonable, moving areas are poor.
A history of the project... Started as an iMovie NTSC project whilst living in Canada on an older version of iMovie on a G3 iMac. Material was imported via DV Camera Analog in, then DV tape to iMac. iMovie project was in NTSC.
Moved to UK and updated to MacBook - exported old iMovie to PAL.mov file, opened in iMovie as a PAL project. Updated menus/titles, etc, then exported to iDVD.
Tried both settings in iDVD, Quality & Performance, and both have the same poor quality issues.
I could try importing all the original source material again but that would be a HUGE job as material is scattered on many sources. As everything plays fine in iMovie, in Quicktime with the MOV file and in the iDVD preview, I'm not certain that would help anyway.
I'm an actor and this is my Showreel DVD intended to impress directors - I need it to look right
All advice appreciated.
Dave
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10) 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM

A history of the project... Started as an iMovie NTSC project whilst living in Canada on an older version of iMovie on a G3 iMac. Material was imported via DV Camera Analog in, then DV tape to iMac. iMovie project was in NTSC.
Moved to UK and updated to MacBook - exported old iMovie to PAL.mov file, opened in iMovie as a PAL project. Updated menus/titles, etc, then exported to iDVD.
Ugh. Video standards conversion (NTSC<->PAL) is tricky and may produce quite good or very bad results. Per definition the quality always suffers because different resolution and fps must be converted!
Most PAL gear can play NTSC stuff so you don't necessarily need to convert NTSC to PAL. But for PAL to NTSC you need software.
JES Deinterlacer is a very good quality app for video standards conversion.
For more info, see:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#PALNTSC

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OS -Windows 8
Program - Adobe Premiere Elements 11
System-
Processor- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
Installed memory (RAM)- 12.0 GB
System Type- 64-bit Operating Sytem, x64- based processor
Video Card- GEFORCE GTX 760 2GB GDDR5
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Chris
For your consideration...
1. HDV data capture firewire into Premiere Elements 11 Capture Window.
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or
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and
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Hi
There are levels in h*e*l*l*
iDVD - is same as DVD Standard - Interlaced SD-Video
Feeding iDVD progressive or HD material will not improve result but degrade this as from
- iMovie'08 to 11 - as they can not deliver - but only every second line of the picture
- iDVD downscaling from HD - is doing a bad job
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- iMovie HD6
- FinalCut any version
- FotoMagico™ - (for SlideShows)
If this is not enough - then DVD is no option as HD-DVD is rare and needs special HD-DVD-players - alt
• Blu-Ray e.g. from Roxio Toast™ but still needs BD-Player as PlayStation3 etc
• out in high quality to USB-memory to be played on device that can do this
• Play via MacBook and out to a HD-projector/TV
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
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• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
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• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
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_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
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• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
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(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
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• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
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Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
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DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
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2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
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to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

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I used different transcoding settings such as automatic DVD Transcoding, CBR and VBR.I also set “use maximum render quality”. But all results were always the same: very poor quality.
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How can I solve this problem?
Please help me soon.
Best regards.

Hi Ann,
1) I did not only „Automatic (based on source)“ options in my tests, but also many other customized options.
The results are very poor. I have done a new test with the following settings. The result is also poor:
Download link: http://www.klavierlehrer-bayern.de/download/test_mpeg2dvd_1.m2v
Export Settings:
Format: MPEG2-DVD
Preset: Custom
Codec: MainConcept MPEG Video, Quality: 5
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Field Order: Upper
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Automatic (based on source)
Render at Maximum Rate: [active]
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Minimum Bitrate (Mbps): 5
Target Bitrate (Mbps): 9
Maximum Bitrate (Mbps): 9
GOP Settings
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N Frames: 12
Use Maximum Render Quality: [active]
Multiplexer: None
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I used it and the results are very good as I expected:
Download link: http://www.klavierlehrer-bayern.de/download/test_MatchSequenceSettings.mpeg
Export Settings
Match Sequence Settings [selected]
1920 x 1080, 25 fps, Upper, Quality 50
User Maximum Render Quality: [active]
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The results are also poor.
4) I will test also LagarithLoslessCodec and frameserving +DGMPGDec. But the video is vertical long drawn-ot.
I think I did not use it correctly.
Regards

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