mpeg2 capture drama

[kandiman]

hi all,

Just need a few things cleared up

My current card is an ati aiw 9600pro and i only captured in avi and converted to mpeg2 off satellite.

I don't want to keep my video interlaced or edit the video that much..cropping etc, as the video will be for computer playback only.

Without using the de-interlace filter in ati mmc what suggestions do you recommend in terms of capture res etc, if i want to capture in high quality mpeg2, without too much re-encoding or editing?

Ne helper will be fab

[etecnifibre]

I personally do basketball games, Indiana Hoosiers. I capture at 5110Mbps, 160 kbps audio, no video soap. Just pick say the DVD setting, hit the edit button, and change the target bit rate and audio bit rates. My files usually end up around 3-4 gigabytes for a game. If I run over, I simply over the file in Ulead Video Studio and choose a smaller Mpeg2 bitrate to output at.

[racerxnet]

I hope you are not encoding a Mpeg file twice if it does not fit the first time.

[gshelley61]

If you are playing back DVD compliant MPEG2 files with a software media player like PowerDVD, there is no need to deinterlace. The software player will do that for you automatically.

[etecnifibre]

Why not? Last year we had a double overtime game, it was larger than 4.4Gb, so I opened in Ulead Video Studio, chose it to output at around 4500Mbps, voila. Went on the DVD perfect, looks good, etc.

[thecoalman]

MPG's will have a better quality if encoded from the source. In other words if you have one that was encoded with the desired attributes directly from the source it will have a higher quality than one that went from source to mpg to smaller mpg with the desired attributes.

Capture to AVI then make it fit or split the mpg and put it on two discs. But whatever floats your boat.

[etecnifibre]

It's not something that happens very often. Most of the time, my 5Mbps will allow the game to fit. It's during a few overtime games and double overtime games where I run into file sizes that are too big.

[thecoalman]

Well if you wis to maintain a better quality put those few games on two discs....

[kandiman]

thanx for the replies guys

if you capture in mpeg2 is there a tool which just does deinterlacing?

[pijetro]

kandiman wrote:

if you capture in mpeg2 is there a tool which just does deinterlacing?

gshelly61 stated:

The software player will do that for you automatically.

That's the ticket...Keep your interlacing, since your source was interlaced...