Need help with Nero burn

[bwayne]

Newbie needs some help with Nero. I've downloaded movie off RTV onto PC using DVArch and burned usign Nero Vision Express with latest updates.

Just viewed the DVD and picture quality is good to poor at times. Aspect ratio looks like a reduced 4:3. Lots of "pixel" effects when movie runs slow motion scenes.

Is this the right result? If the picture quality can't be had any better than this, why bother?

Here are the steps I followed:
1- Select Make a DVD (DVD-video)
2- Select Add Video Files
3- Nero comes back with project requires more disk space than available.Do you want to have project quality reduced automatically to fit?answer YES.
4- Nero comes back and says project quality was auto reduced to Super Long Play (1691kbps). Hit OK, hit next.
5- Select Nero menu
6- Examine results
7- Set parameters for burn. Here are the details:
Sample format: Automatic
Audio format: LPCM
Encoding mode: High Quality (2-Pass VBR)

Number of titles: 1
1. Man on Fire_2005-03-30 (Video Title, 2h 30m 00s)
Video mode: NTSC
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Quality: Super long play (1691 kbps)
Resolution: 720 x 480 (CCIR-601 D1)
Audio SmartEncoding ratio: 0.0 %
Video SmartEncoding ratio: 0.0 %

Number of menus: 1
- Main menu (1 page)

8- Finally, hit Burn

Thanks to all for support.

[replayrob]

What was your recording quality set at on your Replay?
Which model Replay do you have?

Steps to get good quality DVD's from Replay:
1)Record at Medim or HQ setting
2)Download with DVArchive
3)Edit raw Mpeg file with Womble or VIdeoRedo
4)Author DVD with Ulead DVD Movie Factory(save as VOB files)
5)Burn with Nero

[Slack]

[QUOTE=bwayne]
Quality: Super long play (1691 kbps)
[/QUOTE]

Bit rate it too low.

What was the original RTV recording's quality. High, Medium, Standard?

Medium is closest to DVD specs.
But if high motion is not going to fit on a single layer DVD.

I'd re-author to disk @ orginal quality (no transcode by nero) and run it through DVD Shrink to get it to fit.

Then burn with nero.

[bwayne]

Slack:
RTV rec quality was HIGH. What is the "re-author" process? I belive Nero does that? I had earlier tried to shrink with DVD Shrink but couldn't get it to recognize the file type. What's the solution for that?

Replaybob:
RTV rec quality was HIGH. Model 4540. Why do I have to edit? And WHAT do I edit? As above, what does the "author" process get me?

Thx.

[Slack]

First off RTV High quality can have peak bitrates that exceed the DVD spec. YMMV in older set top players.

This process comes to 3 tasks
Edit (Assemble clips, crossfades, titles, remove commercials..etc) [Womble]
Author (Package mpegs and menus into the file structure expected on a DVD) [DVDlab]
Burn (copy that package to the removeable media) [Nero]

It's best in my experince if you choose a single program that excelles at each step, [What I recommend] rather than one that tries to do them all. YMMV

In your case you might want to re-encode (yet another process) and get the RTV RAW mpeg down to 8000 peak bit rate. Then you can examine the size of the re-authored DVD to see if need to go through DVD shrink.

DVD Shrink is expecting to see the 'full package', the DVD title set. Not an individual file.