VHS into MiniDVcam

[kitty]

I captures some public service cable TV VHS footage into my Sony TRV900 miniDV camera. I then output the DV via firewire into Pinnacle Studio DV to make a VCD. The quality was not great with both the internal Pinnacle MPEG1 codec & TMPGenc12j with VCD template. I did not play with the interlace feature - is that needed when it is already on DV? Any other hints?

Thanks, Da Kitty

[Tommy]

So you captured some video from VHS to your Sony TRV900, then to your computer via firewire. In tpmg you could use the deinterlace option, I normally do. I think its set to merge the frames. I can go check later to be sure. I've noticed that studioDV doesn't produce the greatest VCD mpeg, and I think its just a weakness of the program. But yeah I would use tpmg. As far as the quality goes it's not going to be very good. If you were expecting something similar to what you get from home videos shot with the camcorder its not going to happen. The dv cameras will convert the analog picture to digital but the picture is still going to be of equal (or less) quality to the original analog. My suggestion is to play with maybe a 30 second or 1 min clip in tmpg and see what kind of encoding options make the video satisfactory to you.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Tommy on 2001-10-02 11:32:52 ]</font>

[ktnwin]

Do not use Studio DV to produce MPEG, the quality is horrible compared to TMPGEnc (excellent quality).
Since your source video is VHS, the resulting MPEG quality is just OK. Watchable but nothing to be proud about.