Capture codec and application prefs with Canopus ADVC-100

[VinnySem]

Because of its high regard in this forum, I picked up an ADVC-100 for capturing from my Sony Hi8 camcorder. I have a lot of film I want to put on DVD. I am having a real time trying to capture at DVD resolution with decent quality. I have tried Ulead VideoStudio 7 and DVD MovieMaker, Adobe Premiere 6.5, WinDV, and Windows MovieMaker. With every application except MovieMaker, I got lots of narrow horizontal black lines. MovieMaker gave me good quality, but I can't make a DVD with MovieMaker and the MS codec is incompatible with any authoring app I've tried.

Any help/guidance is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[upshot]

Have you actually encoded and burned it to dvd? What you are seeing may just be a result of playback...

[VinnySem]

I just got through reading some info on www.digitalfaq.com. I'm thinking those are just interlace lines.

This is my first foray into DV capturing, which is basically what the ADVC-100 is doing, an external convert from analog to DV. I'm going to give VirtualDub a whirl also.

[upshot]

I've had the best results using DVIO or iuVCR with my ADVC-100...

I'm kinda new too...

[Will Hay]

I just got through reading some info on www.digitalfaq.com. I'm thinking those are just interlace lines.

This is my first foray into DV capturing, which is basically what the ADVC-100 is doing, an external convert from analog to DV. I'm going to give VirtualDub a whirl also.

I doubt you'll have any look with Virtualdub.
'Capturing' with the ADVC-100 is the same regardless of the software you use.
Try DVIO, if that doesn't work, nothing will.
To echo the unanswered question from upshot; have you authored and burnt to DVD-r yet?
Will Hay

[proggy]

I got lots of narrow horizontal black lines

That is interlacing. You will not see this on you television when you play it back. The more motion you have in the movie, the more you will see these lines on you computer. Some playback software will deinterlace your movie when you watch it on your computer. Media player will just play it interlaced with the lines.