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Originally Posted by yelever
The original source file is an avi.
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While the source material might look good to the eye, an extremely large amount of crucial information has been discarded in the MPEG-4 encoding process. Not only that, but it's also gone through some serious preprocessing (resizing, smoothing, and goodness knows what else) to get it there.
Always use as good a source as you can get (DVD is only pretty good quality, HDTV caps are better, and DV is probably as good as it gets in the home market depending on the camera) for testing purposes.
What I'm saying is, a lot of the time you'll find that artifacts one assumes are caused by the re-encode to MPEG-1 are actually already present in the source. So always use the best quality source material for testing templates that are new to you.