Lines when capturing to AVI

[sierra055]

Hi,
Im having some issues when capturing video from a canon mv650i. When I capture the video via firewire to movie maker 2 i get what look to be interlace lines through the video. I tried this on my other computer and did not have the problem so I reinstalled WinXP.

Before installing anything I tested the capture, and then retested before I installed each patch and program. The capture worked fine until I installed DX9.

I have tried it on another computer (dual P3 as opposed to P4) and had the exact same results after installing DX9.

Does anyone know why this might happen, and how I can fix it? I need DX9 so unfortunately I cant just leave that off.

Thanks!!

[Sugar]

I am not sure I understand the question. Is the issue is the fact that you see line while capturing, which is not a problem or do you actually see lines once the video is captured and if so, do you have the same problem when playing the video with a different player (like Windows media player)?

What firewire card do you have? Can you change its settings?

Can you give us the software capture settings as well?

[sierra055]

Sorry for the confusion.

The problem im having is the lines appear in all video programs, and even when i burn to dvd.

I'm using the onboard firewire on my MSI 875 Neo2 mobo, but I have also tried using my other computer and a VIA chipset firewire card.

Im not sure which setting you refer to, Im caturing it to DV-AVI using PAL 4:3 in Movie Maker 2

Thanks.

[Tommyknocker]

Do the lines appear on your TV as well?

[sierra055]

After burning to DVD, yes they do.

[sierra055]

Here is a sample of what i mean. It gets much worse than this unfortunately.

Apologies for the size ~ i tried to cut it down, but it made the lines less visable.

[Sugar]

Your problem definitely looks like a progressive/interlaced type of issue or a field order type of issue.
Try to check the settings of your camcorder. Reading some docs on the internet, it looks like you can adjust them on the camcorder.
Check the capture setting of your software.
What you are lloking for is to make sure that the signal is captured as interlaced on both the cam and software.
The other thing is to check on your software that when it captures it uses the bottom field first. It may well be that the software is inverting the field orders. You would be seeing the second field on the first frame combined with the first field of the second frame.

[sierra055]

OK, I'll give that a shot.
Is there any reason why this would be worsened by DX9?

[sacajaweeda]

Those look like interlace lines to me. MM2 doesn't output MPEG2, btw.

[sierra055]

There doesn't seem to be any changeable video settings in mm2.
However, it seems if I play around with the setting on my video card it seems to help. This seems very odd to me.

The card is a radeon 9600xt with catalyst 3.10.

I wouldn't have thought the video card would have any bearing on dv capture?