How good is "good"???

[greatescape]

Fairly new to DV but doing pretty good so far. Had problems with frame drops but installed dedicated hd and now "0" drops. What I am wondering is how good is "good" or "great". I know this is subjective and I may be so close to as good as I can get that I might be wasting hours researching and trying to do better. I am capturing DV from miniDV camcorder using Ulead Video Studio 6 with 1.1 Athlon, 512, Yamaha burner, and dedicated hd, firewire input. I would say that my VCD is about 90-95% of preview quality. I am getting good color, etc....just a little pixilation that is barely noticeable mainly in scenes when I move the camera too fast. Should I experiment with performance settings, try new software or be happy that I got so close right in the beginning?? Thanks

[D_Knife]

Without getting into technical quality issues

"good" is where you look at the video and say - "Hmm, I can live with that and watch it without bitching to my friends/family"

"great" is where you look at the video and can say "Wow, that came out much better than I thought"

I think you can work out - "crap"

[EricB]

"good" question as they say. Without going to extremes, you should be able to get good results with DV using xVCD or even SVCD. When I started using DVD-R, I finally saw great. Basically looks like the original DV tape played into the TV.

[red_cushion]

Referring to your 'what is great' question...

Great is when you can watch the input and eventual output side by side and ask a friend to guess which is which.

When you've seen it, you'll feel like king dong.