Poor DVD Quality / Please help.

[rxr]

I am a newbie, and have tried this probably about 8to10 times now..

1. Sony DV (ViewCAM) to AVI ( WinDVD Capture Tool)
2. AVI to MPEGII ( TmpGenc Plus )
3. MPEGII to VOB Files ( TmpGenc Dvd Author)
4. VOB to DVD ( Nero)

Machine ( Dell 400SC, 1.5 GB RAM, 400GB HDSpace)
Graphics Card
- have a 64 bit tv tuner / etc card from ATi ( PCI Card )
- onboard agp is disabled/notused.

Issue is,
The video from DV CAM to TV - is fantastic clarity and clear colors,
but once I make the DVD, I have almost lost 1/2 the quality, the whole
movie looks faded.

1. Do I need an upgrade in my Graphics Card.
2. Do I need a software upgrade ?
3. What specific codecs do i need ?
4. MPEGII - is what I am encoding into, what other options here to improve quality.

What else do I need, please advice.

The bottom line is, if I copy the DV to a VCR TAPE, the VCR Tape has better quality than the DVD I had made !!

Thanks.

 

[DBXMe2]

its in the way you are importing and then encoding your film.

Ok, this is what you do. Capture your video in AVI or in OMF format. Edit, and then Render your final cut to a Full Rez, Uncompressed version of the original format. THEN Author a DVD, do not encode to MPEG2, thats going to TOTALY lower your quality. Go straight from AVI or OMF to your VOB file.

This is the fun part, you are compressing now MANY gigs of video into only 4.5 gigs. So there is a loss of quality, but you dont notice it as much.

No matter what, DVD will compress your video quality.