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chrisc300  
#1 Posted : Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:41:37 PM(UTC)
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I am fairly new to vMix. I am using it to record worship services at my church. I have it running on a Dell XPS with a Core i7 running Windows 7 64-bit, 2 SD Canon GL2 Camcorders connected with S-Video to Hauppauge PCIe capture cards.

I can't seem to get the video to save in a high quality format. The quality of the video inside Vmix looks a look better than what I am able to save out as a file. What settings would you recommend to get the highest quality output possible?
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#2 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 8:08:53 PM(UTC)
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What settings are you using? I think it is the dv avi file I use with desent results burned to dvd.
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#3 Posted : Friday, November 30, 2012 9:56:29 PM(UTC)
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I think I have tried DV format. I have tried several formats and can never get the video to look compatible to what is coming in. What bitrate are you recording at?
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#4 Posted : Saturday, December 1, 2012 8:43:07 AM(UTC)
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When choosing the setup you have the recording setup window. On the first tap which is avi I choose the DV Video encoder with the File Format of AVI. There is no bitrate here. From the AVI file that it creates I can use that in Adobe Encore and it makes the dvd. Could it be the program you are using to encode the avi file to make the dvd?

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#5 Posted : Monday, December 3, 2012 11:01:15 AM(UTC)
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Greg wrote:
When choosing the setup you have the recording setup window. On the first tap which is avi I choose the DV Video encoder with the File Format of AVI. There is no bitrate here. From the AVI file that it creates I can use that in Adobe Encore and it makes the dvd. Could it be the program you are using to encode the avi file to make the dvd?

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The DV Settings you described were worse quality than what I was using. I have bee using MPEG2, 720x480, NTSC 60i or 30p, File Format TS.
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#6 Posted : Tuesday, December 4, 2012 12:24:38 AM(UTC)
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Hi Chris,

Are you able to provide some screenshots to show the difference in quality?
Recording to MPEG-2 720x480 at 8mbit should output DVD quality that should only be slighly less quality than the raw input.
You could try upping the bitrate to 25mbit to see if the quality improves.

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#7 Posted : Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:54:39 AM(UTC)
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Hi Chris,

Are you able to provide some screenshots to show the difference in quality?
Recording to MPEG-2 720x480 at 8mbit should output DVD quality that should only be slighly less quality than the raw input.
You could try upping the bitrate to 25mbit to see if the quality improves.

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Martin
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Martin,

I recorded this Sunday's service with the bitrate set to 25 Mbit and the quality was more what I was expecting. Thanks! However, I think my audio and video may be slightly out of sync when I encode it with VisualHub to h.264 for podcast file and to upload to youtube. Here is the link to the service on our site and on youtube


http://fbcwilliams.org/content/video-player?id=379

I use VisualHub to combine the service video file with an opening video that I build in iMovie.
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