Poor Output Quality DVD vs. Mpeg

I recently scanned some slides at 360 dpi to a 4 by 6 size when I place them in the timeline they looked perfect. When I burned a DVD the quality was off a little bit especially at 1080p. When I exported as a computer file " MPEG HDTV 1080p 29.97 High Quality " and played it on the TV it was perfect...any suggestions why the DVD output quality was a little off (faces appears to be mottled and lines are pixelated).
I've tried different project settings and the results are the same except anything that's interlaced seems worse, more pixelated.
The Properties for most of the slides are as follows
Type:Jpeg
File size: 1.8mb ( and higher )
image size: 2159 x1439
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Bill

fader5
Could you please clarify your question and its details because I am reading your details as 1080p formats as AVCHD DVD versus HD MPEG2.mpg file.
I am interpreting your question with no involvement of DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc.
I think that you have burned some photos in Premiere Elements
Publish+Share
Disc
AVCHD
with Presets = H.264 1920 x 1080p NTSC Dolby
and would like to see a bit "better" when at playback on your TV's player.
The following
When I burned a DVD the quality was off a little bit especially at 1080p
same except anything that's interlaced seems worse, more pixelated
forces my focus away from
Publish+Share
Disc
DVD
where there are no progressive offerings, just interlaced ones.
I am assuming that your player is a Blu-ray player that supports AVCHD DVD or one of the multi media players that supports AVCHD DVD.
Now when you export the Timeline content to file
Publish+Share
Computer
MPEG
with Presets = HDTV 1080p29.97, the MPEG2.mpg that you obtain displays better on your TV. What is the MPEG2.mpg on...USB Flash
Drive or memory card?
Please review and consider and clarify. Please excuse if I have misinterpreted your question. If I read it correctly, then I will offer comments
for the possible whys.
Thanks.
ATR

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less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
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.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
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
Yours Bengt W

Output to DVD - file types?

OK, so I've gotten myself turned around by being on too many forums.
On a different forum, I was told that to create a TV-quality DVD (so put it in and watch on your TV), you want to have a MPEG-2 file and that you don't want to "export" it as anything else from a video editor (in this case FCE) or you're using compression (H.264 or otherwise). Said FCE should just have a step to burn to DVD which would take the movie and put in it's full form (w/all edits) on best quality on DVD.
Am I missing something here - I only see export? And, I was told to export to a QT Movie at Best Encoding Quality, 30 fps and then the correct aspect ration (4:3 or 16:9).
Basically, I am trying to accomplish two things with video that is captures either directly via DV or I have an ADVC-300 that can pull in (and improve analog):
1) Video data files that are "computer viewing" or online video-sharing quality ONLY (using compression, sized for 480 x 360) - basically they are "previews" of the content on camcorder or vcr tapes b/c someone doesn't want to see all of it in high quality; they want to know what's on their first!
2) DVD-Quality movie from the footage. Create a menu, they put it in the DVD player and watch it. I thought I was supposed to do edits, export to highest quality QT movie, and then use iDVD or DVD Studio Pro to create menu and burn. Thought settings should be using default QT movie export though that does say H.264 unless I change it to something else.
Can someone help me straighten out my confusion? This other board does have a lot of Windows and Premiere Elements users (one is trying to get me to make all data video files into .wmv's which I do not think is the greatest idea) so is that the issue.
Hoping you can help me clear my head with the proper settings for output - thanks!
Alexa

OK - that's what I thought (and I'm reading the FCE manual to verify here). So, I just want to do what I thought, right? Export to a QT Movie (not even using Export to QT Conversion), designate any markers, choose self-contained or not)? Yes?

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