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Jaime-esque
Thanks for the response. The original video was mostly (standard) DV (90%) - shot on an Panasonic DVC 30 camera. There were also a few clips from a JVC camera - which uses MOD files -- which I understand are just MPEG 2 files with a different extension.
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I've recently finished a project in PD. In the "produce" tab I then created a MPEG2 file and an AVI file to test the difference.
I then went to "create disc" and created a DVD in PD - using what was on the timeline (which I assume is in MPEG2). When I played the disc, the video quality was OK - not really good - but OK. But the problem was that the audio kept dropping out every several minutes (the video kept playing =- but the audio dropped out). I tried this a few times - and always the same result.
I then decided to try try to create a disc using the MPEG2 and AVI files I created in "Produce". But this time I used Movie Factory 7 and tried both files. The DVD created using the MPG2 files was about the same quality as the PD created DVD - BUT there was no problem with the audio - it played beautifully all the way through. I then tried creating a DVD using the AVI file - also in Movie factory 7 - this took a while to render and produce (about 80 minutes for a 35 minute movie)- BUT the video quality was significantly better than that produced using the MPG2 file - and the audio was flawless as well.
Does any one know why this is so? Why is there a better quality DVD using the AVI file - when at the end of the day a DVD uses MPEG2 files (so I understand) ? And why is there a problem with audio using PD to create the disc - when there is no problem using Movie factory. From what I can see, Movie factory creates much better DVDs than PD9 - but not sure why this should be the case. Are there particular settings that have to be tweaked on PD in order to get a high quality DVD?
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has had a similar experience and has been able to overcome it in PD - as I'd prefer to work in PD - not have tp switch to Movie factory 7 to produce the final DVD.
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HDedit/Robert2
Thanks for the info guys. I'll go and have a look at the codecs and see what happens.
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I have recently finished a movie in PD9 and decide to create a few files from the movie to see the difference before buring a DVD. So I went in to "produce" and first created an mpeg2 file, then an AVI file and saved these on my hard drive. I then went into the relevant foler and opened up both files to check them - and they both worked fine. I then created a MOV (HD) file; a MOV (high quality file) and a MOV (standard quality file). I then checked these files. The HD file had wonderful quality - crisp and sharp. The high quality file was pretty nice as well. The standard quality file was about the same as the AVI file. BUT ----the problem was that NONE of these MOV files had any audio. Is there some trick to creating MOV files so that they retain the audio?? Has anyone else had this problem? Or is it not possible to create MOV files with audio?
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Dafydd
Thank you very much for your response. I have tried all you have suggested - no gaps anywhere. It seems to be a problem with the scrolling credit effect. When I reomove the scrolling credit title, everything is fine and the soundtrack plays without a problem.
Rather than having scrolling credit (which I'd prefer), I added a fade in/fade out end title (needed to have 2 to accommodtate the amount of text). When I did this I had no problem. So I went back and tried the scrolling end title again - but the same problem occurs. So I decided to give up on the scrolling credit end title and stick with the fade in/fade out title. At least they work. I also tried doing exactly the same length scrolling credit on Movie Factory Pro X 3 and didn't have a problem. But for some reason, PD just doesn't seem to like the scrolling credits. It is 45 seconds long - so maybe there is a limit on how long the scroll can be. I didn't test it with a shorter scroll - but I may try that and see if plays properly.
Regards
Peter
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Thanks to Dafydd I was able to "fix" my cross fade problem. However, there are 2 further issues that have arisen that I wonder if anyone else has come across and has been able to find a solution.
First issue. I have created a movie and at the end I have added some scrolling credits with a separate soundtrack. The credits are about 35 seconds. The problem is that when the cursor on the timeline gets to thwe credits (I'm in movie mode not clip) themovie stops for a second - then the soundtrack starts playing for about 6 or 7 seconds (but no scrolling credits) and then the scrolling credits start tp appear (at the correct point). Is there a reason for this sort of temporary freeze in the title scrolling credits??
The seond issue is with Wave editor. I click on a sound track in the timeline and open up Wave editor - which opens up - but then says "Files not imported". There doesn't seem to be any way I can actually get any audio files into Wave editor to edit them. The audio files are OK in PD and I can do some basic editing there - but just can't seem to be able to get Wave editor to work with PD.
Anyone else come across any of these problems??
I'm using the 64 bit version of PD in Windows 7 with an i7 processor and 8 GB RAM
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Dafydd/PJC3
Thanks for the quick response.
This does indeed work. My problem was that in the preferrence settings, the default transition is called "cross fade"[which is the usual name for this sort of transition]. So when I was editingf and looking in transitions, I couldn't find anything called "cross fade". I assumed that the "fade" transition was the usual "fade to black".
But having used the "fade" transition between 2 clips, it is indeed a nice cross fade (which is what it is called in preferences). A pity they couldn 't keep their naming consistent throughout the program. But all's well that ends well!!.
So thanks for you great help. I'll probably add this program to my other editing programs as it is quite good (although some of the audio editing features could be improved).
Thanks again
Peter
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i wonder if anyone can help with an issue I have with PD9. I've been trialling PD9 for a couple of weeks - and find that it is a relatively gpood editing program with a lot of good features (but several limitations in the audio department. My problem is with the transitions - or really one transition in particular. There is no transition called 'cross-fade" (which is generally one of the most used transitions in editing). There is a transtion called "cross" - which I assume is the PD version of the normal cross-fade transition. But this is a let down - because there is no nice fading in/out of the 2 clips to which it is applied. Instead, the clips turn dark at the start of transition point rather than having a nice clean fade in/out of the clips from the start to the end of the transition.This completely spoils the effect. I've never seen this sort of cross-fade transition elsewhere - certainly Corel Movie Studio Pro X3 doesn't doesn't do this - neither does Final Cut Express. Is there any reason why PD9 does this - and is there any way of fixing this so that there is a nice clean cross fade between the clips to which the transition is applied??
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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