Well, I have tested my Sony HC46 and captured results to AVI using either Premiere 1.5 or Sony Vegas 6 and it seems OK when played as an AVI ...BUT..
When I encode it to mpeg2(DVD .m2v ) using VEGAS(mainconcept) or TMPGEnc Plus and play it again ( in POWER DVD5) result seems to have lost :

A bit of sharpness and MOTION FLUIDITY which is annoying because AVI file seemed so fluent and pleasant to your eyes when you move camera rapidly (seems as it has 50 fps instead of 25) , but not so with MPEG result...

To put it in one sentence difference is like playing same game on Athlon 64 and Athlon 2600 ,on first it is fluid and fast , and on second is not meeting requirements and thus lower framerate and worse gameplay...That is my problem...my eyes cant focus well on that and is not cool to watch... feel of lower framerate...

I spent last day encoding one file in VEGAS/Mainconcept with various settings...20 encodings of 1.5GB file and none of them solved that non-fluidity in motion.

Am I doing somethin wrong here>?
Just want best of my 400$ camera and so far it ...well...not so good.

My softwre is Adobe Premiere 1.5
Sony Vegas 6
TMPGenc Plus
Adobe Encore
Sony DVD Architect
Main Concept DV codec (Installed)
What should I use for capture and what for encoding to get "same as AVI" (BEST)results???


Anyhow problem remains...
WHAT OTHER CODECS / DRIVERS ARE YOU PEOPLE USING FOR PLAYBACK AND VIDEO GENERAL ON YOUR COMPUTER, DO I NEED TO INSTALL SOMETHING THAT MAY IMPROVE PLAYBACK IF "PLAYBACK" IS THE PROBLEM INSTEAD OF BAD ENCODING?

MY SETTINGS:

Vegas 6.0:
PAL DV Widescreen 25fps
full-res. quiality :BEST
MotionBlurType:GAUSSIAN
Deinterlace method: Blend Fields or NONE

MainConcept(within Vegas): Template - DV Pal widescreen
interlaced,bottom field first
OUTPUT type : DVD
Profile: Main profile , Level:Main level
insert sequence header before every GOP
VBR: max-8 000.000 , avg.-6 000.000 , min-192.000

other advanced options are default...

When I drag & drop imported .AVI file in timeline window Deinterlace Method in Project properties goes to "Blend fields" is that OK?
What motion Blur type should be used?

TMPEGEnc is totaly crazy because wether I choose 4:3 or 16:9 it chooses what it wants and not very good as picture is streched...so long..BTW encoding in this program didnt solve motion fluidity either and I find MainConcept results better IMO.


IF .AVI file is playbacked OK ( in PowerDVD) , SHOULD I EXPECT NEAR THE SAME RESULTS WITH CODED MPEG2?

AGONY... cry.gif
Thanks again

HELP Please.

Marko