Hello,

I am having trouble with pixelation in my Ulead .vsp file and cannot eliminate it when I convert to an .mpg and ultimately a DVD. I went through all the right steps to "Share" the video, including selecting the "anti-flickering" option but the pixelation does not get any better on the .mpg.

While its totally fine on the camera, even the raw, unedited footage once its brought into the Ulead program is already very pixelated. I don't know why this is happening. Is there a setting within Ulead that can remove this? Something between the camera and the computer must be causing this to occur.

I have edited other movies with the same way with Ulead before and it has been fine. My camera is a Panasonic PV-GS59.

This video is for my sister's Sept 14 wedding so I am hoping to get this resolved in time. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Are you capturing the video from the cam via firewire?
If you are, are you capturing to DV AVI or MPEG2?
Load the vsp file into the timeline and right click on one of the raw files and select properties. Post them back here for a start.

Hi Lance,

I really appreciate your help.

Are you capturing the video from the cam via firewire? YES

Are you capturing to DV AVI or MPEG2? When I brought the footage into the camera, it did not prompt for a specific file type. Based on the properties, below, it looks like an MPEG 1.

When I went to share the footage, I selected the ‘NTSC MPEG2 (720x480, 29.97 fps) option

Here are my properties from one of the raw clips.
File:
Name: C:\Documents and Settings\Rebecca.PERSONAL-8268FA\My Documents\Ulead VideoStudio\9.0\uvs070513-018.MPG
Size: 6,962 KB
Duration: 27.628 sec

Video:
Type: MPEG 1 Video
Frames: 828
Attributes: 24 bits, 720x480, 4:3
Rate 29.970 frames/sec
Data rate: 1800 kbps

Audio:
Type: MPEG Audio layer 2 files
Total samples: 1,218,378
Attirbutes: 44100 Hz, 16 bit, stereo
Layer: 2
Bit rate: 224 kbps

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Hi Rebecca,
Well that would explain the pixellation!
For some reason you have captured to MPEG1 which has a very low bitrate and is only suitable for creating VCDs.
How or why VS decided to change to MPEG1 is anybody's guess!
As it is the footage you have on the computer is useless for creating anything that will look good.
You are going to have to re-capture the footage from the cam. This time, when the cam has been detected and you are ready to go, check to see that the Ulead DirectShow Plugin is selected by going to Tools, Change Capture Plugin and select Ulead DirectShow. Then capture.
You will see from your existing files that the data rate is 1800kps which isway below the at least 4 to 5000kps minimum you need for DVD MPEG2s, high quality will run up to around 8 to 9000kbps.
That is the source of the pixellation, the computer and software were trying to compress your video and capture at the same time.

Edit: I just realised all the above applies to VS10 or below regarding the capture Plugin. If you have VS11 we may need to explore other avenues. Let me know how it goes.

Thank you for solving my problem on this! I am assuming this means I will need to reedit the footage entirely? I was hoping on an offchance that VS could recognize the new captured footage as the same footage that I've already edited and just replace it once I've deleted the old mpg1 footage... I know that is probably a long shot.

I am actually working from VS9. Will the capture commands still be the same?

Yes everything I wrote applies to VS9.

Before you capture, erase all the old MPEG1 files you have on the computer. Then re-capture to the same folder, there is an outside chance that VS may name the new files exactly the same way as it did in the first place. Then open the vsp file you already have, you never know, it may just link up to the new stuff!
Good luck!

Edit: Ok I now realize I was delusional when I thought VS might re-link to the newly captured files. It won't because the existing files are .mpg and the new ones will have the extension .avi.