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More info?)
FYI, I ran a test with different types of transitions and settings,
and the only variable I can see that definitely affects the quality of
the fade up from black in the final authored DVD, is whether I have
"flicker removal" selected for the black clip (I'm editing with Adobe
Premiere 6.01). Too early to be sure, but this may be relevant. It
didn't eliminate the problem, but it helped. Higher resolution also
helped. This is still with exporting to tape and capturing back from
tape, because I don't have the hard-drive space to create the avi's
directly from the Premiere timeline.
Steve S.
"Steve S." <ssake@goldthread.com> wrote in message news:<sMzzc.94897$3x.90537@attbi_s54>...
> Thanks, I am saving your summary, and I agree this would be the way to go. I
> think I'll save it for when I get a new system, i.e., a larger hard drive
> (it's 80 gig now, but I have another long-standing project on it taking up
> space), no concern with file-size limits, and double-layer DVD's (because if
> I increase the resolution too much, the hour and 14 minutes or so of video I
> want to squeeze on the DVD won't fit).
>
> For now, I was able to mitigate the problem to an acceptable level by simply
> increasing the capture resolution from 4,000 to 7,000 for the main body of
> the show, and 6,000 for the two "bonus" clips. That just *barely* fits on
> the DVD, and the only problem I have left is that lip-sync is off on one of
> the smaller clips. If I can resolve that, I'll have an acceptable product
> until I can afford a new system.
>
> In case I want to get a new hard-drive and continue to use this system, can
> you point me to a tutorial for partitioning a hard drive with an NTFS
> partition? I'm running 98SE. Can you leave the rest of your computer in the
> FAT32 configuration? I've never pursued it because I didn't know you could
> "mix and match" configurations like that. Can this be done with an external
> hard drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve S.
>
>
>
>
> "SimMike-" <simmike@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:lf9zc.37906$0y.33019@attbi_s03...
> > If you want the best video out of Movie Factory, what you have to do is
> render
> > your entire video project in Premiere at the highest quality setting for
> the
> > format you are using. If you are outputting mini-DV, use this setting. If
> you
> > are capturing analog format, output in the exact same format as the
> capture. The
> > resulting file will be pretty large, so it is best to output to an NTFS
> > partition on your hard drive. Now import the file to Movie Factory. Make
> all the
> > DVD chapters and stuff like that. When you are ready to output your video,
> > preferably to DVD format, click on the "Project Settings" icon. Click on
> the
> > "change MPEG settings." On the "compression" tab, max out the quality
> slider bar
> > to 100%. Set the "video data rate" to variable and max out the "kbps" data
> rate,
> > which is 8264.
> >
> > The above setting will yield the highest quality DVD output (not as good
> as I
> > eventually want, but not too bad for a cheap or free program.) It also can
> take
> > quite a while to render if you have a slow computer. The only other
> potential
> > problem is you want to have your "working folder" on an NTFS partition. If
> your
> > original video file is big, the resulting DVD conversion file will also be
> > large, maybe larger than the FAT32 file size limit of 4GB. This could
> cause
> > Movie Factory to crash with a mysterious error after spending hours
> rendering.
> > It took me awhile to figure out this glitch. I eventually converted all my
> > drives to NTFS, just so I don't have to worry about file size limits.
> >
> > I never use Movie Factory, or MyDVD, to capture and compress on the fly.
> The
> > captures always have the pixelizing blockiness you describe. The results
> you get
> > when you let Movie Factory take it's time and compress from a file are
> usually
> > substantially better.
> >
> > I usually output my finished Movie Factory to DVD files on my hard drive.
> I then
> > use Nero to make the DVD. Sometimes, with longer DVD projects, the
> resulting DVD
> > files are longer than a standard DVD-R disk. If this happens, I use DVD
> Shrink
> > to shrink the files. DVD Shrink does a better job of compressing the video
> than
> > lowering the quality settings inside of Movie Factory.
> >
> > To use the above methods, you will need plenty of disk space. 1 1/2 hours
> of
> > mini-DV video takes about 19GB of space.
> >
> > Even doing the above, you aren't going to see rock solid transitions. But
> I have
> > found the latest version of Movie Factory 3 to work pretty well,
> especially if
> > the total video is one hour or less.
> >
> >
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