ATI Capture/LordSmurf/Huffy/Problems

[YukonXL]

Hey all. My girlfriend wants to do some video editing. When I try to capture a wedding video she shot from her Video8 handycam it has these horizontal lines throughout the video. Here are the specs from the machine I'm using:

AMD 1900+
Abit KR7A-Raid motherboard
768mb PC2100 ram
2x Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm harddrives in Raid0
ATI All-In-Wondows 8500DV w/Catalyst 4.1/MMC 8.8/Huffy 2.2.0

I've tried to use MMC 8.6, 8.7 and Huffy 2.1.0. The same thing happens with all. Clean install of operating system. Nothing else installed. I've gone over and over LordSmurfs guides. If I use MJPEG to but that maxed out my CPU and I had lots of lost frames. Here is a picture of the problem.



I put red boxes around the areas you can really see. Now, it doesn't effect just those areas. It's the whole picture all the time. Thanks ahead of time for your help.

YxL

[MrMungus]

Hey all. My girlfriend wants to do some video editing. When I try to capture a wedding video she shot from her Video8 handycam it has these horizontal lines throughout the video. Here are the specs from the machine I'm using:

Looks like normal interlacing.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t195272.html

If you convert the video to DVD and play it on the TV, it will look just fine.

[Hatz]

Is it an analog camera she used? If I remember correctly the same thing happens with some of my videos I put on the computer. But I think it looks like crap also. It looks kinda grainy and blurry sometimes. But then after I author it all, and burn it to DVD and play it on my regular TV it looks just like the analog tape does.

There could be a way to lessen those lines and everything but I am not quite sure how. I will follow this post anyways, because I would like to know th real answer.

Good Luck.

Hatz

[MrMungus]

Is it an analog camera she used? If I remember correctly the same thing happens with some of my videos I put on the computer. But I think it looks like crap also. It looks kinda grainy and blurry sometimes. But then after I author it all, and burn it to DVD and play it on my regular TV it looks just like the analog tape does.

There could be a way to lessen those lines and everything but I am not quite sure how. I will follow this post anyways, because I would like to know th real answer.

Good Luck.

Hatz

It's pretty simple.

Televisions use interlaced video. Computer monitors do not.

If you want to edit the footage for output to TV, leave it interlaced.

If you want to edit the footage for output to computer (for example, if you were to create a file for people to play on their computer), you'd want to de-interlace it before or while you convert it to whatever format (e.g., AVI, Windows Media).

And to answer the inevitable second question: Yes, video captured from tape and played on a computer will look darker on the computer than it did or will when you play it on the TV.

[YukonXL]

Yep, normal analog. It's a sony handycam, doesn't even have svideo, old composit connectors.

[lordsmurf]

That's interlace. Read the INTERLACE guides at lordsmurf.com