Bad results when capturing using ADVC1394

[DNICE_ONE]

Hi! I am trying to capture from VHS to DV using Canopus ADVC1394 PCI card. I have tried using WinProducer 3.0 (it came bundled) and also Adobe Premiere 6.5 but I notice that although I don't get any dropped frames but there is a very visible and consistent Green vertical bar at the right hand of the frame which is roughly 1/4 of an inch wide.

I understand that a distorted orizontal bar at the bottom of the frame occurs as a result of the capture card capturing full frame including the overscan area. But I don't understand why I am getting this vertical bar at the right hand side of the frame?

Secondly I noticed that my captured video does'nt look as good as my original analog footage. The colours look a little dull and dark and the look and feel of the video is not as the original video. I am using a JVC S-VHS deck with TBC + Datavideo TBC-3000.

Is it that DV quality actually looks like what I am getting or am I doing something wrong? Any help will be appreciated.

[Cole]

I have a Canopus ADVC-50 and the picture quality from my JVC + TBC is very good. I use the WinDV to capture mostly (on occasion Dvapp) and what I see on screen will be what the captured video will look like.

Give WinDV a go and see how you get on with that.

Regards the green bar, I wonder if the TBC may be causing that as some tapes do end up worse if using a TBC, although I have not seen this particular problem. As a guess, try different set ups: Datavideo off/JVC's TBC off, Datavideo on/JVC's TBC off etc...

As an alternative, have a look here if anyone has had a similar problem:
http://forum.canopus.com/

Hope this works out.

[DNICE_ONE]

Give WinDV a go and see how you get on with that.
Regards the green bar, I wonder if the TBC may be causing that as some tapes do end up worse if using a TBC, although I have not seen this particular problem. As a guess, try different set ups: Datavideo off/JVC's TBC off, Datavideo on/JVC's TBC off etc...

Thanks for your suggestion. Will give it a try. By the way my analogue footage is of top quality made on a professional VHS camera. Maybe, as you suggested, the TBC could be the culprit.

I wonder if Premiere simply captures the footage in DV without any compression or processing? I will give WinDV a try and see if the quality of the captured footage improves.

[thecoalman]

I wonder if Premiere simply captures the footage in DV without any compression or processing?

You should be capturing as DV-AVI, the card does all the work. It would be similar to using a hardware MPEG encoder. It really makes no difference what software you use to capture with, the only difference is som provide more opyions than others.

Don't judge how it looks by what is on your monitor, convert and burn a few test clips to DVD and judge them by how they look on the TV.