MMC 7.6 and Motion Quality settings

[GLADIATOR 2002]

I created a VCD with MMC 7.6 with the quality setting on Motion Search quality set to 100% and the video is jerking a little. How important are the settings for motion search. The capture is at 352x240, bitrate is 1.95Mbps, audio at 44Khz 16 bit. Deinterlacing is off as well as visual masking. Could I drop the motion search down to stop the jerking in the video? How would this affect quality? I also used Stinkys MMC 7.5/7.6 tool. Also, when I capture from VHS tape instead of Satellite, the colors and primarily the brightness and contrast are different...is it possible to create a template in MMC 7.6 for VHS capture and a different one for Satellite capture and have MMC remember or keep the brightness and contrast settings for each template? Sort of tired of adjusting these all the time?

Thanks

[marsmayhem]

The colors aren't profile specific. That's why they're on the other tab (ie. not Digital VCR).

Maybe someone could write a registry program to save these settings and load them on demand...

[Bstansbury]

What kind of capture card are you using. If you are seeing jerky output in MPEG capture format, especially at such low resolution (352x240), I don't think it is a function of Motion setting. Are you sure you are not dropping frames during capture. If so, you need to see what in your system could cause the problem,... possibly some software running in the background that interrupts the capture for microseconds. Is the jerky motion on a very regular basis,... have you made sure your hard disk drives are set for DMA,...

If you want some more things to look for,... go to the User Guides section of the VCDHelp forum and look for "How to tune your system for ATI capture."

Hope this helps

[Mirror_Image]

Experimental results always trump opinion - monitor your CPU usage % when capturing with a given profile (res, bitrate, codec) with a MD of 0, then monitor your CPU usage in that exact same profile, but with a MD of 100.

The results will tell you what you need to know.

[GLADIATOR 2002]

Well I am using a AIW Pro 8MB purchased in 1998. You know, I am using XP Home Edition, so many resources running in the background but CPU usage seems to be hovering around 3-6 percent. I guess I should disable as many process running in the background as possible. I dont appear to be dropping frames...I dont see where any are being reported by MMC 7.6. The captures that I am getting and burning to disc via VCD easy are beautiful though...my girlfriend could not tell the difference between the disc or regular satellite though...I had her sit down and watch while the VCD was running, she said..okay you can put the disc in and I said it already is...hahahaha she thought she was watching satellite. I am using Stinkys MMC Tool, as anyone noticed any significant changes when changing the noise levels for composite in the tool and as anyone noticed changes when setting the quality level under more settings from 3 to 5?

[Stinky]

I am using Stinkys MMC Tool, as anyone noticed any significant changes when changing the noise levels for composite in the tool and as anyone noticed changes when setting the quality level under more settings from 3 to 5?

I use the noise reduction a lot - I don't have digital cable and my captures always have a bit of 'noise' in them -- it's like using a simple noise reduction filter in real time - it does work but if you have good digital cable then you don't need it (sadly I do)

I've never figured out if the quality setting does anything.

[Nelson37]

Stinky - I change quality to 6 and it seems to increase sharpness and/or color saturation - viewed both on 17" monitor and 27" TV, the difference was similar to but much less pronounced than difference between PC monitor and TV.
Do you know if there is any way to get accurate frame drop count w/MMC? I had thought that if it said nothing it meant no drops, but I have seen it go from "less than 1%" to no message, so this can't be true. Since changing to 7.6, I have yet to get any message at all, w/7.5 I got "less than 1%" about 10-20% of the time.
BTW, I thought you had really pissed somebody off here at VCDHELP cause I kept seeing all these "please read" messages for you - That was STICKY, not STINKY. Guess I need glasses!

[Sulik]

You can right-click on the frame drop % count and have it show the exact number of frames dropped.
It also looks like MMC is displaying the # of fields dropped (not the # of frames).

[Nelson37]

SULIK - Thank you! I shoulda thought of that.
I have also noticed that sometimes the number "87" is displayed to the left of the volume slider, thought it was connected to scheduled recordings, but apparently not. Is this just the numeric volume value? or perhaps some meaningless number?