New to the forum and new to burning. Desktop Specs: HP Pavilion m1170n Pentium 4 530(P) 3.0GHz 512 MB RAM 200 GB SATA Hard Drive 8X DVD (+/-) R/RW DL drive Windows XP Media Center 2005 WinDVD Creator 2 Camcorder Specs: Panasonic PV-GS120 Transferred about 1 hour of footage to my hard drive using firewire and WinDVD. Also transferred about 1 hour of footage using Windows Movie Maker. Edited the video in WinDVD and burned to an HP DVD-R 4X disc. Played it back on Panasonic DVD player and a lot of the footage was "watery" looking. Not sure if this has a technical term or not. Interesting that even the title menu was "watery". It looks this way in the preview window of WinDVD as well but I understand this is common and no indication of the finished product. Burned again to a TDK 4X, same result. Edited the same footage in Movie Maker and burned to HP 4X. Same thing. I play the DV tape through composite cables on my television and quality of fine. When I imported the footage, I used the highest quality settings available and saved as MPEG2. Any ideas/suggestions?
hi its all dependent on what type of format you captured it in the first place on your camcorder! was it avi/vcd as losses of quality will occur to get to dvd compliant! now if you could of taken footage in mpeg2 you would be laughing!
Rotary, Thanks for your reply. I'm confused about your question. Panasonic PV-GS120 is a DV camcorder. I captured some of the video with Movie Maker and some with WinDVD both as AVI files. Should there be such a loss of quality coverting to DVD? What is also strange is that the titles I created while editing also came out "watery". Thanks for any help.
