Question About Disc Video Quality and Space...

scotty35503

Newbie Joined: Apr 10, 2012 23:23 Messages: 11 Offline

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Dec 27, 2012 06:14

Okay, so I know that there is probably not a "solution" for this, but I am asking in case there is and mainly to satiate my curiosity.

About a month ago, I borrowed my friend's HD camcorder for Thanksgiving, and I also used it to film a short home video of my dad with his dog at the park. The edited result is probably only thirty to forty-five minutes long. Since he doesn't own a Blu-Ray player, I made a DVD copy for him. On the Create-A-Disc menu, the estimated Disc size was around 3.5 GB. I assumed the Create-A-Disc function was auto-sizing the movie for the Single Layer DVD option I had selected. However, when I tried to select an 8.5 GB capacity DVD, the auto-sizing didn't increase.

The real problem is, that the burned video disc's quality was substantially worse than any 4.7 Single Layer DVD usually is. Why is this so? I would have burned the video to an 8.5 GB disc if I knew that it increase the quality, however the disc usage bar indicated that there was no change in size.

It's not the source video, as the footage I shot was of spectacular quality. I have used it before to create a thirty minute DL DVD and 25 GB Blu-Ray movie and they were of much better video quality than this recent disc.

I know that I may have been fairly confusing with this post. Please, ask me anything and I will try to clarify. I'm not terribly frustrated with this problem, but I would like to have these questions answered, if possible. Thanks guys!

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Dec 28, 2012 09:06

Okay, so I know that there is probably not a "solution" for this, but I am asking in case there is and mainly to satiate my curiosity.

You should consider that the DVD-Video quality has limits, up to one hour of video you record to DVD 4.7, DVD HQ profile.
Note: If the video is HD Progressive to create DVD-Video in PD10, will be converted to interlaced which can also reduce the quality viewed on a progressive monitor.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 28, 2012 17:33

scotty35503,

This is just a suggestion of something you can try to confirm the quality of the Standard definition video produced in Powerdirector.

Your original video is HD, Correct?

Produce that video as MPEG-2 HQ video. (720x480/576) NTSC/PAL. May be called DVD HQ.

View that produced mpg video in some player such as Windows Media Player or VLC video player. What does the quality of that video look like?

Standard definition Video looks bad when compared to the HD video. Does the mpg video look better or worse than the DVD you made?

If the produced mpg is better, you need to put this mpg on the timeline and go to Create Disk and burn the DVD from this video.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.