One for the experienced

[JacquesDeRipper]

Following up my capture post (thanks to those of you who replied to that post), I have a further question about conversion.

Which will give me the better results:

1. Capturing from my 8mm Camcorder at the highest MPEG2 rate DVCII will alllow then encoding to VCD with Panasonic (I have a purchased copy and prefer it to TMPGEnc).

Or

2. Capturing from my 8mm Camcorder at the highest rate that DC10+ MJPEG will allow then encoding to VCD again with Panasonic.

In short will I lose more quality going analogue-MJPEG-VCD, or analogue-MPEG2-vcd?

I am sure of one thing, having used DVC USB to create VCD straight from the Camcorder for the past year or so, Hardware VCD encoding is never as good as either of the two options above.

Thanks in advance for any replies.


Jacques

[vitualis]

Hard to say in terms of quality...

In terms of video editing though, I would go the DC10+ route. AVI files are tend to be much easier to edit before encoding to MPEG-1.

Regards.

[tacosalad]

Of course, you could try it both ways and report the results back to us!

I think there might be a noticeable advantage to method #2, but that's partly because I don't know what the Digital Video Creator II's highest capture rate is. At 3 MB/sec, the DC10+ has an average of 155 bits per macropixel, a very luxuorious allocation. If your particular driver permits the DC10+ to run at 6 MB/sec, the capture quality could approach lossless.

The DVCII would probably need to run at 1 MB/sec or higher match the DC10+ at these settings. Beyond that, it's anyone's guess which combination would excel.