Capturing from Laserdisc using Visiontek Extasy + Premiere 5

[misterchuckles]

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for me on a problem I'm having with capturing video from a laserdisc player. Here's the hardware/OS specs first:

Dell 8200 series
2.53 Ghz P4
512 MB RAM
Visiontek Extasy GeForce 4 4600i
Windows XP Home

I have my laserdisc player hooked up to the capture input device on the video card using a new, shielded S-video cable. Previewing the video looks top notch, but when I record using Premiere or even AVI_IO, I get very strange lines and discoloration in motion video, almost as if I'm recording in hundred or thousands of colors rather than millions+.

The pics I'm linking to illustrate the issue better than I can describe it:

http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/priv/12345/starwars.bmp

I saved it as a BMP in 24 bit so there would be little loss. As you can see, when the camera moves or when there is movement on the screen, the frames show blurry, washed-out images. As in the second image below, (both are from the Empire Strikes Back ) the stairs and background look normal but the person falling down the stairs is blurry, with striations.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong with the capture that would be causing this to happen? I'm using no compression, just raw AVI. When I use Premiere, I use the following settings for video:

no compressor
depth: millions (millions+ causes frame loss for some damned reason)
frame size 720 x 480
frame rate 29.97

And these for capture:

capture format: video for windows
FPS: 29.97
Resolution - 720 x 480
Pixel depth - UYVY (only option)

Video Device: nVidia WDM Video Capture
Source: S-Video
No compression

If anyone has any ideas at all, please let me know. Thanks so much!

Cheers,

Charlie

[leffe]

Its called Interlaced video instead of progressive that computers use tvs show interlaced video withouth the lines (if u gonna se the file on dvd hocked up to tvset u dont need to bother to take it away).

But if u still want to take the interlacing awat for watching on computer or so.
You can try to open your captured avi in virtualdub and add de-interlace filter and shoose blend. Try this at youst a little secense of the movie cus i thinklk its gonna take some time.
When u found an setting that let u remove the interlace you can frameserv the avi to tmpgenc and encode to svcd