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Jun 15, 2016 4:34 AM in response to Hugh DPby Russ H,In some cases, using custom settings can improve the quality on DVD encoding. But if you're working with HD source material, bear in mind that although DVD quality can be quite good, it is an SD standard (which is highly compressed) and will not look as good as your source video. For HD in a disk format, you would need to create a Blu Ray disk, which requires a Blu Ray player for playback.
The settings that work the best will depend upon the type of content – the lighting, the background, the amount of motion. What I typically recommend is to select a short section of demanding content in the timeline – export that (or Send to Compressor), apply a duplicated setting and test a range of adjustments to see whether there is any discernible difference – good or bad – in image quality when output.
For example, one of the two VBR choices may produce better results – or not. Under Quality, the only one I suggest using is Resize Filter. Setting it to Better or Best, probably will probably be helpful if you are down converting from HD to SD.
Good luck. Post back and let us know how you make out.
Russ
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Jun 15, 2016 9:56 AM in response to Russ Hby Hugh DP,Russ,
All looking much better.
Adjusting settings made some difference but when viewed on a television the quality is great. On a normal PC not too bad either.
So all in all you have answered all my questions and enabled the production of a good wedding video.
I will not film inter-laced again but rather stick to 25p.
As the bridegroom, plus wife of course, is soon crossing the Atlantic to spend two years at Wharton Business School, assistance from the USA seems most apposite.
Thanks again
Hugh