Hi MidTNShooter,

Just to clarify, are you saving that when you are constructing and editing your project, the quality in the preview screen is fuzzy and unacceptable?
Have you set the preview screen to high quality?

Or are you saying that when you “produce” to a file, that this file, when viewed in say Media Player, is very poor in quality?
If this is true, what format/profile (e.g. Avi, Divx, Mpeg2, Mov, etc), are you producing too? And at what settings?

Or are you talking about the quality of your produced DVD?

Are you working with standard or high definition media?

Perhaps answers to the above questions will enable someone to pinpoint what the problem may be.


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Thank you all for the replies.

First I want to say thank you to my post. This is my first post and I appreciate the follow up.

Back to topic. I have a screen capture program that records my desktop. It records in a .AVI format. The full screen view is great with details, but when I used the M'Soft windows program, the file looked fuzzy after I added audio. I went online/review and paid for PD8.

I am used to "exporting" a file/media and not the wording of "Produce".

My goal is to import a high quality .AVI file and add audio and export the file for online company technical how-to video downloads.

I imported the .AVI and was able to add audio file and text, but when I exported / "Produce (vocab different for what I am used to) the file to hard drive, the medis is fuzzy. It is not as crisp and detailed as the original.


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Hi MTS,

I’m still not sure if you have provided those who may being willing to help you sort out this problem , enough to go on here. And by the way, welcome to the forum. Lot’s of very helpful and knowledgeable folks here.

Export and Produce is not just a matter of semantics. PowerDirector has specific names and terms for the various aspects and modules within PD. So to ensure that we are all talking about the same thing, it is imperative we all use these standard terms and monikers, in order to be precise. As you are a producer of instructional media, I’m sure you would agree.

Ok, you’ve imported your Avi screen capture to PD and placed it in a timeline. Then you add some audio. Presumably VO and/or a music bed.
(Perhaps your capture program is better than mine, but I’ve found the quality of my screen captures to be a bit fuzzy. But that’s a separate issue.)
After editing, you now have a completed project. You have your “captured media” and the added “audio elements”, sitting there in PD’s timelines.

Naturally these edited assets, in your timeline, need to now be combined in to a file that you can distribute to your clients. This can be done in a number of ways.

1) By going to the Create a Disc mode, and burning a DVD for distribution.
2) By using the “Produce” mode, to create a “video file” that can be embedded on a website.
3) By Producing a streaming file that can be attached to an email.
4) By hosting a link from where one can download your Produced file.

Each of these methods of delivery have a different format that is preferable to “Produce” one’s project in, with quality ramifications.

So, using your terminology, what format (e.g. Avi, Mpeg2, etc) are you “exporting” your final edit in? I understand that the incoming capture is in the Avi format, but what is the format you are outputting after you’ve added your audio? What format are you combining your edited elements into?

- Is it also “to” Avi?
- Are you taking a 1280x 720 Avi capture and producing to a lower resolution 640x360 output?
- Then playing back the 640x360 at full screen, and now it looks fuzzy?
(Yes, it will, if you haven’t maintained the 1280x720 in your “outputted” or “exported” or “produced” file, or whatever terminology we are using.)
- Does your completed project still look fuzzy when played back in a dedicated Media Player?
(The “preview” is not designed to be a top quality media player. This is so that one’s computer processing power is not being wasted on a pristine preview, at the expense of less available processing power to accomplish your editing. One has to “produce” to say Mpeg2 DVD HQ, or WMV 9 HD Standard, etc, and then view this produced file in say Media Player, to see the actual final quality. The “preview” will not be an accurate gauge of the final product)

Perhaps I am just not understanding your dilemma. And maybe someone else who does, will chime in. But it sure was fun doing all this typing, hahaha .

Good luck MTS! I hope you get it sorted out.


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Cranston -

I think you not only understood the question well, but also gave an appropriate & thorough response. The stars aren't from me, but they're thoroughly deserved.

MTS - the short version of Cranston's explanation is: The profile you choose when you "produce" will seriously affect the quality of the final video.

Cheers - Tony
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