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Thomas Fraser · April 17th, 2010, 08:49 PM

How come when I burn a DVD with Sony Vegas Studio 8 , or any program, it never looks as good as a store bought DVD? I am shooting with Canon HV30 and burning project at high settings. I have a 1080p television
and Panasonic BD50 Blu-ray/DVD player. The footage looks great when shown straight from video camera with HDMI hook up and looks good on computer but not on TV after burning to DVD. Any suggestions or info?
Thanks

Gerald Webb · April 18th, 2010, 01:33 AM

are you burning a NTSC DVD
or
a 1440x1080 HD DVD for use on a PS3 or similar?
When you watch from the cam via HDMI it is a HD picture 4 times the size of a standard DVD.
Render out of Vegas to Bluray in the Sony AVC format. This should put you in the right direction to achieving the quality you're after.

Edward Troxel · April 18th, 2010, 06:32 AM

I'm guessing it's all related to settings. I know the "Movie Studio" version doesn't let you get to the Custom settings so you're using whatever defaults Sony has provided. Then if you're resizing HD to SD, you need to make sure that you render in "Best".

Jim Snow · April 18th, 2010, 12:22 PM

There is a long thread that discusses this in considerable detail. http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/what-hap...d-quality.html

By my own tests, I have found that I get better results by resizing and encoding to MPEG-2 for DVD in TMPGEnc. It uses the Lanczos-3 resizing algorithm which yields sharper results, A friend has observed the same with Premiere Pro. This isn't surprising since Vegas and Premiere Pro use the Main Concepts MPEG encoder.

April 17th, 2010, 08:49 PM	#1
Thomas Fraser Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Toronto Ontario Canada Posts: 70	Burning Question? How come when I burn a DVD with Sony Vegas Studio 8 , or any program, it never looks as good as a store bought DVD? I am shooting with Canon HV30 and burning project at high settings. I have a 1080p television and Panasonic BD50 Blu-ray/DVD player. The footage looks great when shown straight from video camera with HDMI hook up and looks good on computer but not on TV after burning to DVD. Any suggestions or info? Thanks __________________ Thanks for your help everyone.

April 18th, 2010, 06:32 AM	#3
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	I'm guessing it's all related to settings. I know the "Movie Studio" version doesn't let you get to the Custom settings so you're using whatever defaults Sony has provided. Then if you're resizing HD to SD, you need to make sure that you render in "Best". __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

April 18th, 2010, 01:33 AM	#2
Gerald Webb Trustee Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Central Coast Australia Posts: 1,046	are you burning a NTSC DVD or a 1440x1080 HD DVD for use on a PS3 or similar? When you watch from the cam via HDMI it is a HD picture 4 times the size of a standard DVD. Render out of Vegas to Bluray in the Sony AVC format. This should put you in the right direction to achieving the quality you're after.

April 18th, 2010, 12:22 PM	#4
Jim Snow Trustee Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 1,104	There is a long thread that discusses this in considerable detail. http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/what-hap...d-quality.html By my own tests, I have found that I get better results by resizing and encoding to MPEG-2 for DVD in TMPGEnc. It uses the Lanczos-3 resizing algorithm which yields sharper results, A friend has observed the same with Premiere Pro. This isn't surprising since Vegas and Premiere Pro use the Main Concepts MPEG encoder.