I have been trying unsuccessfully for days now to try to create good quality DVD home movies. I do have great quality AVIs that I've captured from my Canon Elura 100. I import them into Nero Vision 4 and create menus etc. I have been testing the quality by using a small video clip (like 5 minutes) and the highest quality settings (8000 kbit/s, 720x480), 2-pass encoding mode and the project completes okay. However, the quality is so much poorer than my original files (very pixilated and grainy). Anyone have ideas or suggestions? What should I be expecting in terms of resolution and quality? Even on my TV it looks horrible. I appreciate any help!!!!!!!!!
When you say the files are good quality, it that in the camera or after they have been imported. Are you capturing directly to .avi or is the camera compressing the file before it exports. You might check it's settings. Once the files are in NeroVision 4, if you hold the mouse over the videos in the ediding asset window, it will give some specifics about the file as far as resolution and bitrate or whatever. Are you doing High Definition stuff? If you are, is the camera capturing in high definition, or 16x9? You might also state which version of Nero you are using, and which utility.
