A couple of questions, when you say produce, do you mean actually burning to a DVD? When you say it turns out terrible, do you mean in the preview? There is a lot of information in your post and I just want to make sure that I reply to the right questions.

Are you simply recording and encoding to a file so that you can watch it on a computer?

You can't have excellent quality in a small file (unless you use special codecs). Storage memory is very inexpensive now so perhaps an external hard drive might be a consideration? You may want to consider converting the finished video file to something like Xvid or DivX once you have the video file. There are free converters for those formats.

As for the audio editing, have you used the built in audio editor in Power Director Wave Editor? You should be able to lower the audio for those words. with that. You would not cut out any of the audio. You can stretch the timeline out so you can really determine how much you want to cut out. Select the clip and separate the video from the audio and then double click on the audio. It will take a couple of minutes for the audio editor to open.

What else do you have running when you are doing the video editing? Things like e-mail, and especially antivirus will cause problems. Do you do regular maintenance on your computer (get rid of junk and temporary files and defrag the disc)?

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Quote: I have tried editing home videos from my digital video camera and I have tried to edit parts of a tv show. The editing process seems to go smoothly enough but when I try to produce the video, it typically comes out terrible. Is power director not a powerful enough tool to edit a tv show and maintain original(or close to original) quality?
I just wanted to bleep out a couple swears and be done. Do I need to run it throguh something like handbreak or something? Thanks

PD10 has some limitations or lack of resources to choose the best way to save a video, especially for standard MPEG2 (DVD).
I use SVRT whenever possible, he he chooses or creates a suitable profile for the video based on the original.
Otherwise, you must know the origin of the video and try to maintain the same characteristics, like interlaced or progressive reversal of this cause image deterioration.
Detail what happens to my PC and talves with others using ATI Radeon video card.
If you connect hardware Video Encoder, and save the video, reverses Interlaced top to bottom, what causes blur the image after rendering. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate

Stevek
I know the preview looks terrible, it is just a simple preview. When I convert home movies, I take the files from my digital camera and throw them into PD10, edit them how I want, then go to the "produce" tab and I typically set it to an MP4 or AVI. I sample the video on my computer using VLC and it seems to have some interlacing issues. Which is weird because I record in progressive.
You mentioned I may need another program to compress the file size. Do you have any free ones you would recommend? Before I was using handbreak... but maybe there is something better. I have an external harddrive, but I dont want my files to be 33GB for 30 min. Especially when it isnt even amazing quality.

With the TV show I was editing, i made my adjustments to the audio and just tried to produce(finalize, whatever you want to call it. Made it into a MP4 or AVI) and it came out with the interlacing issues. Though. Last time I tried a sample and set my profile to use PAL(which is the same as the original file) and the sample test worked fine. Then I tried to do it for the full episode and then when i played the file the audio was all jacked up(loud static and other digital noises).

I probably did have other things running when the file was being created. I figured my computer was powerful enough that it shouldn't be a problem... maybe not. when i get home i will run that diagnostics check.

playsound
to be honest, I tried using that SVRT but I couldn't figure it out. I selected it and it said it didnt have any profiles for me...and i didn't know how to make one... besides, i thought the whole thing was that it creates the profile for you! Are there any interlace/progressive options in PD10?

Thanks for your help guys!!