ok using ATI AIW Radeon DDR, what is best way to capture...

[ellandry]

I have a sony camcorder that has video of my 22 month old daughter I would like to make into video cds. Unfortunatly the only outs it has are composite. what is the best way for me to get the best quality for these VCDs?

[homerpez]

I happen to have the same board...

Te best way, obviously, is to plug in the Composite cable to the ATI patch cord. Then, the video goes FROM the camera TO the computer.

I'm just messing with you.

If you have the hard drive space, it's always better to capture with uncompressed AVI, or better yet, the Huffy codec. And not in ATI recording software, but in Virtualdub.

There will be little to no loss between the source (camcorder) and the video file you'll encode the VCD from. You obviously can't do anything about the connection, since it's Composite no matter how you slice it.

I would not suggest capturing with ATI software, particularly with MPEG 1 or 2. Then your source going into the re-encoding process will be lossy.

Better source = better VCD quality when you re-encode.

I also wouldn't try the "direct" methods that lazy people try, where they capture at VCD bitrate and resolution directly from the camcorder, on-the-fly. The quality is nowhere near as good as when you have a perfect source capture, and re-encode from that...

Hope I didn't confuse you, I went on a few tangents...

[ellandry]

how do I use the AIW with Virtualdub? Do I need a wrapper with XP?