DV transfer quality in Lets Edit 2

[ripcurl]

I'm having quality problems with DV camcorder footage transferred into Canopus Lets Edit 2. During panning scenes there is quite noticeable horizontal striping, almost as if the fields are out of phase.

I am transferring from Pana NV-GS3 using quality firewire cable direct to PC's port (P4 3.2 with VIA controller). Have also tried passing through my ADVC-100 into different firewire port, with same problem.

Windows Moviemaker and Pinnacle studio 7 or 9 do not show same problem, so I guess rules out hardware. Have tried to change 'capture' settings in Lets Edit but only seem to be able change file type for import i.e AVI type 2 or ref AVI. Video is PAL, PC is HP MediaCentre M7xxx

Anybody had similar probs or any ideas on how to fix ?

[daamon]

Hi ripcurl,

Welcome to the forums.

Try transferring from cam to PC via firewire, but using WinDV - it's free and is regularly recommended. I swear by it...

Here's a recent post of mine on one way of configuring WinDV:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1387878#1387878

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1255226#1255226

Hope that helps. Good luck...

[guns1inger]

At a guess the striping with be interlacing, and is normal. Look it up in the glossary. Some software deinterlaces on playback, some doesn't. If the software doesn't you will see the stripes. If you destination is DVD, then this is not a bad thing, and you should just continue on regardless, comfortable in the fact that once you have transfered it to DVD, it will look fine on your TV.

[ripcurl]

As suggested I used Lets Edit to transfer and then produce an Mpeg2 from a DV clip, cheerfully ignoring the interlacing problem in the preview window. I used TMPGEnc DVD author to produce a DVD, played back on TV - and everything was fine, no quality problems at all.

I also used WinDV and Pinnacle to transfer the clip, encoding to MPEG2 in Procoder. Both of these worked equally as well, resulting DVD was also fine.

So now I'm spoilt for choice all three routes produce the same result!

Thanks for the advice guys.

[daamon]

Glad you all OK.

If you want to preview interlaced material on the PC, use something like PowerDVD or WinDVD - they display interlaced footage on a progressive display (your PC monitor) without the horizontal jagginess.