Hi, I recently purchaed a Sony camcorder (first time user) and am trying to get the recorded video onto DVD.  I transferred the video to my PC resulting in .avi files.  The video looks good when viewed on the cam and the .avi files play well in Windows Media Player.  I use WinAvi to convert to DVD.  Before I burned to DVD, I played the resulting .vob file in PowerDVD (full screen), but the resulting video is degraded and blurry.

The original files appear to be recorded at 352/240 resolution so I would expect a "full screen" resized video to be blurry just like if you resized a graphic beyond it's original resolution.

My question is how do I record video and burn to DVD while maintaining video quality?  Am I stuck with this small resolution (352/240)?  Am I expecting too much from WinAvi?

Some specs:

Camera uses NTSC 4:3 format
OS is WinXP
WinAvi:  I left most of the settings at the default

thanks for any advice,

mj

Maybe you can try to select the "PAL" for the target format.
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