Which do you like better and why

[Capmaster]

Remember that a cap that does better with a test pattern may not necessarily do better for the eye factor. Good example: VHS captures. They look better when the VHS filter grabs the noise and does a slight smoothing. Otherwise it would look harsh.

On the other hand, straight satellite caps or DVD transfers do better with no softening.

And, again, your mileage may vary. What one likes, another may hate

[NightWing]

I agree it requires a multi test. Still vs motion vs noizy picture vs etc.

One other test would be a clip repeated with various types of noises { pic ones } to test quality and abblity of the encoder to take it all in. 0 to about 25% would do.

Also a 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 all of the screen moving.

Or who produces a decent test disk. I know the LD one are good for no compression bit but what is out there in the DVD catagory?

Been using the video essentials. Has both test patterns and a six minute clip section. I know there are others.

Same reason why its taken me so long to run some test on the ADS Pyro and the two DVD recorder picked up in the last few months. Setting up fare and ballance testing gets to be a test in it own right. I am not going to even go into the DV codec. Wont use the Canopus due to some bad stuff I found about it.

[Wile_E]

Bottom pic looks like it's interlaced, since you can see jaggy edges.

[junkmalle]

I prefer the one that looks most like the original film.

[BrainStorm69]

Man, VHS makes test patterns look pretty darn crappy...

Here's a cap from the same two VCRs of a test pattern that started out as a jpg played on my Panasonic S25 DVD player. Captured on VHS by my Mitsubishi HS-U781. Then Capped through the same process as the earlier caps on the other two VCRs.

Cap01


Cap02


And for those of you thinking that the .jpg doesn't look like the original .tga (basically a bitmap), I can tell you that they look very much alike -- I honestly could not notice any discernable difference between them. If you don't believe it, feel free to download the files from the links below (about 750K each).

4820a.tga

4662a.tga