I wonder if anyone can help me to understand why DVDs I create at home are such poor quality compared to the original footage and to commercial DVDs? I know the information has to be compressed and encoded, but surely this is also the case with commercial DVDs? Or do they have bigger capacity? Or better codecs? If so, is there any way to reach this professional quality?
I know that stuff shot on film is bound to look better, but I have TV shows on DVD that I know were shot on DVcam at best, and probably miniDV, yet the quality is as good as tape....
I am shooting on MiniDV, editing in Final Cut on a G5 PowerMac and outputting via iDVD and a superdrive or straight to a consumer DVD recorder, using DVD-R in both cases.
I know that stuff shot on film is bound to look better, but I have TV shows on DVD that I know were shot on DVcam at best, and probably miniDV, yet the quality is as good as tape....
I am shooting on MiniDV, editing in Final Cut on a G5 PowerMac and outputting via iDVD and a superdrive or straight to a consumer DVD recorder, using DVD-R in both cases.