Need Capture Help in Oklahoma Area

[MickB]

Can anyone recommend a company or person in the Oklahoma City area that really knows all the ins and outs of codecs, and capturing 8mm analog and converting to DVD format? I would need them to come to my home to repair the problem

I posted many messages last year on my problem of degraded video capture but all the wonderful people here finally gave up as nothing worked. Thanks.

[Leoslocks]

By 8mm analog, do you mean film or video? If Video, is it Hi8 or just 8?

[MickB]

It's just straight 8mm video from my camcorder.

[Leoslocks]

First. the experience gained in you initial endevor will help if you choose to try to capture/edit/encode/author/burn a DVD.

Have a look at the DVD Recorder section. You would be amazed at the quality they are producing. The most difficult part would be connecting the camera and TV to the unit.

[Nelson37]

I read your earlier posts.

The horizontal lines are interlacing, this is normal, required, in fact, and will NOT be visible on the TV, only on DVD. Hare you burnt a disk using those files and viewed it on the final output device? Have you played direct from the camcorder to that device?

Whether for re-encode using AVI or real-time MPEG cap, you should use 720x480. This is closest to the native, FIXED res of the card.

The horizontal lines shown on the PC monitor give a false impression of TV output quality. You should be able to get very close to direct camcorder-to-TV connection quality. Possibly even better using filters but that is a bit more advanced.

[MickB]

Nelson37,

Thank you for your efforts. I have tried all those suggestions in the past, including filters. The bottom line is the DVD (displayed on a TV) is poor. Something internally is wrong. Someone once suggested a codec is corrupted and may have to reformat the hard drive to fix it.

One thing I have not tried is borrowing a digital video camera to see if that makes a difference after capturing.

[reboot]

A corrupt codec is hardly reason to format a drive.
We need a lot more info about the whole process you're using, before we can make recommendations.

[MickB]

If someone wants to try to figure this out, I can try to provide all the info again. It just got to the point that no one last year could help as much as they tried. I had run out of options. I was hoping that a codec could not corrupt enough to warrant a reformat. I need to record an event this weekend and distribute an edited verion on DVD. Thanks.

Mick