[Jackie Luffy]

John I noticed that when I use “Interpolate Fileds” for the De-interlace method my footage looks the best when viewed, what is your opinion on using that method?

Thanks again

[Jackie Luffy]

Sorry I should have explained more, I am aiming to save these on DVD’s as a data disk, not as an actual dvd video.

But there must be a way to render it so the quality looks to the eye just as good as the original no? I always take MP4 files and will re-render them again with a high bitrate and there is no noticeable difference in the quality to the eye

[Jackie Luffy]

Thank you! Okay sorry I forgot to mention, I am going through these VHS tapes and just keeping the good moments and I want to be able to render them out in the best quality so people can watch them off there computers or off DVD

I will try to render them out as 656 X 480 and see how it turns out, there is nothing wrong with saving them as MP4 files correct?

From what you just explained to me I am assuming that by taking these DV files and rendering them as MP4 I am going to lose a bit of quality no matter what I do because like you said i’m converting them to pixels now, if that is the case I am okay with that! I just wanted to make sure if there was a way to get them rendered out the exact same quality as after these are saved and I view them all with my family I was going to just delete the raw DV files as there are way to many of them and they take up way to much space.

Thank you!

[Jackie Luffy]

I would recommend trying out a program called “WinFF” You can drag and drop all of your clips in at the same time and type in each detail you want, bitrate, frame rate, frame size, everything!

I haven’t used it in awhile but I remember the results were the best I’ve seen out of anything I’ve used for converting AVCHD to MP4

[Jackie Luffy]

This is very strange, a few more problems have come up, Everytime I do “custom frame size” in the render settings and make it 655 by 480 it changes to 656 for some reason, each time I click save and click on something else its back to 656 by 480!

My project properties are set to 720 By 480 so I changed that to 655 By 480 to see what happens and in the video preview it shows black bars on the top and bottom of the screen now, I ignored it and went to the render settings and this time it was set to 655 by 480, but now when I click render I get an error message “An error occured while creating the media file, an invalid argument was specified?

I’m not sure I understand why it has to be 655 instead of 720, how is it that in Vegas 720 by 480 shows that it fits the preview box perfectly but when I set it to 655 by 480 it looks wrong because there are black bars on the top and bottom?

I am also not putting these files for internet use, I just want them to be in the best quality so I can store them on my harddrive

Thanks in advance John, this is a tough problem I’m facing I really appreciate the help

[Jackie Luffy]

I have been messing around to try to figure this out and found that the only way I can get into the “Pixel Aspect” in the render settings is if I decide to make my own custom aspect ratio, this gives access to the “Pixel Aspect” menu but 0.9091 is not an option, its only 1.000 and 1.333

[Jackie Luffy]

Hey again, I have tried to change the pixel ratio to 0.9091 but I cannot find a setting to change this? When I select “Internet 480p 4:3” setting and go to customize it says that its 1.000 for pixel aspect ratio!

But your right in the properties I can select it to be 0.9091 and even when I right click on each clip on the timeline and go to media it says that these files are indeed 0.9091, I just can’t render them out that way for some reason

[Jackie Luffy]

Here are my settings, making them into MP4’s

[Jackie Luffy]

Sorry I would like to add that the rendered out file is cropped on the left for some reason, it is not like that in Vegas, wow SD footage is so much more complicated to work with than HD :O

[Jackie Luffy]

Take a look at both of these images, there is a clear quality loss in the screenshot that has a tint more of contrast (which I added in Vegas) You can clearly see more blocky artifacts in the rendered more contrasted screen capture, I have the bit rate set extremely high as well variable bit rate of 5,000,000 max with minumum of 3,000,000 So there shouldn’t be any reason why it loses this much quality, I even tried making the bit rate to 10,000,000 which is HD quality settings and it seemed to have make no difference, I thought it may have been worse because of the contrast I added but that seemed to prove wrong when I compared them together without the added contrast, there is definitely more blocky pixels in the rendered out file