Advice for a novice!

[Neil Moulton]

Hello all
I hope I have chosen the right forum to pose this question!
I have an 'off the shelf' digital camera which I have succesfully downloaded and saved on to a 'DVD' format, which I can put on my DVD player & through my TV, and the quality is excellent.
In the Chrismas sales I then bought a JVC digital camcorder (DX77 I think??). I have managed to download the footage to my PC, edit it via ArcSoft Showbiz software, created a DVD, but the quality is nowhere near as good as playing the DV tape directly from the camcorder to the TV. Am I doing something wrong, or is that just the way it is?

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, but please don't be too technical as I am completely new to all this!

Regards
Neil

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Couple of questions. What's the running time of the footage off the camera? Did that fill the DVD?

[Neil Moulton]

The section that I downloaded just to see if it was possible was about 2 mins

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Ah. Don't know the software to be honest but is the any quality setting for encoding anywhere?

Also, wasn't wrong with the result? Difficult to explain sometimes I know....

[FourWheelDrift]

First things first, when you transferred the video from the camera to the PC did you do so at full size DV-AVI settings. Eg. 1/2 hours capture is about 3GB in size so 2mins would be around 200mb captured size approx.

If not, if you transferred at lower rates you can never get the quality back.

Plus after you have edited your film you need to save it as DV-AVI again before converting it to DVD.

What software did you use to convert the video to DVD?

[Neil Moulton]

Enocoding is a technical word for me!
I said I was a novice! I am going to read the instructions fully, (and this time absorb the info!) and I may get back to you.
Thanks for your prompt response.
I'll let you know how I get on.

Neil