If the initial video is small, then it will be blown up to fit the screen
size of 720x480 NTSC, so will look pixelated and is exactly the same as
looking at a picture at 400% or whatever.
Another reason is if you have too long a movie, it needs to compress it to
make it fit on the disc. 1 hour is ok, two hours will start to look poor.


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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Mitch" <Mitch@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1AD68D2C-0A70-48C5-B10A-ABE062D4697E@microsoft.com...
> While I'm asking questions, if you'll excuse someone who is interested in
> this stuff, but doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about most of the
> time,
> I guess I don't really understand exactly what "DVD" is! I used the
> software
> that came with my laptop, Sonic DigitalMedia Plus v7, and burned a couple
> video files that I had on my laptop to make a DVD. I don't remember if
> they
> were .wmv files or MPEG-2 files, but after my DVD was finished and I put
> it
> in my player, the "movie" was totally pixelated as if I was just watching
> it
> on my computer at about 400 or 500%. Is this normal; did I do something
> wrong, is my app not made for DVD authoring, etc? As I said, I am pretty
> naive about all this, but want to learn. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Mitch
>
> PS...I did read the posts about the different DVD authoring apps you guys
> recommended and I am looking into it, just don't know if it's my app or if
> something I'm doing, or if to make a DVD, you need a certain type of file.