I took a 30 minute snippet from a concert I taped, edited, and have printed to both digi8 and SVHS tape. Those prints are as good as I can get, IMO. All color corrections, audio, FX, everything comes through as I planned it, no glitches of any kind anywhere.
I took that same editing effort and rendered to MPEG2 and assembled a DVD using DVDA.
In another recent thread, I questioned what sort of audio format I should use. Have tried AC3, WAV.
The audio was free of glitches when I used the WAV format, but had several interruptions when I used the AC3 format (I would have expected the opposite result).
After viewing the DVD and then my DV tape, I'd say the video on the DVD is more respectful than I had initially judged it, but there must be a dozen or so areas where artifacts ruin the picture - nothing major, mind you, just a digital blip in a dozen or so places - very annoying, and, for me, fatal to the usability of that particular DVD.
So, my questions: Am I missing something here? Is my experience representative of the state of the art in home DVD making?
Should I simply go back to tape until technology in this medium improves?
I remember in the days of Vegas Video 2.x and computers with more limited resources we suffered through similar though different inherent problems. Is that what I'm facing, or am I simply making some simple, correctible mistake in my process?
My setup is not earth shattering, but I would think more than adequate.
I run Vegas 4 on a 900 MHz machine with 384 megs of RAM. Plenty of inboard/outboard storage, burning via DVDA on a TDK 8x dual burner (model 840, I believe - it's newly purchased) to FujiFilm 4x DVD+RW discs.
Any critiques/advice welcome.
Caruso
I took that same editing effort and rendered to MPEG2 and assembled a DVD using DVDA.
In another recent thread, I questioned what sort of audio format I should use. Have tried AC3, WAV.
The audio was free of glitches when I used the WAV format, but had several interruptions when I used the AC3 format (I would have expected the opposite result).
After viewing the DVD and then my DV tape, I'd say the video on the DVD is more respectful than I had initially judged it, but there must be a dozen or so areas where artifacts ruin the picture - nothing major, mind you, just a digital blip in a dozen or so places - very annoying, and, for me, fatal to the usability of that particular DVD.
So, my questions: Am I missing something here? Is my experience representative of the state of the art in home DVD making?
Should I simply go back to tape until technology in this medium improves?
I remember in the days of Vegas Video 2.x and computers with more limited resources we suffered through similar though different inherent problems. Is that what I'm facing, or am I simply making some simple, correctible mistake in my process?
My setup is not earth shattering, but I would think more than adequate.
I run Vegas 4 on a 900 MHz machine with 384 megs of RAM. Plenty of inboard/outboard storage, burning via DVDA on a TDK 8x dual burner (model 840, I believe - it's newly purchased) to FujiFilm 4x DVD+RW discs.
Any critiques/advice welcome.
Caruso