hi all, i am using a PVR-150 capture card to record from Vid8 and Hi8 tapes, with the final medium being video DVDs. the pvr-150 has a hardware mpeg encoder, so the capture file is an mpeg.
i'd like to use cinelerra to splice and edit these files. using mpeg3toc, i can import and work with these files just fine. but, of course, on render i'd like to lose as little quality as possible. as the file is already in mpeg, i shouldn't have to do any re-encoding for DVD (i think!). i've tried the rendering for DVD settings in the wiki, but that results in lower quality than the original. if i don't use a pipe command, the quality is much better, but there still seems to be some changes to the video - less vibrant colors being the most obvious difference. the color difference remains whether the color seeting is on YUV or RGB. so what should my settings be to get the video output from cinelerra to be as close to the original as possible? ideally, this would involve no reencoding at all. anyone else with a pvr-150 had any luck with with this? thanks!
