Perhaps I asked this in the wrong forum, or my previous question was too mixed up to understand.

I've been trying to find a good way to eliminate interlace lines from my 640X480 captures, but nothing seems to do the trick, to my satisfaction. Using filters in VirtualDub and Tmpgenc smooth out the lines, but the resultant image quality is compromised. This defeats the purpose of capturing at 640X480.

Is the signal coming from my Hi8 camcorder interlaced, or is this something that the ATI All In Wonder card does? I am using the S-video input. Also, is DV interlaced, or progressive?

Assuming that the signal itself is interlaced, what kind of tricks do you folks use, to eliminate or reduce the lines?

My second question deals with color loss. I noticed that anything I capture (I always capture to avi first) is in 16bit, regardless of what compression I use. (UYUV, YUY2, Huffyuv, etc.) Is there some kind of setting to capture to a higher color bitrate? I am using an ATI AIW Radeon.

Here is the some information regarding the rest of my system, if it's of any help.

AMD Thunderbird 1.1ghz
Abit KT7A motherboard
1024 MB RAM
Windows 2000 Proffesional
Service Pack 2
DirectX 8.1
Latest ATI display/MMC drivers

I usually use VirtualDub, to capture. I can also capture with Ulead VideoStudio 4.0, or ATI's tv tuner software, but I prefer to use VirtualDub.

Currently, I can get more than decent results, but I know I can do better. I'm sure it's just a matter of tweaking some settings, which some of you are bound to know how to do.

Thanks in advance.