newbie capture problem with pixelation

[stiltman]

Forgive me if this has been asked a million times

My setup
P4 1.6
1gb ram
AIW 9000 pro
on board sound
win2k

Capturing with ATI software and also tried VirtualDub
Source Sony 8M Handycam

I have some video with some fast action in spots. I followed Lordsmurf's guide for AIW and everything turned out pixelated during the fast action scences. When I capped the video with ATI's MMC with the VCD setting, it looked prety good. The DVD setting sucked.

I tried capping it in VirtualDub MPEG and it looked bad too.

I tried capping with both in AVI (huffy and PICVideo) both looked good, but when trying to open them in TMPGEnc-2.59Plus it said the file was not supported or corrupt. I even followed the guide for capturing with Virtualdub here and got the same bad file error.


First question. I'm capturing from 8M, so would anything more than VCD be possible, worth while?

Second question, can someone help?

Thanks

[Tommyknocker]

I tried capping with both in AVI (huffy and PICVideo) both looked good, but when trying to open them in TMPGEnc-2.59Plus it said the file was not supported or corrupt. I even followed the guide for capturing with Virtualdub here and got the same bad file error.

Click here.

[stiltman]

I tried capping with both in AVI (huffy and PICVideo) both looked good, but when trying to open them in TMPGEnc-2.59Plus it said the file was not supported or corrupt. I even followed the guide for capturing with Virtualdub here and got the same bad file error.

Click here.

Thanks!

Now to see if conversion looks better

[stiltman]

Found something that worked for me
VirtualVCR and huffy @ 720x480/29.97/44.1
Then I run it through TMPGEnc @ DVD NTSC template