Picture quality problem from DV source

[Iceberg3]

Greetings.

First off, I'll admid that i'm a newbie in regards to doing this. I borrowed my friend's Sony digital camera the other week and captured 1.5 hrs of digital footage. I've tried making my own DVD out of it and have had success but the quality is not as good as I would like it. I originally thought it was from the MPEG2 I was getting after encoding. However, I'm seeing the same quality from the original DV source. As you might expect, the real problems occur when either the camera or when an object appearing on camera moves. http://wildfire.moo.net/~coast/test.jpg & http://wildfire.moo.net/~coast/test1.jpg are two screen grabs taken from the original DV source. The grabs look just like the video does when paused. These photos are a bit extreme for effect. I took screen grabs showing the worst quality I could find so that maybe someone might recognize what I was doing wrong. If no one has any idea what I could have been doing wrong, perhaps someone might recommend another software title to use to stream the digital8 tape footage to the hard drive (though I've read on here that that shouldn't really matter.) Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[racer-x]

When you say the quality looks bad, is that viewed on a PC or TV?
The pics you posted look like normal DV frames that are interlaced. If you run a deinterlace filter on them, they will look fine. The problem with looking at a DV AVI on a PC is the video is interlaced and the PC monitor is progresive scan.
The Video should look fine when viewed on a TV.

[tattytails]

If you deinterlace it with Blend (Double), it'll look like:


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