Best way(quality ) to capture, burn video - Help!!!

[borisaro]

Hi, there!

I got Pinnacle Edition, and it allows to capture good (not very) quality DV video, nice and simple editing, but when producing MPEG, and SVCD then it's already low quality. I speak about 1 hour video, about 12 GB, also tried to split it.
I tried TMPGEnc for to convert AVI - MPEG, after that VCDEasy to bin, and finally Nero to burn - all this improved quality, but still the got SVCD is lower than avi, and the avi is lower than DV tape.

I got ULEAD, MAGIX. I don't care time, money??? - quality is the major issue.

Anybody help!!!

[Milo]

There's no magic solution here, SVCD resolution is lower than DV, and you'll loose quality with mpeg2 compression. So you will never get the same quality on SVCD as on your DV tape, whichever software you're using.
Check if you're already using the highest bitrate with TMPG (2520 kb/s)

Are you using a DV card or an analogic video capture card ?
You won't loose quality from DV to avi if you're using a DV card.

[daamon]

Hi borisaro,

I got Pinnacle Edition, and it allows to capture good (not very) quality DV video...

That's the root of your problem - whatever you do with the captured (transferred) video will never improve the quality - it'll only be as good or worse.

So it's important that the quality of the video you capture or transfer from your DV cam is the best to start with.

What type of connection are you using from your DV cam to PC? (USB, USB2, firewire, DV card etc.) What format are you capturing to? (I presume DV AVI).

Your DV cam most likely will have a firewire (or iLink / 1394) out port. Moving video using this method is not capturing, but transferring (a subtle, but important, difference): much like transferring a file from one directory to another - there's no loss of quality.

Firewire cards are dead cheap and you don't have to buy some super brand to get a good one. Check out the "Capturing" section under "Tools" for software that will facilitate the transfer of DV to PC. DVIO is freeware and gets alot of mentions, but there's others.

Hope that helps. Good luck...