Play Off Final DVD - My Own Version

londonblue · Jun 12, 2015

I've been experimenting with a Dazzle. I've started with the first period of extra time, and have copied that onto my PC from the Sky box. On the PC the quality seems to be quite good, even if it’s not the HD quality it was originally recorded in. Part of the reason for that is because I used a three cable RCA to link the Dazzle to my Sky box. Annoyingly Sky + HD boxes don’t have an S-Video socket so I couldn’t use that.

However, once I had burned this onto a DVD I lost a lot of quality, and also seemed to lose the wide screen formatting so that there were black edges on each side of the screen, along with a squashed look. The loss of quality also meant the picture was quite blurred. In all, I ended up with a slightly blurred, slightly squashed image.

I have Lightworks on my PC, but for simplicity I used Windows Movie Make to top and tail the extract, and am wondering if it was the software that has caused the problem rather than the burning process itself?

Also, for some reason the pinnacle software that comes with the Dazzle creates a new file about every 15 minutes. That means the first period of extra time (with a small lead in and 2 mins of added time) is saved over 2 files. When you put these together in Movie Make you get a very slight break. I’m not sure how to stop this either.

Anyone got any bright ideas?

Chris S · Jun 12, 2015

If you can send me the raw footage you've ripped, I can edit it down and render it without losing quality if you'd like? Only problem is I imagine it'll take you half a day to upload the footage ;)

londonblue · Jun 12, 2015

Chris S said:
If you can send me the raw footage you've ripped, I can edit it down and render it without losing quality if you'd like? Only problem is I imagine it'll take you half a day to upload the footage ;)

Very kind of you, but it would take an age to email this over! Don't forget I can't send it by DVD because the quality will be rubbish...

Chris S · Jun 14, 2015

A USB stick perhaps?

Jam_Man · Jun 15, 2015

Dropbox...

londonblue · Jun 15, 2015

It turns out that the 4:3 aspect was actually the way it was ripped from Sky. I managed to correct that by using Lightworks to edit.

However, the quality was still pretty poor, which says to me that the issue is with ripping this from the Sky box.

The question is, would something like this help:

Amazon

I could take the HDMI cable and plug it in to that instead of the TV, and then use the S-Video cable to attach to the Dazzle instead of the composite video cable. Would that make the quality any better?