pixelated and choppy rendering

Minviele

Newbie Joined: Mar 12, 2020 12:18 Messages: 2 Offline

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Nov 22, 2021 09:23

I have two video sources: my phone and a drone.

Movies in 1080p imported into PowerDirector 16 ultimate from my phone are blocky.
The imported files are mp4 format. They show nicely when cliked on as a file but not fater rendering in PowerDirector.

In production, I choose H.265 HEV with a profile of MPEG-4 2K 2048 x 1080/30p (NTSC).

Movies in 1080p imported into PowerDirector 16 from my drone are choppy when moving from frame to frame - not rendering from the video card - but each frame has jagged lines where the original file does not.
In production, I choose H.265 HEV with a profile of MPEG-4 2K 2048 x 1080/30p (NTSC).

I am running windows 10 on I7-3930K@3.20Ghz with 32GB ram. Video card is AMD Radeon HD 7800.

Simple objective is to save to DVD and show on a DVD player.

Thank you for your suggestions

T

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Nov 22, 2021 20:52

Quote I have two video sources: my phone and a drone.

Simple objective is to save to DVD and show on a DVD player.

None of my iPhone videos are 2048 x 1080p. DVD resolution is 720 x 480/60i mpeg-2 which may show jagged lines as it is an interlaced format. You may want to consider the AVCHD setting to create avchd folders or disc on DVD which includes both 720/60p and 1080/60p resolution instead. They can be played on PowerDVD and on higher end blu-ray players.

Minviele

Newbie Joined: Mar 12, 2020 12:18 Messages: 2 Offline

Nov 28, 2021 17:41

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None of my iPhone videos are 2048 x 1080p. DVD resolution is 720 x 480/60i mpeg-2 which may show jagged lines as it is an interlaced format. You may want to consider the AVCHD setting to create avchd folders or disc on DVD which includes both 720/60p and 1080/60p resolution instead. They can be played on PowerDVD and on higher end blu-ray players.

Thank you - My phone (Android Notes) can produce 4K movies. In Power Director, I see the following options:

AVI
MPEG-2
Windows Media
XAVC S
H.264 AVC
H.265 HEVC

Is this an upgrade feature?

Thank you for your patience!

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Nov 28, 2021 21:26

The pc is powerful for it’s time in 2012. The cpu and gpu are limited to FHD resolution of 1920 x 1080 and the video standards of that time which does not include H.265. If the latest AMD 21.xx drivers are used in win 10 then there would be no hardware encoding of H.264. The mpeg-4 h.265 encoding must be done by the cpu only which is very slow. The produced h.265 video should play just fine on a modern pc. It will be choppy on this pc though.

Mpeg-2 and h.264 produced FHD videos should play just fine on this pc.