Hi all,
I have made a movie consisting of holiday pictures, screendumps from Google maps and title clips and worked in mp4 full HD format. Rendering in that format gives me a nice high quality movie.
Now I want to make a DVD from it but I can't get it the way I want it. What I get is terrible to see. The screendumps are barely readable. The maps show a portion of the trip with the places we have been. But as said, the text is hardly readable.
I use kdenlive 17.08.2. Who can tell me what the right settings are for a high quality DVD which can be burned to a disc? What do I need to do and where do I do it?

Please help. Thank you so much.

DeMus wrote:Hi all,
I use kdenlive 17.08.2. Who can tell me what the right settings are for a high quality DVD which can be burned to a disc? What do I need to do and where do I do it?
Please help. Thank you so much.

i'm replying because no one seems to have an answer (for now)
i've no idea.. i don't make a dvd since 2009.
usually some of my customers are creating the final rendering... and after that they convert to DVD or BluRay using a DVD burner suite (usually for free with a new WiN-PC.. software like.. PowerToGo...or similar... very small applications) .. on Linux i think that the approach can be the same.. use a DVD burner software that accept a single AVI as an input. ( maybe.. DeVeDE .. or DVDauthor ?)

Hello,

How did you generate your DVD files?
Did you use Kdenlive DVD export profile? It has a "quality" slider (bottom of export dialog) which you can push to maximum.
You can also convert your HD export with eg "ffmpeg -i your_export.webm -target pal-dvd your_export.vob"

What is the final bitrate of your video? (you can these info from kdenlive/clip properties, or VLC, or ffprobe, or mediainfo...) For simple scenes without much motion, having something between 2500 and 5000 kbps is a good range.

Please note that DVD resolution is fixed to 720x576 whereas HD is 1920x1080: with 4 times less pixels it is normal to have less details, texts must be large enough.
If it is an encoding quality problem, you have color bleeding and moving blocks.

Thanks everyone. In the mean time I managed to create a reasonable DVD where in fact there is only one part (8 sec.) which is less good and that is a screendump of google maps showing the part of the USA where we traveled. Since the texts there are small it is getting unreadable. The rest is, I presume, normal DVD quality, which when shown on a full HD computer screen less than perfect. I watched the result on our TV and it is pretty good so now I hope the neighbors who will get the DVD, agree with me. I will also give them the HD mp4 file to watch on the laptop. Unfortunately their TV can not be connected to the laptop since it has no connection for it.
I did use the slider and set it to max quality so I guess this is as good as it gets.

Thanks for the advice.