transferring from my sony TRV140 digital 8, quality sucks

[kiddk]

I just transferred my digital 8 from my sony to my computer and burned to dvd and the picture quality is not good at all compared to the original tape. I used intervideo's windvd cinema platinum 2. Any advice please. thanks

[Baldrick]

try many tooooooooooooooools...one method:
"capture" the dv with windv
convert to dvd mpeg with tmpgenc plus, mainconcept mpeg encoder, cce basic or canopus procoder
author to a dvd with tmpgenc dvd author

[dike]

are you using USB on transfering ur movie to ur pc?? am using firewire on transfering & pinnacle studio 8 for editing/rendering/burning, got a good quality vids

[kiddk]

I am using firewire

[GeorgeW]

what format did you capture to on your hard drive? dv .avi's, or on-the-fly mpeg encoding? What are the attributes of your captured videos?

what are the attributes of your project/disc (PAL or NTSC, mpeg-1 or mpeg-2, resolution, bitrate, audio type, etc...)?

[kiddk]

I am new to this but I beleive it is avi, windvd captues the video and allows you to author and burn. The problems I am having is that the video quality is very bad and when I try to create chapters the chapters have no audio, I am now using windv but I see that it split my captured video into 5 files.