Finished DVD plays very Pixelated???

I have a project that I exported through encore to DVD without menus but plays really pixelated on all TV's like a lot of little boxes around everything? I exported in medium quality was that not enough or is there a bigger issue here? Its not HD nor is it widescreen just standard.

Simon,
As a test I would suggest to sacrifice a DVD-R made by either Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden, burned with 4x speed. Also make sure that your burner's firmware is up to date.
Maybe you are just looking at a problem of the DVD player reading the disc. That can cause the image breaking up into mosaic-like blocks.

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Lots more information is needed
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
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What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
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http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html
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Hi!
I made a 23-minute film with iMovie. Material was shot with Samsung VP-DC161 digital video camera. The quality is not impressive but it is bearable.
After editing the result looks allright. I put the DVD together with iDVD and burned a disc out of the movie. My iMac plays it back just as I'd expect.
here comes the "but"...
When I feed the DVD in my DVD player connected to my TV, I get noticeably worse results when playing back. Whenever the camera moves, it looks like I get reduced FPS, the movement in the picture from frame to frame looks like 12 FPS slide show. This gets annoying when the camera moves around, when it shoots a fixed point and people in the picture are moving I don't get the slide-show effect.
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Hi!
First of all, thanks for help so far...
Later versions fixed that. You do have v6.0.3,
right?
I actually do - I see that I posted into a wrong forum,m my mistake!
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Hey wait a minute! A quick Googling around indicated
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camcorders but can be tweaked to work with them with
3rd party apps.
How did you import the footage to iMovie??
Copied the 8 cm DVD files into my sons hard disk (PC), burned a 12 cm DVD out of the files and then converted them into DV-format using streamclip.
I guess your problem is in the import process. Maybe
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first.
The DVD Player.app on your Mac may deinterlace the
playback, but when viewed on a TV the wrong field
dominance is VERY easy to see.
Ok, I need to study more of this. I'm a total newbie what comes to digital video, so back to study...
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I tried the procedure you mentioned. I added the 3 way colour corrector. I couldn't find any chrominance level just the one saturation slider, which I increased about 20%. I then reduced the brightness sliders beneath each colour wheel.
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Hello, this is my first dvd I created.
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Aspesct Ratio: 720x576
Pixel aspect ratio 1,422.
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Interlace: Lower Field First
In Encore DVD I imported the video as an asset, menu is set to PAL 16:9. All works fine in preview view. But when I play the finished DVD the video looks like the picture in the link below, the menu works fine. But when I try to play the transcoded video in Encore Preview after I completed the burning. I got an error message "abnormal condition". And after that I am not able to import the 3min avi file, I got the error message: Error loading transcode preset.
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There is a > Discussion > iMovie > iMovie HD6 going on into which I entered. I posted the following earlier today. I am the entrant with trhe Japanese doll in red, can't miss it.
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(Encore cs5.1)
My finished dvd normally is always:
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Menu doesn't quite fit on the screen (even though it did within encore)
Reduced video quality (pixelated)
Can anyone please help me out the best export settings
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Well the video it's self is generally fine until i put it into encore and it gets transcoded and what not and i was wondering what's teh best transcode / export setting for encore basicly but i've answered your questions anyway
What version of Premiere Pro? Include the minor version number (e.g., Premiere Pro CS5.5 with the 5.5.2 update).
Cs6
Have you installed the recent updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
Yes
What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.6.8"---not just "Mac".
Windows Ultimate 64-bit (Service Pack 1?)
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usually .avi however i always experiment for the best result, i'm not sure what codec
If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
No error messages
What were you doing when the problem occurred?
well there isn't one
Has this ever worked before?
never hasn't just poor quality after exproting and transcoding
What other software are you running?
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Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed?
Nope
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intel i5 2500k
8gb Ram
1 terrabyte hdd
2 terrabyte external hdd
nvidia gtx 570
guess that's all the important stuff
Are you using Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration?
don't think so but don't know how to check
Does the problem only happen with your final output, with previews, or both?
Generally final output, howver sometimes the previews are off to
I hope that's what you where asking for
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Why will DVD play on one player but not another??

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Last edited by MillTek (2008-04-20 20:45:12)

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nigelfromlewes wrote:
What can I add other than I followed the instruction to the letter and have purchased a suggested
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whining and threatening (typically: "Lightroom is looking better and better", but your "proove me wrong for deciding on MAC over PC !" is up there) lower your chance of receiving helpful advice.
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Should I convert just the clips which are out of sync in the DVD, or all of theclips in the FCP timeline?
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Ill try it though. Its an odd problem so its likely to have an odd solution. Willing to try anything at this point.
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