Poor Picture quality - need help!

[Martin747]

I record DV with my Panasonic AG DVC 30, mini DV. I use Sony Vegas MS 8.
I have noticed when I render a DVD on my computer, that the rendered quality is not a sharp and clear as when I render on a different computer. What is the main cause of that? I can only imagine it's the video card. What are the minimum requirements not to loose quality in the render or burning process? Or is it the firewire card?

My video card is onboard:
- Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950
- Pixel Shader 2.0, DirectX 9.0
- Max. shared memory 224MB

Thanks!

[hech54]

DV via Firewire is just data....there is no change between computers.

[aedipuss]

capture the miniDV tapes to the hard drive with winDV. then import the files into vegas. use a bitrate calculator to determine the max bitrate you can use for the time of the video to fit on a dvd. the higher the bitrate the better the output will be in general (not to exceed about 8mbps to allow room for any type of audio).