Hi8 cancorder analogue capture problem, shakey picture.

[mixa666]

Hi,

Ive just recently captured some hi8 analogue camcorder footage, with an aver tv dvb-t capture card and iuvcr to an avi file, using the huffyuv codec, this was then edited using premiere pro then exported to disk (dvd, mpeg2) to watch on the tv. The problem is that once the footage was burned onto disk, it played ok on the pc, but on my two dvd players, very shakey, especially when the camera pans left or right, and the footage seems a little distorted towards the edges of the picture too. It must be something to do with the analogue to digital capture because I've since bought a dv camcorder, edited the same way using premiere pro and exported to dvd and displaying no shakeyness. Please can anyone help?..

thanks,

Mixa

[RoopeT]

Wrong field setting when encoding to mpeg2? DV avi is bottom field first but your Hi8->Huffuv avi is likely top field first.

[jlietz]

Could be that the field order is wrong. As an interlaced AVI, DV is usually bottom field first while the hi-8 capture should be top field first. I've never used Premiere, but there ought to be a way to set the field order of the source file. Do a search in the forum for "field order" for additional info.

[mixa666]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.... I'll do a search on field order its strange how the footage plays ok when using the pc as the source for playing the dvd footage, while using the tv as a monitor, and plays shakey/distorted when playing on a dvd stand alone player while using the same tv as a monitor. Maybe the media player's Im using on the pc corrects the field order for playback?, whereas the stand alone dvd players, which were cheap and quite old now, aren't capable of doing this.

thanks again,

mixa.

[mixa666]

hi,

did another burn using the upper field order option, and this solved the problem, thanks for your help

mixa