Quote: I am puzzled. Recently upgraded to PD 11. If I burn a DVD I only have the option of burning at MP2 !? Lousy DVD quality results. If I produce the HD file to a folder as an MP4 HD video and drag it to a DVD independent of PD 11 the quality is perfect. Also some serious degradation when uploading to YouTube . Video is 1080 30 fps. What's going on?

Thanks

What is going on is you are using DVD. DVD is only Standard Definition 720x480/576 NTSC/PAL.

You can burn a AVCHD DVD which is High Definition. But it requires playing in a BluRay Player that plays AVCHD disks.

Carl that doesn't make any sense....I don't think. When I burn from PD 11 to a DVD (you are correct in assuming the type of DVD I am using), the video quality is poor. However, if I produce the file and save as an MP4 1080 on my hard drive and then drag that file to the same kind of DVD (independent of PD 11), the video quality is excellent. This tells me something "bad " is happening in PD 11. Other ideas? Thanks

What doesn't make sense about it? How are you 'dragging' the file to a DVD? Are you actually burning it as a DVD of as a data disc? 1080 is going to be higher quality than 480. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

What doesn't make any sense is that I am burning the same type of DVD two different ways. One directly from PD11 using a PDS file. And the other I simply drag the MP4 file I produced in PD11 to the DVD burner. The one I produced as MP4 dragged to the DVD burner independent of PD11 is way higher quality. That just doesn't make sense. I don't know how much clearer to make it and perhaps I just don't have the knowledge to understand what is being explained to me. Thanks

Think of a DVD as media - a physical (optical) disk. But DVD is also one type of recording, as Carl explained, designed to play on most standalone DVD players.

If you burn DVD media with Mp4 1080 data, which appears to be what you've done with your dragged file, it is not a DVD recording.
It will play on a computer's optical drive, but likely not on standalone DVD players - though a few may handle it.

The 1080 Mp4 burn will be of higher quality than the DVD Standard Definition 720x480/576 NTSC/PAL burn.
They both can be recorded to DVD MEDIA, but they're different critters.

Thank you, Borgus1. That's what I was trying to get around to. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

That makes more sense. The confusion for me probably arose because the dragged MP4 DVD plays in my Sony DVD player attached to my TV. What PD11 is doing when I choose the DVD setting rather than Blue Ray is configuring the DVD to play on any DVD player, mine happens to play blue ray so the MP4 file dragged to the same type of DVD looks much better. I wonder what PD11 will do if I ask it to burn a Blue Ray DVD, but on a non-blue ray disc. I'll give that a try for fun. Thanks all.

Still doesn't explain the absolute crap I get for videos uploaded to YouTube directly from PD11.

I wonder what PD11 will do if I ask it to burn a Blue Ray DVD, but on a non-blue ray disc. I'll give that a try for fun. Thanks all.

Still doesn't explain the absolute crap I get for videos uploaded to YouTube directly from PD11.

You can burn a AVCHD DVD disk. AVCHD is High definition written to a DVD Media.

AVCHD DVD requires a compatible Bluray player.

You can upload High Definition videos from Powerdirector to Youtube. You must select a HD profile to send to Youtube.



Or you can produce your video in the resolution you wish, then use your Youtube Account upload.

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Thanks Carl

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I don't know if this is considered "hijacking" because I'm only a newbie too. I also found that uploading directly to Youtube via the PD11 option was really poor quality. However when I send to Youtube separately after producing the file into an AVCHD format, then it looks way better. And when I read one of the other posts about same issue, one of the sr contributors said the same thing. When I send mp4 or mpeg 2 to Youtube, it is not nearly as good quality as AVCHD H.364 at 1920x1080/60 i. That said, I also recently learned that Youtube does not produce at that level of quality but it will still look better the higher res you can use. However, the length of time to produce and upload to Youtube will be greatly increased, so you have to decide which is more important to you, time vs quality. I've opted for best quality, but my 30-58 min videos take 256-356+ mins to upload to Youtube now so I do it overnight. Tina9999 CyberPower Inc Windows 7
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