quality of video

[Guest]

I seem to lose quality in editing my movie

I transfer the data from the digital camera to my pc using DV-AVI. I edit my
movie. Once finished I create my movie using High quality video (large size)
or DV-AVI. Finally I burn the movie on VCR

When I watch the movie on my PC and on my TV it looks like quality has gone
down (big pixels). In fact it is not as good as the original movie (when I
link the digital camera to the TV)

Any suggestions?

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

I seem to lose quality in editing my movie

I transfer the data from the digital camera to my pc using DV-AVI. I edit
my
movie. Once finished I create my movie using High quality video (large
size)
or DV-AVI. Finally I burn the movie on VCR

When I watch the movie on my PC and on my TV it looks like quality has
gone
down (big pixels). In fact it is not as good as the original movie (when I
link the digital camera to the TV)

Any suggestions?

You are recompressing everytime you edit and save. In the last step, you
record it to VCR which only has about 230 lines of resolution (in a higher
quality VCR, less in a cheaper one).
In addition, you did not mention what resolution you are capturing and
editing at...740 by 480 or 640 by 480 is what you need for your TV to
display it properly. The weak link in the chain is the VCR. You should
invest in a DVD burner and a good quality standalone DVD player for the TV.
I recommend the Philips DVP642...plays .mpeg, .avi. and DivX movies without
the need to re-encode them.

Bobby