Capturing from Sony Handycam question

[y2khameed]

My camera is a Sony Handycam DCR-HC30E. My PC is a Dell InspironTM 6400 laptop with Intel® CoreTM 1.83 GHz Duo Processor.

I tried to capture video from my camera using IEEE cable but I am not satisfied with the result. I think that the motion is not clear.

I tied capturing the clip with three different software WinDV, Windows Movie Maker and Adobe Premier Pro.

What do you think the reason is?
Any suggestion or comments will be appreciated.
Thanks in advanced.

[stars]

Hi..

When you transfer the video to your computer with firewire, its the same
data that is on your DV tape. The distortion in the motion you are talking about is the effect of interlace.

All videos are in interlaced format (almost all).You wont see this effect on your TV...

The data rate of the video that you have transferd should have approx 25Mbit/s, it wont get better than this.

stars...

[edDV]

Use a deinterlacing playback program.

A good one is PowerDVD. VLC is free and does well. Experiment with it's various deinterlace modes for the best picture on your laptop. It defaults to playing a single field.

The video itself should be kept interlace.

[anty2002]

Hi,

I am also using same camcorder. When I used WinDV first time to capture video, I had same problem with moving images/objects. The corners of moving objects were blurred or distorted.

But when I used Windows Movie maker, I could avoid all problems. I tried different transfer rates and image quality. With high quality video, I didnt face any problem of blurr.

Anty

[edDV]

Hi,

I am also using same camcorder. When I used WinDV first time to capture video, I had same problem with moving images/objects. The corners of moving objects were blurred or distorted.

But when I used Windows Movie maker, I could avoid all problems. I tried different transfer rates and image quality. With high quality video, I didnt face any problem of blurr.

Anty

Naw, you weren't getting DV video in that case. You were encoding to WMV which by default deinterlaces the video and lowers the quality. If you wanted WMV this is OK, but if you want to preserve DV format for editing (i.e. same data as on the tape) you will do a transfer to a DV-AVI file.

[y2khameed]

thanks all for your replies.

I tried even getting DV formats from Windows movie maker but it gave the same result.

I am not using a Desktop I am using a laptop does this matters?

[Richard_G]

Using WinDV you will be transferring identical data from your tape to your hard drive. Any distortion or degradation of the image you see isn't on the video, it is being put there by whatever software you are using to view it. Using Windows Movie Maker, you will be encoding the file to wmv format so you will see degradation as it is an inferior compressed format.

[edDV]

Assuming you are using Windows Movie Maker 2,

1 Capture from Video Device
2 Name a capture file
3 Digital Device Format (DV-AVI)
4 Capture Manually

When you export your edit, they make DV-AVI hard to find.

1 Save to my computer
2 Other Settings - DV-AVI

or use "Send to my DV camera" If you want to record back to tape in DV format.

The DV-AVI file can be imported into most DVD authoring programs to make a DVD.

That said, I still prefer to use WinDV myself.