DV Capture Quality

[ssss25]

Hi,

I use Ulead VideoStudio 7 to capture using DV from my Sony Camera.

I want to use the capture to create a DVD for our home made videos, but I am wondering, what has better quality, DVD or DV?

I saw in Nero that there are different qualities for DVD. If I record a DV, and then save it in high quality DVD, am I wasting space on the DVD? What is equivelant so that I don't waste space, yet I don't lose DV quality that I recorded from my camera...

Thanks for any hints or advise.

[poncho]

I can talk to You about my experience...

I capture video with WinDV (freeware....really good software).....
So You will have a video DV...then I use TMPGEnc for convert to mpeg (DVD quality)... You just have to take the settings in this software......at the end of this point you will have a really good video....

Now I use DVD Lab for create menu and create the files vob... (wich You need for burn a DVD)

So..with DVD Lab You will have at the end (You can create menus, chapters,all You need)....the vobs..

Just open Nero...DVD...DVD Video...put all the files created with DVD Lab in the folder Video VTS of Nero..

Burn...And ¡Presto!...Finish..

You will have a DVD with an excellent quality....
I saw it....

Ok lets talk about my experience in troubles doing the talked before...

With Win DV You wll "copy" the video from camcorder to HD....has it (You choice DV type -2, every one recomends that), I have problems because the video ,from time to time, the video that a "copy" to the HD, freeze, that means I lost some frames...My conclusion is My HD of 5400 rpm is not enough fast for that task (I try closing programs that I dont use, DMA , etc....so I willl buy and other HD faster)

With the rest I dont have any problem...

One point....once you have the video encoded (after TMPGEnc)..You can use Ulead Video Studio or Ulead DVD Maker for create effects and thing you need...

I hope be helpful..

Good look

[albatros]

DV is your original compressed movie but less compressed than DVD.
one hour DV = appr. 14GB
one hour DVD (for instance compressed in Mainconcept CBR 8000 kbps) = 3GB to 4GB
less compressed = better quality
DV is original everything compressed from original is quality loss

The perfect solution is to find a solution:
After you "copy" DV to PC compress it to DVD with best possible quality but you will have to accept that there is quality loss after compression

[ssss25]

Thanks both of your replies...

So use DV type 2 when capture, and since DVD is compressing, I'll have some loss...

Thanks.

I used highest quality in Nerom which gave me about... 40 or 50 minutes in 40 GB... But my player player plays for 2 or 3 seconds and then the picture freezes!! Is it just my player doesn't support the high quality DVD format?

When trying to play the DV on NERO preview on my Athlon 1800+ 256MB RAM, my picture is also very slow... But the CPU seems ok. Does this have anything to do with it?

I may try WinDV like you suggested poncho...

TMPGEnc is a GUI or command line? Is it hard to use? What DVD options do you use? Best Quality?

Thanks.

[albatros]

I don't know what do you do in Nero to get 40GB of 40 minutes.

If your camera is DV or miniDV you should have 14GB captured of 60 minutes.

Try any software that captures via firewire. Firewire is a special cable.

I use WinDV for capturing. To avoid creating as many files as many scenes you have put zero in field "Discontinuity treshold (sec)". You will capture single file.

Applications: TMGenc, Mainconcept encoder, Cinema Craft Encoder, Procoder are encoders to encode your file to MPEG2 then you can use IFOEDIT to easly create DVD files to burn with any burning application.
Which you choose is up to you. One costs more then other and one gives better quality then other but there is huge discussion in forum. Search forum. Try small part of your movie.

I am now thinking of choosing one encoder for my movie becouse encoder gives the quality of compression. Please look at posts for encoders.

Please look at the guides searching for TMPGenc and ifoedit if you would like to see how it works with it.

[ssss25]

albatros,

Sorry, I meant 4GB after I convert to DVD...

When I capture, you are right about 14GB per hour in DV format. But when Nero adds to DVD, best quality 50 minutes or so takes about 4GB..

I'll try other apps.

Thanks.