quality of sound HI8 TO DVD

[yorkshireman1959]

when capturing hi 8 to dvd using video 7 ulead the sound is good on the line in playing live but the played back captured files are sounding thin and laking roundness thats treblle and bass compared to the original sound
i converted the files to mpeg on capture but what is the correct bit rate and khz for capture of analouge files to digital. can i use a none compressed audio file so as not to loose quality of sound
or must i use a digital video camera to get top quality sound
thanks :(

[winifreid]

If you are capturing to avi, then you can select pcm (wav) and not compress. You can also adjust the record volume. What are you going to do with the files?

[yorkshireman1959]

burn to dvd

[winifreid]

So in the capture options section, select dvd and either mpeg or lpcm audio. The mpeg audio bit rate is up to you. Try 224. But lpcm is uncompressed and takes up a lot of disk space. If I were you, I'd try another capture program. I never liked ulead for captures.

[yorkshireman1959]

thanks will try that , may look at one of the pinnacal programs any suggestions ???

[edDV]

Pinnacle is no better than ULead VS for capture. VS8 is much improved, you might want to try the demo.

Meanwhile, try to capture LPCM 48KHz 16bit and see if you like the audio any better. If not, the problem is probably your audio card that you are using to capture.

If audio is good, you could give MPeg a try and compare.

[winifreid]

Didn't that card come with Winfast PVR? I prefer that over Ulead for capture. But if you want to capture direct to mpeg2, yo might consider windvr. It is a little buggy, but is great for capture to mpeg2. But if you are cpaturing home video, I suspect you want to edit them. If that is true, then use Winfast PVR and capture to avi using the picvideo codec.

[yorkshireman1959]

thanks gave it a go in WinfastPVR with MPEG2 and audio layer 2 got better sound than with Ulead video studio 7
would i still get better sound with a digital mic
thanks for the help