[b]Help please Low Quality Captured DV Images with Firewire[

[rdd48856]

I bought a MINI-DV Samsung DVP-73 camera. I bought a digital camera because they told me it would be easy to transfer image to my computer even thrue USB1.0! I soon discover I had to upgrade my PC so I bought an Athlon xp1700+, 256MB ram 40GB HD, 32MB display board, windows98SE, DIRECTX9a. I tried and discovered that software which came with cam only worked with xvga resolution(it was impossible to see all the menus) so I had to buy a new display. Only to find out that thrue USB it was impossible to have sound captured and that image were really HORRIBLE! So I had to buy a Firewire capture card which came with ULEAD videostudio5. But even now image have no quality when I play it in full screen mode! It's possible to see pixelization If I convert it to svcd(no matter what program) it looks terrible on TV. And the funny thing is that when I connect my camera directily to tv using a simple RCA I get a great picture. I'm starting to think in buying an analog video capture card! This is completly frustating...Please can someone help me?!

[RoopeT]

But even now image have no quality when I play it in full screen mode!

That's because MS DV codec plays it back @ 352x288. Open your DV avi in VirtualDub and you'll see the real quality of your avi.

SVCD bitrate might not be enough for encoding DV material, but you should get pretty decent results encoding with TMPGEnc, CBR 2520 ,highest motion search precision, bottom field first. Just keep youur original DV tapes so you'll have them when you buy your first DVD burner.

[rdd48856]

Well after lots of trouble to get virtualdub working in my PC I didn't find any difference. But....I read this www.100fps.com and that's it! What i'm seeing are interlacing artifacts. On TV this kind of problems are not so important, but I still see it a little bit. I will try to learn more about how to avoid it!

[NightWing]

Hope this helps. It may already be set but worth the check.

Open the a DV video in Microsoft Windows Media Player.
Select Properties under the File Menu.
When the dialog pops up select Advance tab.
Click on the entry DV Video Decoder in the list.
Check Full{NTSC 720*480 PAL 720*576}.
Check Save as Default.

Select Apply then Ok.
Close out the rest of the various dialogs including the MS Window Media Player.
Reopen. The quality should improve.

Saw this fix on either doom9 or Canopus Web BBS. Dont remember which right now. It comes defauly at half res out of the codec.

[dcsos]

By the way those interlace artifacts
CANNOT BE SEEN on a TELEVISION
only as you edit on a PC do you see them