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Poor quality DVD when played on TV
I just got the program and messed around making a short little video with some footage I had from my MiniDV camera. I played it on my TV and the quality is terrible. Any ideas on what I did wrong?
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7 Replies
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You may have to start by giving us some of your settings. Bit rate, total running time of the videos, field order, even a screen shot from a DVD player on your computer might help..
Vince
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MPEG 2 DVD
NTSC 720×480
29.97 drop frame
CBR encoding
7.0 mbps
Field Order Lower
GOP M Frames 3 N Frames 15I watched it on a Samsung 32 inch LCD HDTV
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Well, the settings seem fine. Did you export to DVD directly from Premiere ?
Of course, watching a DV to DVD footage on an LCD screen is going to bring out many of the artifacts you may not see on a smaller screen, or on a regular TV.
By “terrible”, do you mean noisy? It would be great if you could post a screen capture from your computer screen.
Vince
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Is the image being “upsized” to fit the HDTV screen? Your HDTV LCD is probably 1280 x 720 (or similar) so even if you have an upconverting DVD player, there’s a lot of digital manipulation going on to make it fill your TV. Try playing it on an SDTV and see if it looks better.
Larry Melton
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It is upsized. It looks much better on a SD. Is there anything I can switch in Premeiere and burn another to make it look better?
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Unfortunately, no. The quality will depend on the unit doing the upsizing, some do better than others. You could also export to progressive. That will improve the quality in some players / screens, but might also bite you on certain players..
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I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the help.
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