TO ALL Ulead Media Studio 6 USERS!

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I have spent most of this week trying to get both ADS Pyro and Ulead to do something about the poor quality output in Mpeg from the timeline of Ulead's MS6. The emails have been thick and fast all week.

So far, out of this has come a command to get more options available in the LSX based encoder - it contains a lot more options and almost gets it upto the LSX standalone V3. If you do the following you will get advanced features to come up and then you can do something more about the quality of the output.

Using a text editor open the file WINDOWS\Ulead32.ini and edit in the following command and then reboot:

Under [VIODRIVER] add ADVANCE=1

Give it a try and any comments will be appreciated on what you find.

I do not have VS4 loaded but it may also work with that as well if added to the appropriate ini file because essentually its the same timeline plugin as is used in MS6.

I am currently giving MS6VE a real work over!

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), March 24, 2000

Answers

Thanks for this tip; will try it. I have ULVS4 which indeed uses the LSX engine for outputing your movie as MPEG-1 if so chosen. The quality leaves much to be desired, though, and I'm aware it's not the fault of LSX (which gives better results than Panasonic under some conditions) but because there are no presets/options available for the LSX in ULVS4.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@yahoo.com), March 25, 2000.

EMartinez, thanks for the interest. I have all 3 versions loaded for testing at the moment, VS3 VS4 and MS6 and all now have the additional access associated with that switch mentioned above.

Incidentally if you do not load the MS6 DV patch during its installation you actually only get the VS3 level mpeg processing options, I do not believe this logic from a so called professional tool at 5 times the cost of the VS series.

The LSX logic is quite crazy also: when you select the VCD stream it cuts out the advanced options so nothing can be changed and the quality is, well...........

If you select the ordinary mpeg stream the advanced options are accessible and one can adjust things to improve the situation BUT the output with vcd paramaters used gives that error that I have been plagued with in the past, "non compliant 2 channel sound" from a stereo source.

Nothing is easy and I am in the middle of preparing a full 750M VCD with demostration files and project material for both LSX and Ulead which show how bad things are when compared to Panasonic and bbMPEG encodes from the same source material. The faults that appear in MS6 timeline encodes are not generated in VS3 or VS4. All of this is not only resticted to Mpeg-1, Mpeg2 is something to behold as well and quite unbelievable at this point in time. The only thing with any quality directly from the Ulead MS6 PRO timeline is full frame tape productions, frankly the rest is .......!

I will keep you updated off line as things develope as there is not much point in continuing or reporting the results of discussions here, who else cares about quality and taking on the big players is not easy. One really has to "put up or shut up" and the last is unlikely to happen yet.

I would appreciate an off line email that gives me some details of your impressions with mpeg source material as all my critism is from a professional NLE DV avi based system point of view and things could well be a lot worse in Mpeg capture systems.

-- Ross mcL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), March 25, 2000.


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