I have Pinnacle Studio with a/v input and recently just bought Snazzi III USB.
My pc's spec are P4 1,8 Mhz with 512 DDR and USB 2.0.
I captured from Analog camcorder which is in Hi8 format.
With Pinnacle, I captured to AVI files then using Studio 8 the avi was edited and
converted to MPEG 1 (VCD)
it looked like this :


With Snazzi III USB, I Captured to MPEG 2 (DVD) with the highest bitrate using Movie Mill
2.1 build 57, then edited the mpeg 2 file and converted to MPEG 1 (VCD)
the result as shown :





Why is it better picture with Pinnacle studio?
Both screen shots are from the AVSEQ01.DAT (File inside a VCD DISC)
Is there any setting that I need to change to achieve at least same if not better with the
old Pinnacle Studio Card?
Or is the Snazzi III USB just not a better product to do this VCD capturing?
Tried Capturing directly to VCD format using Snazzi III USB, edited and result is worse than
the method I use above.
I also have tried to edit the mpeg 2 using studio 8 and converted using TMPENC with highest Quality (SLOW),
Noise reduction activated, It is still no better than the one I captured with Pinnacle Studio