my picture quality watch my footage on tv is fine
but once i capture it & edit it then put on cd either VCD or SVCDthe quality is very poor
there is a fair bit of movement, animal running around but i thought the quality would be a lot better
si there something i'm doing wrong or is this a normal problem

i'm using ulead video studio 7
jvc dv 520 camera
asus motherboard & ge force 4 video suite video card
amd xp2700
120gig hd
512mb ram

any help would be appreciated

a friend has used a similar system & adobe premiere & putting onto video tape & the quality is alot better
thanks
mistymtn

How are you capturing the footage? If via standar MediaStudio then you are probably capturing as AVI (DV Encoder Type 1). If the quality of your original capture is poor (Blocky and Frames dropping Out) then try deragmenting your disks. If your original footage is fine and the end result (VCD or SVCD) then the potential is for a compression problem. To be honest VCD (Mpeg1) is always prone to problems (The quality and you can try and correct by tweaking the compression rate. Even then the quality will never be as good as your original AVI file. Mpeg 2 presents better compression options and you should be able to tweak the compression rate with better quality.