I have Two questions/One about Sonydig.cams/2nd capturing?

[spankey]

Ok-

I have had a sony trv-140 now for about two months. IT takes an excellent picture(video that is) but I am suffering at the PC end......

OK!

First I am using either Studio DV or The sent with the camera Sony's pixela.I have the actuall sony editing kit that came with a pinacle card and studio dv. Both capture to AVI and both end results look the same!!!!!

I did NOT know about the TV's being interlaced and the pc monitors are NOT interlaced!!!. That would explain the noise or grainyness at motion scenes...

I also set my settings in windows media player to the dvd settings or DV settings to full resolution and it cleared up much better....

I tried virtudub but it always locks up on me or does NOT respond... Is there a tutiral out there for virtudub for captuing DV?

MY second question is this? What DV capture codec do people with sony cams use for studio dv??? I tried 2 and both were the same result??My latest update of studio shows like 10 different codecs?


I played the "captured" avi file thru my TV out card and it was clear on the tv. But when I encoded the avi file to mpeg using tmpgnc its very noisy? Same for the output on the tv? DO I have to DE-interlace it as I encode to mpeg and if so HOW?

Thanks for your time and I know this has been asked alot. I did a search and found a great topic with 32 replies and got some great ideas... But I need some more info....

Spankey

[bugster]

Hi, I have a Sony PC100 DV camera. To transfer movies to my PC I use a generic (i.e cheap) firewire card and, believe it or not, I use microsoft movie maker on XP to transfer the data to my HD. Just select the appropriate DV format (NTSC or PAL) for your camera and go. Do not allow MS Movie maker to do scene detection and you end up with one large avi file in full DV resolution and quality. You can then edit with your favourite application. The codec selected may affect playback quality but capturing is in effect a data copy so as long as your capture app doesnt try and encode on the fly during transfer (which will happen if you select a lower res/bit rate codec), then no quality loss will occur during transfer.

I dont think virtualdub will capture DV, it should be used for analog-digital captures whereas DV is already digital.

TmpGenc has a de-interlace filter on the advanced tab but virtualdubs is supposedly better. Use it AFTER capturing to HD.

[Tommy]

I can't answer all of your questions....... but Why do you want to use virtudub for DV capture? If you transfer your DV video from the camcorder to the computer via Studio DV it will place the dv in a avi file somewhere on your harddrive. Vdub will read this file, so if you just wanted to run a few filters on the file with out going though studio dv you can do that. However if you want to use vdub to get around the 4gb limit you might want to try AVIIO (not free) or ScenalyzerLive. Both can be found in the tools section.

DV is not really captured but transferred to your computer via the firewire.

What do you intend to do with your avi? Turn it into a vcd? If so then yes you might want to deintelace. You can do this with vdub or if you like you could also do it in tmpg. There are guides in the how to section on how to do this....... 8) 8)