need help to capture a digital video

[oedin]

i have a digital camera that dv out, i usually capture it by 720 x 576 frame.
can i capture it by 352 x 288 that is a vcd pal frame?
because i have try to capture by ulead video, pinnacle studio, premier, and windows movie maker, and i cant set it to avi 352x288 frame.
does anyone knows any or other software that can help me ?

[oedin]

does anyone here can't help? does anyone here can't solve my problem ?

[donpedro]

In Pinnacle Studio 8 you can select MPEG Custom capture mode and select resolution that you need.

[donpedro]

Or... Try to set it to Preview / Custom quality. Choose codec and resolution. But I am not sure if you can edit that directly without Studio asking you to recpature during Make Movie stage. But you might use captured AVI indirectly.

[oedin]

i need an explaination with that, because i work on avi file. i have studio dv 8, and it captured dv 720x576 frame. or it can select avi file but i didn't understand on preview capture? is it capture on harddisk?
maybe that is another program that could capture avi file 720x576 frame, do you know?

[donpedro]

OK. Give me whole info. What are you trying to do ? What is you goal ? Are you trying to make DVD from your home video or VCD ? or you need to create file that you will share on the web ??????????????

BTW... Reading Help can help sometime

[oedin]

i try to capture my vhs to my harddisk. i want to maintain the quality and the size on disk. so i choose the avi file. i usually capture it to dv pal first. then to make a smaller size and to defend the quality i rendered it to avi 352x288. but it makes a long time.
so i need to capture my vhs to harddisk on smaller size but i prefer the best quality. in other word i need to capture to avi 352x288. can you help?

[donpedro]

Try what I sugested. Capture in Preview mode and you should be able to locate new avi files.

[donpedro]

Small size and best quality.... ? This can't be done. Best quality for particular size ? We can discuss that (not me anyway)...

[oedin]

thanks anyway

[Nolonemo]

Since you are using your DV cam to capture, you are stuck with what the camera converts to, in your case PAL DV. That's what you will get into the PC via firewire. Once in the PC, however, you can encode the AVI file you captured to any size and bitrate you want (of course, should be legal for VCD or DVD!). But this happens after the capture process is completed. Hope this helps.