Problem Rendering Canon AVI to MPEG2

Henderson

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2008 11:13 Messages: 2 Offline

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Sep 11, 2008 11:32

Hello,

I am testing the trial version of CyberLink Powerdirector 7. I have created a small test movie in PD7 based on *.AVI clips captured using a Canon SD870IS point and shoot camera (I understand that this format is Canon's version of the MJPEG format). Straight out of the camera the clips look great and of high quality. However, the rendered movie (to MPEG2 [I tested several different MPEG2 quality levels]) shows strong yellowish blotches / anomalies, making it essentially unusable. Also, when I render not to MPEG2 but back to a *.AVI, the output looks great, just as good as the original clips, but the file size is much too large.

I like the functionality of PD7 very much and will buy it if I can get around this problem. Does anybody have any solutions / ideas / suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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Bif

Member Location: San Angelo TX Joined: Aug 14, 2008 01:48 Messages: 147 Offline

Sep 11, 2008 14:42

I don't fully understand all the details of it, but from what I've read AVI is not a single format rather it seems to be a "wrapper" and there are different format variations of AVI.

What a lot of still cameras use for "movie" mode isn't always fully compatible with video editing programs and this may be part of what you're running into.

However if the "large file" AVI you render to can then be imported as media and put on the timeline to be edited give that a try and see if you can render to a satisfactory looking MPEG2.

Before I moved into HD, I used to render projects to DVD and then to AVI so that I would have a copy that could play on a computer with Windows Media Player and the resulting AVI file was always huge'ish.

Give Power Director a run with some video shot with a good SD video cam or HD stuff and that will tell you more about the potential.

Henderson

Newbie Joined: Sep 11, 2008 11:13 Messages: 2 Offline

Sep 12, 2008 11:22

Thanks very much for the information.

I have figured out the problem. I had only been viewing the MPEG2 output on my computer, not on a burned DVD. On a burned DVD the output looks fine.

Barry

Senior Member Location: N Attleboro, MA Joined: Jul 13, 2006 19:57 Messages: 295 Offline

Sep 17, 2008 19:11

I use a Canon SD800IS for 75% of my shoots.
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