Help: Quality settings

[Ric]

Hi,
I'm new to DV editing and am playing with Premiere and MM2, editing footage
from a Sony DV camera, with a view to burning the end product to DVD video
at as high a quality as possible.
I've created a finished .avi using MM2, then had to reencode to mpeg2 using
Premiere before I can create a DVD using Sonic DVD-it.
The result looks ok, but pans and movement show a jittering that's a bit
unpleasant.

Can anyone help advise with stuff like the encoding settings: I'm using
"High Quality Video: PAL" - are any of the others such as DV-AVI or "high
quality video: large" any better? Is this jittering a result of the mp2
encoding, and if so is there a way to burn DVDs from an AVI file that works
better?

I'm thinking at the moment that MM2 is probably preferable as it seems a bit
easier to get to grips with than Premiere for a novice- it also seems to
automatically generate separate thumbnail clips from each individual shot on
the camera, rather than just capturing a long stream that needs to be edited
later.
Speaking of editing - it doesn't seem obvious how to cut and paste within an
AVI captured into MM2 - am I missing something?

Cheers all,
Ric

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

If you have the hard drive space, use the DV-AVI option for saving from
Movie Maker, and then use Sonic with it. Premiere isn't needed to get the
file to a DVD and may reduce the quality.

You must be missing something. In MM2, you can cut the clip in the
collection, or on the timeline, using the little Split icon under the
monitor. You can also select one or more clips, using standard Windows
commands, and copy/paste them - into other collections, or (if done in the
project) into the same project or another one.

See the DVD burning section of www.papajohn.org for references and more info
about getting to DVDs from Movie Maker.

PapaJohn