Poor DV Capture Quality

[gertk5]

I've discovered that video I capture from my Panasonic digital video camera is of fairly low quality, somewhat worse than VCR quality. Of course, after creating a VCD, the video is hardly watchable. Is there something I'm not doing right? Could this be a firewire issue? I've tried several methods of capturing the video from the Windows Movie Maker to Pinnacle Studio. Any ideas?

[vhelp]

gertk5,

what would really help is, if you were to post all your steps from start
to finish - or as much as you can, so we can get a better idea of what
is actually at fault there.

This way, we can help ya better
-vhelp