artifacts in the image after capturing

[ricardouk]

i have a sony mini dv camcorder. i use ulead video studio to capture footage using firewire cable,but....

after capturing footage from the camcorder and playing it back, i can see some tiny horizontal lines in the picture.

example: i filmed my hand moving in front of the camera, playing it back on the unit itself the image was good,but after i captured it to my pc i could see smal horizontal lines around the edges of my hand when i was moving it.

what is causing this?

any ideas

thanks

[daamon]

Hi ricardouk,

This is normal when playing interlaced footage (as yours will be from a miniDV cam) on a PC monitor, which displays a progressive image.

It's quite a lot to go into what they are and how they differ (interlace vs progressive) - some reading for you.

If you have WinDVD or PowerDVD, play the footage on there and you'll see it's OK - these take the interlace into account and play as progressive on a PC monitor, hebce why it'll look OK.

You're OK to use the AVIs in Ulead for editing etc.

[ricardouk]

thanks daamon

i was playing the footage using wmp10 and i tryed powerdvd and the artifacts dont show up

thanks.

one last question

im capturing straight to dvd is this the best way to do it?
or should i capture to another format and then to dvd?

is it ok to burn interlaced footage to view on a normal tv

[edDV]

thanks daamon

i was playing the footage using wmp10 and i tryed powerdvd and the artifacts dont show up

thanks.

one last question

im capturing straight to dvd is this the best way to do it?
or should i capture to another format and then to dvd?

is it ok to burn interlaced footage to view on a normal tv

Interlaced is what you want for viewing on a TV.

If you want to edit your DV material, or if you want best quality it is best to capture to DV format, then edit, then encode in a second pass. I recommend this for home movies.

For lesser captures (like TV material) that won't be edited or lightly edited where perfect frame accuracy is less important, then direct capture to DVD Mpeg2 is OK.

[daamon]

No problem, and edDV couldn't have worded the answer to your second questions any better...

[ricardouk]

Thanks you guys!

Should i keep ulead video studio or is any program outhere better?

i have tried virtualdub to capture it to avi but but it fils my hard drive after a while of capturing

thanks

[edDV]

Thanks you guys!

Should i keep ulead video studio or is any program outhere better?

i have tried virtualdub to capture it to avi but but it fils my hard drive after a while of capturing

thanks

Ulead VS is a good general program. For DV editing you might want to look at Sony Vegas Movie Studio or Premiere Elements demos.

[daamon]

Hi ricardouk,

WinDV is a good bit of freeware for DV transfer.