looks good on a monitor bad on a tv screen

#1

Hello All,

I have an animated short film, looks excellent in premiere pro at pal widescreen res on my computer screen. However…when I burn to a dvd and play it on my TV it looks terrible!!

Now i understand saturation and luma settings are completely different for broadcast etc. But even beyond that my crisp computer images are looking smudgy and muddy and jerky.

My pipeline has been -

720px non interlaced renders out of 3d app
Into prem pro with session settings pal widescreen progressive 25fps
out to pal dvd avi (highest quality etc)

Burn to disk.

Horrendous output.

Is it possible that when burining to disk the process is futher compressing the movie? (to produce the mpeg?) I have to admit that I am using pretty basic dvd buring software here.

any help would be much appreciated…

Thanks

LA.

#2

Is it possible that when burining to disk the process is futher compressing the movie?
Of course it does, not the burning, but the encoding into an MPeg file.

Into prem pro with session settings pal widescreen progressive 25fps
out to pal dvd avi (highest quality etc)
Don’t know too much about Premiere but what exactly are the highest settings?
Why don’t you output an uncompressed videofile and let Encore handle the encoding?

#3

Thanks scrimski,

Sorry, I didnt explain myself correctly. I simply meant that the two lots of compression where the prime reason for the poor quality, and they are, clearly. You are right the trancsode to the avi first is unecessary. Thanks.

I am having issues with Encore, it keeps failing to transcode the video, so I am having to go another route unfortunately.

Thanks for your help I appreciate it.

LA.

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