[Frank Rosetti]

Vince and Brian,

Thank you for the replys from my post but I am still a little fuzzy here.

Vince:
1. Vince I do not see the link for the post you refered to.

2. The Video looks clean when I first import it from camera or drop it into a SD timline in PP. After I turn it into a uncompressed AVI from PP and drop it in Encore and burn DVD thats when the video starts looking bad. On my computer and on all 3 HDTV’s in the house.

3. Let me put it this way, my friends kid with a $700.00 canon that 3 months old that shoots HD video an some cheap software he uses makes cleaner video.

4. The video is just fuzzy most of the time and somtimes zaggy depending on the settings when exporting from PP. The best image so far is when Droping into a 4:3 timeline manually scaled down to about 40% then rendered uncompressed AVI, no recompress, Anomorphic 1.3, 1080×720. That method so far has produced the best image. Which is not saying much about quality.

5. If it does no get any better Then time to buy 1D from cannon.

Brian:
1. I agree the down conversion in PP CS3 is lousy, but I have that software already for my still photography work. So the solution is to figure out the best way to use what I have.

2. If this were for professional work money would be spent for other software. This is just to document some traveling with the family and any thing I think looks cool.

Since I am new to the video world this could all be operator error form be missing one little step. Please read this and if you have questions about what I am doing and can help let me know. I would just like to burn a DVD that looks decent. Besides if I can not make something that looks different the wife might not get me anymore cool gifts.

Frank Rosetti