what filters to use??

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I am in the process of capturing about 30 mins of video from when I go motorbike racing.

There is a lot of movement with the camera of tracking the bikes and such. When i convert to normal VCD it seems to look soft and blocky so has anyone got some recommendations for what filters to use when either capturning or post processing.

thanks

[therick]

Sounds like your source is a camcorder...the big question is what your INPUT looks like. I doubt that it is blocky...that sounds like the mpeg compression trying to deal with all of your fast motorbikes. The solution to blocky video is to up the bitrate. I would ask a few questions that have to do with your input. What is your capture resolution/codec? Does the input video look good? Offhand here is my suggestion: capture at 352x480 with Huffy (look left under tools>codecs), and make an interlaced XSVCD (should play in your player if it has SVCD capability). If your player is limited to VCD, check the DVD compatiblity list (also to the left) and see if you can make an XVCD (352x240 MPEG1 with a bitrate ABOVE the standard 1.15 MBits)...with only 30 minutes of video you should be able to take the video bitrate to the max for most players (2.5 MBits) and still fit your video on one CD.

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Sorry how could I forget the following...

Source - Cam 8mm
Input from - Phono lead
Codec - Mjpeg set to res of 19
Res - 480 x 570
Input quality - looks sharp when viewing through tv app
Caputure hardware - Wintv primo
Target Audicence - Anyone with a CD rom

I would say that there is a little bit of zooming and panning which is messing up the conversion and stuff.

Any hints?

[therick]

man if you are going for anyone with a PC I would use DIVX...I was assuming you needed to go to something that would play on a stand alone. In other words, it terms of bitrate...sky's the limit for you my man, PCs will play about anything...that is if you want to stay with mpeg...but definitely check DIVX out...