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  1. I am trying to capture some DV off my Sony DCR-TRV120 cam using a ADS tech Pyro BasicDV firewire host card. The quality of the capture seems very poor even when I use the "best quality" settings in Adobe Premiere 6.0. What am I doing wrong??? is my firewire card the problem????
    please help.....
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  2. ...a question that has been frequently asked this past couple of weeks.

    I'm assuming you're playing it on your computer. If your camcorder has DV IN enabled, why don't you play the AVI from the software's timeline, with your camcorder connected to the firewire. That way, you should be seeing the video from the LCD (or viewfinder) of your camcorder. What you'll see is what you have. If you're still not satisfied, if your camcorder has analog out, connect the analog ports to a TV, and watch it from there. The point is, don't be fooled with what you're seeing in your PC.

    Firewire card only transfers your video from tape to PC, so she has nothing to do with quality. But she can be a factor to some other problems, but it's not related to what you're seeing so I won't cover that here.
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  3. Let me start by saying, I am a newbie and looking to store vids on VCD.

    I am using the same exact corder and just bought the same fire wire card. (I was using an ATI All-in-Wonder). Since I installed the fire wire card, I have not been able to capture anything at all without dropping 30-60% of my frames. I have been using ULEAD Video Studio 5 and I tried Virtual Dub, both with no results. Is there some other setting I need to make in order to capture without losing everything?

    To your point. The reason I got the firewire card was because the image quality was very poor on the first VCD I captured and I thought it was a function of the AIW card. I too am struggling with the correct steps to get decent quality onto VCD.
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    I have a TRV120 and ADS Pyro basic.

    I use Premiere 6 to capture in, using the Microsoft DV codec, capturing to a dedicated hardrive. A maxtor 7200RPM IDE drive. No frame drops for 15 minutes of capture, good quality. Better than when I was using a DC30Plus.

    All I can suggest is the following:-

    1. I think I am correct in stating that Ulead Video Studio will install an Adaptec codec for DV. Remove this codec from you video codecs.

    2. There is an update for the Microsoft DV codec.

    3. Encode as SVCD, the results are so very good.

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