avid express ??

[Elak]

hi..
i have tried to capture my dv tapes and the qulity gets real bad..= a friend of mine told me that i had to have a video capturing card..? and that a firewire card wasnt enogh...and if i didnt wont to buy a video card the only program i could use was avid express? ive tried to find it but had no luck. So if you have any info about this please replay here

Thanx

/Elak

[ironwood321]

Hi,
Avid Express DV is sort of a top of the range proffesional editing solution. I don't think you need a high end package other packages are capable of capturing from DV over firewire.

In what way is you DV footage bad? Where was it recorded from a DV Camera? Are you using good tapes?

Also what are you using for playback?

[Allan55]

Hi,

a friend of mine told me that i had to have a video capturing card..? and that a firewire card wasnt enough

Not so. The camera is the video capture device (equivalent to a capture card in this case). The firewire connection just transfers the already digital video stream to the computer and can't affect the quality in any way assuming it actually transfers OK. In this case firewire is very similar to transferring a file from one HD to another.

If you playback the tapes from the camera directly to a TV is the quality OK? If not, the camera may not be digitizing to the highest DV quality. (I have no knowledge of camera specs)

You should be trying to make at least SVCDs or high bitrate XVCDs with the inherent quality of DV.

Allan

[Z]

there is also the "DV" decompresser thats can cause problems,,
like the apple dv de/compresser is CRAP as,

[Elak]

hi thanx for your answers..
Im have tried adobe, MGI vidiowave 5, Studio version 7, Uled DVD, Uled media studio Pro6,5, Uled video studio 4, Movie Xone 4.0, sclive i think this is all ive tried...And with all thes programs there is pixels all over..and the picture is not clear. The cam im using is a JVC GR-DVX88E and im using Sony tapes non of that shouldnt be a problem after what ive heard! The computer im using is a p4 1700 Mhx 256 Ram and 180 GIG harddrive and that should be enoght too..

And the qulity is great when i watch it directly to my tv from the DVcam
And ive tried to do both vcd and svcd and the qulity realy sucks....
what is wrong here?!?!
please help

Thanx

/Elak

[Z]

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