Messages posted by Stig Of The Dump

Quote Hi Rob -

Sounds like you've been brushing up on Aussie bush vernacular! or are "Crikey" & "Stone the Crows" midlands-speak too?

I reckon Aussie and Brit lingo is pretty similar mate. Here's another for you.

Her hair(use anything here) is as long as a yard of pump water.

Absolutely BR burning would be superior to DVD. Even better, unless a disc is required, is to produced your slideshow to 1920x1080, pop it on a USB drive & play it directly on your HD TV. That's what I do, though I produce to 3840x2160 because my source material is generally UHD or better.

I knew this was going to be the case, I knew it, I flippin' well knew it, I must have burnt 3 million DVD discs in the last couple of week, incat Verbatin have had to build a new factory just to make blank discs, just for me.

A couple of years back, I (along with forum member, Nina) did some pretty extensive testing with downscaling higher resolution images. Many photo editors were compared for PQ, along with allowing PDR to downscale in production. Even though I was certain that resizing in Photoshop (or similar) would yield a better result than letting PDR do it, I wasn't able to conclude that after weeks of playing with it. My conclusion was that it made very little difference to the final output.

Would you and Nina like to buy some Verbatin shares as I have some for sale now.

Cheers - Tony

My utmost appologies for not getting back to you sooner, I went away for a couple of weeks and then I spent 14 years trying to find my original post, I hate it when people don't reply and I'm very sorry for that me old cock sparrow.

Amazing in this modern world that your pictures get squashed so you can stuff them on a plastic disc for a crappy slideshow but you can burn an image to a CD and have it printed with no loss of quality as big as the house, crazy ole world Tony.

Righto, I'm off to the shops to buy a memory stick, no doubt it will be 18 feet long which will mean I will have to sell the car and buy a lorry to get it home, then knock the outside wall out of my house to get it inside, re-enforse the computer desk with scaffold poles, get it all set up to find out they have changed the USB socket to the new 4kUHD Mark 4, which means I'll have to knock the house wall out again, get my lorry out and go and buy the new version for $18,000 + tax @ 25%. Take it home, set it up again, re-build the wall, then some company will bring out a new programme which will allow you to burn full UHD slideshows on a C90 Cassette tape for 30 pennys.

Thank you for the help Tony, the worlds gone jockin' mad mate.

Yours most lovingly and a big tonguey kiss.

Rob

Xxx.

Hope my Mrs never sees this.

First of all I'd like to thank you very much for taking the trouble and the time to reply to my problem and my word it's a problem.

Crikey this digital world is a pain in the bum mate it really is.

From what I can gather from your answer the computer when rendering squezzes the living day lights of a big images, burns them to a DVD and the the player blows them up again and buggers them up, arghhhhhh.

So would it be better to make the images smaller before burning to a DVD if that makes sense or........................

........would it be better to buy a Blue Ray burner and leave the images as taken straight out the camera and burn to 1080p 2 mts.

Stone the crows this is doing my flipping head in mate it really is.

Many thanks once again Tony.

Rob

Quote The standard dvd resolution is 720 x 576/50i. You need to produce the slideshow to 4k or uhd resolution like 3840 x 2160/25p mp4 to a usb flash drive to see it much sharper on your 4k tv.

Thank you for the quick response Tom but the TVs are not 4k but just normal HD and played either through a normal DVD player or a Blue Ray player, if I save it and plug the PC into the TV the quality is bang on and pin sharp, onlt after burning to DVD the quality drop big time terrible, I don't understand.

....but I do not know for the life of me what is happening.

I put all my edited pictures on the timeline that have been adited in Lightroom 5.7

Pictures are from a Sony A6000 and are as sharp as a new pin.

I then go to CREATE DISC.

Click DVD VIDEO, 2D, AVCHD, BEST QUALITY, MPEG 2 and then burn.

Playback through a normal DVD player and the pictures are pixelate and not sharp at all, playing through a Blue Ray the results are the same, terrible.

Tried it through a Panasonic TV and my Mums very expensive Sony TV also through a normal DVD player and also a Blue Ray player and I get the same result, aweful.

I've burnt in every format and size and all the results are the same, terrible.

I must be doing something wrong somehwere but I do not know where.

Can anyone help me please and huge thanks in advance.

Thank you and peace to you all.

Rob

Hi Mike

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my queery, I will now give the above another go.

Many, Many thanks

Regards

Rob

I cannot find the 'Enable Video Encoding Box' to disable it. I did burn a DVD last as per your instruction but still no difference, blotchy and crappy still.

Crikey, I have a little more time now to type a little slower and more accurateley now, where do I start, I can see I'm doing something wrong so here goes.

The little Sony HDR-AS15 sports I set at 1080 30p and also 1080 60p eithar at 120 or 170 degrees both setting can be set as PALs, these are Mp4s

My Sony Alpha 580 DSLR can be set as either Mp4s or AVCHD.

My Panasonic is standard AVCHD Progressive.

My Panasonic HC-V500 I set at either 1080/50p or HA1920 1080/50i (for better quality). MTS files.

All equipment when played through the HD telly directly through a HDMI lead are HD sharp as a pencil, lovely......

Don't go to just sleep yet :

I load my video footage via the PCs card reader and they go into 'My Pictures', I'll use the Panasonic HC-V500 in my explanation and save the video once finished back into 'My Pictures'

Open PD10 in full edit.

Click 'Import Media Files'

(Opens in 'My Pictures) Click on MTS video file, click open and this take the file into PD.

Drag MTS file onto timeline.

Multi trim video.

Click produce.

Click MPEG-4. (Standard 2D, Fast Video Rendering Technology (Ticked) Hardware Video Encoder (Blue Highlighted) Enable Preview During Production (Ticked)

Click 'Start'. (I have just rendered a short video of a Cicada on a branch whilst in France 2 years ago. It is 26.22 seconds long, time taken to render = 15 seconds dead.) Click play whilst still in PD and the quality is super, great colours, contrast, no pixelation, no jumping, super smooth and lovely as would be expected.

I would normally press the 'X' upper right hand side of the screen and save it as EG: CicadaInFrance (I will do this right now)PowerDirector Script *PDS

Click save. I can now either upload to Youtube or put the file back into PD and burn as a DVD (I do not have a Blue Ray Burner - maybe this is the problem) One thing that I have noticed a box comes up saying: Cyberlink CLQTKernalClient32 has stopped working. I will now make a DVD using the original MTS file.

I have now clicked 'Create Disc', Title 1, My Video, 00:00:26, disc used is Maxwell DVD+R DATA/VIDEO, 106MB/4700MB, Click: Burn In 2D. Recording Drive BDDVDRW CH20L - Recording Speed 16.0. OK - Start Burning. Authoring and burning until ejection 2:43secs.

Tested video in front room on a DVD player (not a cheapo model + Panasonic HD telly) and does not look bad to be honest but at 16:9 the little Cicada has put on weight (he's fat) and the top and bottom has become cropped. It seems to me that it is the length of the video as 5 minute video is terrible, a 12+ minute video turns into a psychedelic colour extravaganza drug induced party.

Do you suggest buying a Blue Ray burner to get better quality?

It amazes me that even though I've spent hundreds and hundreds of pounds on quality cameras, video gear, decent software, tripods, fast cards, etc, the video quality is dare I say it, complete crap, I don't understand and I hope that you can help me.

Many thanks and kind regards.

Rob

Hi Mr Fenman

I am very sorry that I have not replied sooner to the write up you have taken time to think about and type out, very sorry but I am up and down to the hospital at the moment as my Mam is not very well and it's the first chance I have had to switch my PC on and guess what I am just about to go again the very minute, I'll write a few notese down to day.

Regards

Rob.

Hi all on Cyberlink, I am new here and my proper name is Robert or Rob or Bob.

Here goes for my first ever post and I hope someone can help me.

I have a little problem with PD10 Ultra, it's probably a little problem but it's an annying one and it's driving me mad.

I set my producer to Mp4 DVD, and render to burn in 2D.

When I play back the DVD through a normal DVD player (Panasonic) and also through a Blue Ray DVD player (Panasonic) the playback is blotchy, pixel-lated and colours that are somewhat not very good and no where near HD quality in the slightest.

Playback is on a new Panasonic full HD smart TV.

The video equipment is a Sony HDR-AS15 sports cam set at 1080 - 60p at it's highest quality.

I really don't know what to now, is it the burner? Hardware? I'm stuck.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Regards

Rob.