I am having unacceptable results also with converting to avi and then processing for dvd. I am using arcsoft showbiz 2 - it came with burner. Slideshow on tv is just terribly grainy. Spent several hours converting to other codecs - especially uncompressed (thought it might solve my problem) but uncompressed would not open in MS media player and was not recognized by arcsoft as a usable file. So, my client is left without a dvd. From a previous post, someone said Nero would produce much better results. I might be able to get my hands on this, but am extremley disappointed in the difficulty and problems with using any software to convert avi to dvd. Also, most of the codecs produce terrible results (I know, very program specific), but the uncompressed should work with anything and everything. Please give any advice you can. The dvd is lower quality is true, but not the problem - if all dvds looked like this, we would all still be watching vhs. While lower tv quality is one thing, adding noise and artifacts to photos is another. This is software. I can create a seperate slideshow in arcsoft showbiz 2 - standalone of my photos - and get very nice results. So the problem lies in the conversion. Note - I use p2e mainly for slideshows - has the features I want, so if my client wants a dvd, not an exe, I have to build it in another program. The 2 (exe/dvd) will never be the same show - I just can't reproduce the p2e slideshow on any other program - and having to manually rebuild it for dvd is unacceptable. Is there an answer?
