Hi8 capturing problem

[hondashadow]

Hi everybody, I am trying to capture some video from my Hi8 camera. I am using a Trust USB2 A/V capture device (I know it's a "toy", but hey, it's affordable) on a 1,2 Ghz pc with about 300 megs of RAM.

I tried several settings to capture (using Ulead video studio), such as uncompressed AVI, huffyuv, mpeg, but I keep getting the same problem: when there isn't much movement, things look nice, but as soon as there's movement in my movie there's a lot of stripes and blocks. The original is fine, so that's not the problem.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[thecoalman]

Try using a low resolution AVI. Your machine is probably choking. Forget about using MPEG.

[edDV]

Hi everybody, I am trying to capture some video from my Hi8 camera. I am using a Trust USB2 A/V capture device (I know it's a "toy", but hey, it's affordable) on a 1,2 Ghz pc with about 300 megs of RAM.

I tried several settings to capture (using Ulead video studio), such as uncompressed AVI, huffyuv, mpeg, but I keep getting the same problem: when there isn't much movement, things look nice, but as soon as there's movement in my movie there's a lot of stripes and blocks. The original is fine, so that's not the problem.

Any thoughts?

You are looking at interlaced video on a computer without a deinterlacing viewer. It is supposed to look like that. You are looking at two fields offset in time by 1/60 second.

Burn a test DVD, Play it to a TV and it should look OK.

If you want it to look better on the computer, invest in PowerDVD or WinDVD. Usually feature reduced versions are shipped with DVD writers.

[thecoalman]

Duh! I overlooked the obvious. What EdDV suggested could be it as well. The aswer to your question though really depends on the dgree of striping and blocking. Posting a screenshot would help trmendously if the problem persists after you burn a test DVD.

[jdizzy40]

You spelled IPOD wrong it's $$$$ = MP4 (Lockbox).

[hondashadow]

I'll try burning a test on DVD to see how it looks later today, and I'll let you know the result.

Thanks!

[hondashadow]

Gentlemen,

the interlacing was the problem....

Thanks for all your help!