Best Video Resolution to Use?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Barry Seymour
  • Start date Start date
B

Barry Seymour

I am a programmer but video newbie trying to use Windows Movie Maker to make
a DVD-based reel of clips from my wife's acting gigs. We have a number of
DVDs with her work; I'm ripping the DVDs to local files, then combining
those files into a WMM project. Once I'm done I want to do 2 things:

1. Create a smaller WMV file to post on her web site, and
2. Burn the project to DVD so it can be viewed on a TV or Computer.

I've already done the whole thing once and it looks OK on the computer and
on the website, but the burned DVD has crosshatching or pixelation or
something -- when viewing it on a standard resolution TV it looks like
you're viewing it through a screen door.

I'm assuming that something got lost in one of the compressions performed
when I originally converted the source DVDs. So my question is, when ripping
the DVDs to AVI, what screen resolution should I use to essentially get an
uncompressed or minimally compressed version of the video? 1024 by 768? 1600
by 1200? Something else?

I have Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP2, 1gb RAM, a P4 computer with a
200 gb hard drive, so space is not a concern.

Thanks in advance

Barry
 
It would be wise to keep the frame size in its original size and ratio.
Video on a DVD uses a 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL) with non-square pixels
to make a frame of 4:3 or 16:9. Try to capture and edit in this exact size
and ratio.

Use DV AVI format for capture.
After editing in WMM save in DV AVI too

The trick is to not let the pixels distort during all that.
 
I use Magic DVD ripper but it doesn't seem to have an option to rip to DV
AVI. It does have DIVX option, but even there I'm being asked to set the
screen resolution.

Is there another ripper I can/should use to rip non-protected content off of
DVDs?

Thanks in advance...

Barry

_________________________________________________

It would be wise to keep the frame size in its original size and ratio.
Video on a DVD uses a 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL) with non-square pixels
to make a frame of 4:3 or 16:9. Try to capture and edit in this exact size
and ratio.

Use DV AVI format for capture.
After editing in WMM save in DV AVI too

The trick is to not let the pixels distort during all that.
 
Thanks, that's exactly what I needed -- please disregard my other post.

Barry



It would be wise to keep the frame size in its original size and ratio.
Video on a DVD uses a 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL) with non-square pixels
to make a frame of 4:3 or 16:9. Try to capture and edit in this exact size
and ratio.

Use DV AVI format for capture.
After editing in WMM save in DV AVI too

The trick is to not let the pixels distort during all that.
 
Barry said:
I am a programmer but video newbie trying to use Windows Movie Maker to make
a DVD-based reel of clips from my wife's acting gigs. We have a number of
DVDs with her work; I'm ripping the DVDs to local files, then combining
those files into a WMM project. Once I'm done I want to do 2 things:

1. Create a smaller WMV file to post on her web site, and
2. Burn the project to DVD so it can be viewed on a TV or Computer.

I've already done the whole thing once and it looks OK on the computer and
on the website, but the burned DVD has crosshatching or pixelation or
something -- when viewing it on a standard resolution TV it looks like
you're viewing it through a screen door.

I'm assuming that something got lost in one of the compressions performed
when I originally converted the source DVDs. So my question is, when ripping
the DVDs to AVI, what screen resolution should I use to essentially get an
uncompressed or minimally compressed version of the video? 1024 by 768? 1600
by 1200? Something else?

I have Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP2, 1gb RAM, a P4 computer with a
200 gb hard drive, so space is not a concern.

Thanks in advance

Barry
Click to expand...


1) For WMV files. you can use Pocket DVD Studio, It can rip/convert DVD
to WMV format. It works greate for me. Addirional. It has rich option
for you to customize. You can control the quality and output size very
well. Here is a link for free download
http://www2.dvd-ripper-copy.com/download/pocket-dvd-download.php
I hope it helps.

2)What software you use to burn DVD? I use Video to DVD Burner all the
times.
Maybe you can have a try. The convertsion quality is excellent. You can
cteate menu with just a few clicks. But the convertsion speed is just a
little more slowly. You can download for a try.
http://www2.dvd-ripper-copy.com/download/video-dvd-download.php

If you still have problems. Post back. I will try my best to help you:)
 
I'm using Magic DVD Ripper to get the video off of the DVD and into AVI
format. The recommended resolution of 720 by 480 seems a little low to me.

I have used two different programs to edit the video, WinVideo DVD and
Windows Movie Maker. WinVideo lets me edit the menu more extensively, or
have no menu at all, which I prefer, but the final DVD looks grainy when
played on the TV. Windows Movie Maker burns a better quality DVD but the
Sonic DVD burner it uses forces me to put in a menu where the title and the
chapter names are limited to 12 characters or something stupid like that.
The end result is that neither work well.

I've downloaded the DivX codecs; not sure where this fits into the equation.

Any suggestions regarding video resolution would be appreciated, thanks.



Barry said:
I am a programmer but video newbie trying to use Windows Movie Maker to
make
a DVD-based reel of clips from my wife's acting gigs. We have a number of
DVDs with her work; I'm ripping the DVDs to local files, then combining
those files into a WMM project. Once I'm done I want to do 2 things:

1. Create a smaller WMV file to post on her web site, and
2. Burn the project to DVD so it can be viewed on a TV or Computer.

I've already done the whole thing once and it looks OK on the computer and
on the website, but the burned DVD has crosshatching or pixelation or
something -- when viewing it on a standard resolution TV it looks like
you're viewing it through a screen door.

I'm assuming that something got lost in one of the compressions performed
when I originally converted the source DVDs. So my question is, when
ripping
the DVDs to AVI, what screen resolution should I use to essentially get an
uncompressed or minimally compressed version of the video? 1024 by 768?
1600
by 1200? Something else?

I have Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP2, 1gb RAM, a P4 computer with a
200 gb hard drive, so space is not a concern.

Thanks in advance

Barry
Click to expand...


1) For WMV files. you can use Pocket DVD Studio, It can rip/convert DVD
to WMV format. It works greate for me. Addirional. It has rich option
for you to customize. You can control the quality and output size very
well. Here is a link for free download
http://www2.dvd-ripper-copy.com/download/pocket-dvd-download.php
I hope it helps.

2)What software you use to burn DVD? I use Video to DVD Burner all the
times.
Maybe you can have a try. The convertsion quality is excellent. You can
cteate menu with just a few clicks. But the convertsion speed is just a
little more slowly. You can download for a try.
http://www2.dvd-ripper-copy.com/download/video-dvd-download.php

If you still have problems. Post back. I will try my best to help you:)
 
First of all you can use Movie Maker and save it without going to DVD.
In fact it is what I always recommend doing.
Save the project to your computer as a DV-AVI (or High Quality NTSC/PAL if
working solely with images and audio)
then import that file into a DVD Authoring program.
I recommend Ulead Movie Factory or, better but much more expensive, Ulead
DVD Workshop.
They both offer free trial downloads and both do a great job with WMV and
DV-AVI files from Movie Maker.
Info on each of tham along with download links and a couple How-To tutorials
are on my website.
 
Back
Top