DC10PLUS Converting Problem

[KilinKind]

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I'm using the DC10PLUS card that came with my Pinnacle Studio 8. (Hell, I thought it was a good deal) I'm trying to convert some old VHS tapes to DVD. Well the tapes I'm trying to do are some old concert footage, etc. One tape in particular is a compilation tape that has concert, interviews, etc. But all from the same source so there are no quality loss or improvement in the different scenes. Well sitting there watching in from the preview window it seems to do well through some scenes and on some others it will have alot of frame drops. Seems to get worse on black and white clips. I've also tried it through ULead Video studio and I get the same problem and it seems that about 95% of the time it does it on the same scene. Now if I put in an original tape (store bought) ... it will go through a 2 hour movie with about 5 or less drops. So I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if they found a fix for it. Or did I just buy the wrong card for what I'm wanting to do. The tapes I'm wanting to convert is old footage and not the best of quality but I want to preserve them so they don't get no worse. Also I want to ad that I did burn it to a DVDRW and test it and the jerkiness or whatever you would call it is there. Also on another tape which is a black and white concert.. watching it through the preview it will do nothing but freeze and maybe move a frame or two. I also tested it through Ulead and burnt it and it's there. But the music is playing just fine with it. Does anyone have any ideas? I know I will get more out of this forum than searching the Pinnacle website. Any help appreciated

Mike

[housepig]

the DC10+ is going to limit you to MJPEG compression on your captures, so if it is the capture card causing the problem, you might be up the creek.

however, it might be the capture application. try a different capture application, like Virtualdub, VirtualVCR or iuVCR, for example (more apps in the Tools section at left).

If the problem is your software, using one of these instead may give you better results.

[Quadzilla]

Hi Mike,
I've got a DC30+ and have the same problem. When the video goes from part of a compilation to another I get a few dropped frames. Maybe you could capture one segment at a time then join together later to avoid jerkiness? Sorry I don't have a fix. I use virtualdub

[NightWing]

The card is good but the capture in S8 is not too good. Eve though the multi segment was added by the author of AVI_IO.

Been using AVI_IO for years and really greate capturing using the DC10+. It always keeps the audio/video in sync.

The problem could be how the video was recorded. if it was a bunch of different clips recorded onto a single tape the sync can/will be a mess between clips and will cause drops. You may want to try a TBC to clean up the sync. But it may not help if the clips are that way. Tape is unstable at best.

Was wondering if the orginaly was shot in B&W. A lot of capture devices, if the color burst section is missing, most will asume it to be bad/damage video.

One last thing of note. The card has a 71 minute bug. IE it freezes goes nuts after 1H:11m:37s or about. The AVI_IO has the fix built in for that. You will loose a few frames when it get reset. Have recorded over 14 hours with a few drop frames.

Good luck.

[KilinKind]

Was wondering if the orginaly was shot in B&W. A lot of capture devices, if the color burst section is missing, most will asume it to be bad/damage video.

It was originally shot B/W and it's real good quality, I'd say a 9 out of 10. But for some reason it will not capture what so ever.. or even play through the preview. I d/loaded that program you mentioned above and I will give it a try. I doubt that it works because I even have the same problem through Ulead. The only thing that I can think of which I don't see really what the difference would be is that I'm running it with a/v cables I haven't tried it with s-video yet but I don't really see what the difference would be.