architect pal dvd bad quality

[John Rofrano]

It sounds like you are expecting SD PAL video at 720×576 to look as good as HD video at 1920×1080. This isn’t going to happen because you have 5x less resolution. Make sure that you render to MainConcept MPEG2 using the DVD Architect PAL Widescreen video stream template. Before you render, set your project preview to Good (Full) so that it will be picked up by the render template which uses project properties by default. Then render your audio as Dolby Digital AC3 Pro. This should give you as good results as possible for PAL SD.

~jr

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[Ed Baldwin]

[John Rofrano] “Before you render, set your project preview to Good (Full) so that it will be picked up by the render template which uses project properties by default. Then render your audio as Dolby Digital AC3 Pro.”

jr, I did not think the Preview quality had any effect on the rendered video. In Help “Click the Preview Quality button and choose a setting from the menu to change the quality and resolution for rendering your video preview.

This setting is used for previewing only and has no effect on the final rendered video.” Has something changed or am I missing something?

– Ed B

[John Rofrano]

[Ed Baldwin] “This setting is used for previewing only and has no effect on the final rendered video.” Has something changed or am I missing something?”

Well… I noticed that when I have my preview set to (Auto), render uses auto mode, if I set my preview to (Quarter), render uses quarter mode. This is just my observation so I assume it might have an affect on render quality but maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it always renders Full. I just did a few more render tests and they all looked the same so maybe it doesn’t affect the final render.

~jr

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[Ed Baldwin]

[John Rofrano] ” if I set my preview to (Quarter), render uses quarter mode. This is just my observation so I assume it might have an affect on render quality but maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it always renders Full. I just did a few more render tests and they all looked the same so maybe it doesn’t affect the final render.”

How did you determine what render quality was being used? If you have ‘Use Project Settings’ set in the Video rendering quality in the project tab of the render setup the render will use what you set in in the ‘Full-resolution rendering quality’ in the project properties.

Ed B

[John Rofrano]

[Ed Baldwin] “How did you determine what render quality was being used?”

I was looking at the preview window during render. It will show you the quality it is using. It appears that this has no bearing on the actual render. It just seems to affect the preview.

~jr

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[Ed Baldwin]

[John Rofrano] ” It appears that this has no bearing on the actual render. It just seems to affect the preview.”

Yea, that is what ‘Help’ says: “This setting is used for previewing only and has no effect on the final rendered video.”

I have always set the render quality setting to max (31) and ‘best’ as the only gain would be a shorter render time.

-ed

[Ron Bakker]

Thanks John,
I guess I am just trying to get the same quality as I see on production dvd’s, I think I will have to live with the results as I have done exactly as you suggested. I might look at a blue ray burner soon.

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