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[Paul A.]

I've been very pleased with the quality of my Sony TRV900 filming of
my kid's baskeball. I typically download the DV format onto computer
or just output to my S-Video TV. I looks great; very little motion
artifacts. I have tried several approaches to encode the DV into
MPEG-2 so I can create DVD's. Each time, the motion artifacts are
very noticable. I don't need real-time nor severe compression, just
very little blockiness and be able to format to DVD. I've played
around with MyDVD, Pinnicle's Studeo8, and even TMPGenC. Are there
any guidelines for minimizing the artifacts for quick sports in DV?

Paul A.

[Smarty]

Paul,

I owned a TRV900 and it was one of the very best consumer camcorders I have
ever owned / used. One important issue in making mpeg2 files to minimize
artifacts, particularly if fast motion is involved, is to use a high bit
rate. You might increase the bit rate for the video encoder to see how much
difference this makes. Since these are home movies of your kid's basketball,
you probably don't need to fit 2 or 3 hours on a single disk, and can
therefore afford to use a very high encoding rate (at the expense of total
recording time on the DVD). A constant bit rate around 8000 kbits per second
(8 Megabits per second) should give you well over an hour of DVD play time
with excellent video quality.

Since your audio is being recorded from the TRV900 microphones, you can also
get away with a relatively low audio bitrate (like 128 kbits/sec) without
any noticeable degradation. This setting is really optional, and does not
directly impact the video quality. It does, however, free up some additional
capacity of the disk if you want to increase the video rate even further.

TMPGE makes very nice looking and smooth video at the higher rates so it
should give you a good result.

Good luck!

Smarty


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[Guest]

I used the same camera, and TMPGE, for shooting table tennis, one of
the fastest sports there is. I set TMPGE to the fastest constant
bitrate setting (CBR/8000). Also choose the highest quality motion
setting. The latter is slow, but makes a big difference.

Scott

In rec.video.desktop Paul A. <panderson2@nc.rr.com> wrote:
: I've been very pleased with the quality of my Sony TRV900 filming of
: my kid's baskeball. I typically download the DV format onto computer
: or just output to my S-Video TV. I looks great; very little motion
: artifacts. I have tried several approaches to encode the DV into
: MPEG-2 so I can create DVD's. Each time, the motion artifacts are
: very noticable. I don't need real-time nor severe compression, just
: very little blockiness and be able to format to DVD. I've played
: around with MyDVD, Pinnicle's Studeo8, and even TMPGenC. Are there
: any guidelines for minimizing the artifacts for quick sports in DV?

: Paul A.