newbie needs help

[qwe]

hi,

wondering if any can help with this. I accidently recorded some very important birthday video to my memory stick. While viewing the mpeg2 video it is viewable but distort - sort of like a not-so-great quality streaming video.

I used virtualdub to get information on the video I have captured, and it seems to be in 720x480 with 29.970 fps.

However when i play it back on my comp. or on the LCD of my miniDV, it seems that the picture is very low in quality and the video is displayed on a small-er screen in the middle of a blue background (sort of like a picture-in-picture feature, with the blue background being the main viewable and the small screen being where in the video is being shown)

Does anyone know how I can edit the video to be in better quality and stretch the video so that it will be viewable on the screen of the tv, computer, and/or lcd of my miniDV.


Thanks,

qwe

[skullfullomagots]

As far as my understanding goes, you cannot improve video's quality. It can either get bad from good or at the best you can do is to retain it as good as it was. Else it will defy the laws of encoding, (I know they dont exist)

BTW, welcome to the forum.

[monzie]

And what resolution does your cam use to capture video when using the mem stick...it aint going to use full res is it (unless you have a MASSIVE stick.............)?...mebbe it might give you (and us) a clue.

PS is your stick BIG (wets self laughing).

[qwe]

thanks for the reply.

okay, do you guys know how i can at least stretch the video to be full screen?


BTY - Monzie I have a 256mb stick, not too big but extremely hard *wink* lol .j/k ...about the resolution - it is capture at 720x480 with 29.970 fps.

thanks again

[johns0]

Encode with tmpgenc and use the clip frame settings in settings/advanced,you can stretch and resize till you get a full picture but it proly wont be pretty.

[Supreme2k]

How long is it...the video, that is. I've recorded about 5 minutes on a 256 stick, and it was DV/DVD quality.
I've also done the same with my Kodak still camera. It recorded in Quicktime, but I still got between SVCD and DVD quality.

[qwe]

thanks johns0 ...i will try that and will repost how it came out.

Supreme2k: it is only about 20 seconds of video - but it is the most important part - the cutting of the birthday cake.

I thought it would come out in dv/dvd quailty since virtualdub said video was catupre in 720x480 with 29.970 fps, but it looks like a steam video with a distortion. Can't figure it out.

qwe