[Chris Ernst]

Thanks! That is really music to my ears.

The only thing is I am finding myself pushed toward apple products for editing. What if I am not an apple guy?

I used to be so I am softer than most, I am old and I had an apple IIc back in the day before the mac rage caught on, and I am drooling over the Iphone/Ipod touch platform.

I guess kudos to apple I will become a convert, but I will still use windows along side it.

[Chris Ernst]

I’ve just identified my problem that I originally posted having to do with Interlacing.

I found this helpful article that explains it, but still kind of makes my head hurt. =)

https://neuron2.net/LVG/interlacing.html

The question I have for you is, what should I do if I want to burn a DVD that someone might play on a computer OR a CRT TV and want it to look good in either case?

Do I use progressive scan or interlaced? Whats the easiest way to do this using an Adobe Product, if you know.

Its a pain while I am here because all I have surrounding me are LCD’s and I need to plop this DVD into a TV based DVD player and have a look.

[Chris Ernst]

Awesome, Thank You! Let me read, watch and digest all this… It might be a couple days before I respond again, and besides, I plan on working Friday on this as well.

[Chris Ernst]

Yes I am listening to you, Thanks! You just provided a ton of information right there!

I can tell you the encoding is indeed blurry when viewed at 100% if you are talking about after I ran it through the Adobe Media Encoder versus before.

Yes I can tell by how Googling this problem gives me almost no help that what I am doing is rare.

Tell me more about this high resolution Quicktime method if that is what people are doing when they release video computer how-to’s on DVD.

It sounds like from what you are saying that the reason that is done is because of the inability to get good quality otherwise.

[Chris Ernst]

One frame? how do I do that. I can take a new desktop video and try to upload it using the video tool I see on this email.

I cannot access the original video until Friday, however. Will you still be interested in helping by then?

How will a clip help you help me anyhow? =)

I can tell you what it is. It’s an almost crystal clear capture of an 800×600 desktop, avi uncompressed.

On the other hand it might be to big to attach without choosing a compression method.

Are you still not clear on what I am trying to do? I just need a nudge in a better direction.

Maybe it is impossible without Hollywood quality equipment to get a clear video onto a DVD? What are my options?

[Chris Ernst]

Screenshots of Adobe Premiere or of the blurry DVD playing?

Either way I don’t have access to that computer until I go back to campus on Friday. I was trying to regroup and come up with some solutions to try when I go, which is why I posted to this wonderful forum =)

Its hard to believe that a DVD can’t be made to contain a video of a computer desktop shot with a digital screen recorder (BSR Screen recorder) that would be clearer than just simply shooting a computer monitor with say, a Sony Handycam DVR and burning *THAT* to DVD.

Is there any encoder I can try? any tweaks you can recommend? I forgot to mention that the file coming from the screen capture is uncompressed .avi but does not have to be, I can try encoding it there, the screen capture software has the option, but capturing uncompressed is easier on the computer, of course.

I’d hate to have to tell my professor that blurry is the best we can do. =(