Poor Picture Quality After Editting

bloomper800 · 16th April 2009

Hi,

I am new here and also new to videography. I am currently using Panasonic MD9000 and Sony Vegas Pro 8 and Movie Story for editting.

I discovered that the picture quality that downloaded to my laptop are rather poor and very blur (Using Vegas to convert to AVI format and than using Movie Story to create Video Clip)
I dont know what went wrong with it and when I play back on my MD9000 the picture are rather clear and nice. Thinking of changing to HD camcorder at the same time Ibook for editting (Will this solve my problem?)

Hope all senior can help and advise.

Many thanks

playplay · 25th May 2009

During editing, the video aren't clear i guess because it hasn't been rendered yet. I am using Mini-DV tape so might diff from HDD DV.
But after rendering, most of the noise and blur are gone. Have you tried completing the rendering?

alternus · 25th May 2009

I assume you captured the footage to your PC with Vegas from your MD9000 via firewire. And the files are DV avi files right?

I'm not familar with Movie Story's file handling, but you should not have image quality issues if you edit in Vegas and render your movie file from there. Perhaps do some drag-and-drop in Vegas, then render out in Vegas to check if the image quality is fine?

jaegersing · 26th May 2009

When Vegas captures the video it should create the DV AVI files automatically, and the quality is the same as what is recorded on the tape in the camera because the capture process is just a data transfer, i.e. no recompression is done. As Alternus mentioned, this is assuming you are using firewire to capture (you should be - if not, that is the problem).

So, the DV AVI capture files are the best quality you can get, and every conversion you do from that point on will degrade the video to some extent. If you render from Vegas you have many options on video format. If you are viewing on a laptop, you could try WMV format, maybe 640x480 at 2-3 Mbps. This will give pretty good results for most SD video.

If you have Vegas Pro 8 I am not sure why you are using Movie Story, because Vegas can probably do anything that MS can do, and lots more besides. Vegas is a very expensive capture program if that's all you are using it for.

16th April 2009	#1
bloomper800 New Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 6	Poor Picture Quality After Editting Hi, I am new here and also new to videography. I am currently using Panasonic MD9000 and Sony Vegas Pro 8 and Movie Story for editting. I discovered that the picture quality that downloaded to my laptop are rather poor and very blur (Using Vegas to convert to AVI format and than using Movie Story to create Video Clip) I dont know what went wrong with it and when I play back on my MD9000 the picture are rather clear and nice. Thinking of changing to HD camcorder at the same time Ibook for editting (Will this solve my problem?) Hope all senior can help and advise. Many thanks

25th May 2009	#2
playplay Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Choa Chu Kang Posts: 396	Re: Poor Picture Quality After Editting During editing, the video aren't clear i guess because it hasn't been rendered yet. I am using Mini-DV tape so might diff from HDD DV. But after rendering, most of the noise and blur are gone. Have you tried completing the rendering? __________________ My Humble Portfolio

25th May 2009	#3
alternus Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: SG Posts: 142	Re: Poor Picture Quality After Editting I assume you captured the footage to your PC with Vegas from your MD9000 via firewire. And the files are DV avi files right? I'm not familar with Movie Story's file handling, but you should not have image quality issues if you edit in Vegas and render your movie file from there. Perhaps do some drag-and-drop in Vegas, then render out in Vegas to check if the image quality is fine? __________________ www.alvinadelineweddings.com Member of the Wedding Cinematographers Guild

26th May 2009	#4
jaegersing Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,135	Re: Poor Picture Quality After Editting When Vegas captures the video it should create the DV AVI files automatically, and the quality is the same as what is recorded on the tape in the camera because the capture process is just a data transfer, i.e. no recompression is done. As Alternus mentioned, this is assuming you are using firewire to capture (you should be - if not, that is the problem). So, the DV AVI capture files are the best quality you can get, and every conversion you do from that point on will degrade the video to some extent. If you render from Vegas you have many options on video format. If you are viewing on a laptop, you could try WMV format, maybe 640x480 at 2-3 Mbps. This will give pretty good results for most SD video. If you have Vegas Pro 8 I am not sure why you are using Movie Story, because Vegas can probably do anything that MS can do, and lots more besides. Vegas is a very expensive capture program if that's all you are using it for.