Getting the most quality: AVCHD to Standard DVD
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:13 pm
Please advise.
I just reviewed a DVD of a wedding day, viewed from my Sony HDTV. I am disappointed/disheartened with the interlacing lines and softness I am witnessing in the footage, especially during the ceremony chapter. I need to go back, correct these symptoms and re-burn the project to DVD.
Source video footage: AVCHD and a few .MOV clips
I separated the project into chapters and set the clips to each chapter to its own timeline for editing. I then exported each chapter as a DV-AVI to be used in the final compilation.
Ceremony Chapter: I used 2 video cameras to capture the footage - one captured the footage in AVCHD, the other as .MOV files. Then:
1. Because these clips were in two different formats, I converted them to DV-AVI's prior to setting them to a timeline.
2. Set the clips to a timeline, edited and then exported the chapter footage as a DV-AVI to be used in the final compilation.
3. Upon compiling all of the chapters (including this ceremony chapter) the final wide-screen compilation was burned to a folder and then to NTSC DVD.
Questions:
1. Did exporting the ceremony clips as DV-AVI files twice before burning to the final DVD, cause the degradation of quality in the final DVD?
2. Do I dare mix raw clips of AVCHD and .MOV on the same timeline to preserve the quality (and omit one of the DV-AVI exports)?
3. Is there another format (other than DV-AVI) to which I should export the AVCHD files to preserve as much HD quality as possible?
4. Did I miss a setting during my DV-AVI export that may have caused the degradation?
Please advise. Thank you!
Di
I just reviewed a DVD of a wedding day, viewed from my Sony HDTV. I am disappointed/disheartened with the interlacing lines and softness I am witnessing in the footage, especially during the ceremony chapter. I need to go back, correct these symptoms and re-burn the project to DVD.
Source video footage: AVCHD and a few .MOV clips
I separated the project into chapters and set the clips to each chapter to its own timeline for editing. I then exported each chapter as a DV-AVI to be used in the final compilation.
Ceremony Chapter: I used 2 video cameras to capture the footage - one captured the footage in AVCHD, the other as .MOV files. Then:
1. Because these clips were in two different formats, I converted them to DV-AVI's prior to setting them to a timeline.
2. Set the clips to a timeline, edited and then exported the chapter footage as a DV-AVI to be used in the final compilation.
3. Upon compiling all of the chapters (including this ceremony chapter) the final wide-screen compilation was burned to a folder and then to NTSC DVD.
Questions:
1. Did exporting the ceremony clips as DV-AVI files twice before burning to the final DVD, cause the degradation of quality in the final DVD?
2. Do I dare mix raw clips of AVCHD and .MOV on the same timeline to preserve the quality (and omit one of the DV-AVI exports)?
3. Is there another format (other than DV-AVI) to which I should export the AVCHD files to preserve as much HD quality as possible?
4. Did I miss a setting during my DV-AVI export that may have caused the degradation?
Please advise. Thank you!
Di