POOR QUALITY DVD

[Andy]

Hi
I have been playing with video editing for the last 18 months, and have a very very basic understanding of the whole thing, so excuse me if i say any dumb things.
My problem is that i recently purchased a dvd burner model pioneer dv-108, which came with Nero 6, to be able to produce home dvd's and have found that the quality is fairly poor.

My system comprises of:

Sony TRV33E camcorder
Premier 6.5
Nero 6/3
Pioneer dv-108 burner
Dell 4700 PC 3.0 ghz 1gig memory

I have exported footage back to dv and played on tv and this gives a near perfect picture, so i am thinking it could be the nero software as this is the only part that is not used in a direct dv export. But also wonder if it could be the graphics card.

Any helpful advice would be appreciated

[acintas]

I assume you are trying to burn raw DV files. Nero doesn't handle DV files natively and hence recompresses the files to MPEG2 before burning to DVD. I wouldn't consider Nero to be good for anything other than burning stuff, so its likely Nero which is degrading the quality.

Its best if you properly compress the file to MPEG2 first. Try compressing with TMPENC first and use TMPENC DVD Author to author your DVD.