Poor quality DV capture to AVI

[JMBoers]

Hi, I have a Sony Digital8 DCR-TR7000E (PAL) video camera and am trying to transfer the video to my PC using firewire.
Unfortunately the image I get on the PC is not at all what it is on TV when played directly from the camera. The image is unsharp, like a not totally well tuned tv station... I am saving the file to AVI, so no compression or whatsoever... I tried several capture programs but the result is always the same. I am using a 1.8 Ghz PC with 512 MB RAM a 7200 rpm 80 GB harddrive. Can someone help me out?

[Coluph]

It sounds like what you may be seeing is just noise that is likely on your source tape, but because the TV is of a lower resolution than your computer monitor, you may not notice it on the TV. Assuming you are going to convert this to mpeg2 for dvd, running a noise filter on the video as you encode it will likely get rid of most of it. Also depending on your monitor resolution and software it may be resizing the video to fit the window, which sometimes makes jaggies appear on straight edges. Interlacing is also noticeable on the screen but will dissappear when played on a TV.

What were you looking for as an end result? Were you capturing to play the movie on a computer, or on a DVD player?

Hope this helps you some.

[JMBoers]

Thanks for the advice I will give it a try.
I want to use it for TV so I gues I should not de-interlace it.