Help with DV transfer to computer!

[Sominex24]

Problem with DV transfer and editing, help!!
Ok,

My setup

Dell Dimention XPS-T
Celeron Xeon 1.2 Ghz
WinXP home
384 MB SDRAM
Geforce3 Ti200 64 MB Video Card
Dazzle Firewiere Card
13.9 GB 7200 HD (NTFS)
40 GB 7200 HD (FAT32)

I am currently transfering the video to the 40 GB HD

DV Camcorder
JVC805U

Software
Ulead VideoStudi 4.0 SE

I was transfering video just fine! It was perfect. NO dropped frames at all! It made to about 4GB worth (close to 20 or so minutes)

Then a message came on and said "Unexpected Error, you may have run out of disk space. The file may or may not be corrupted, do you want to keep it?"

I checked the drive, and there was still over 30 GB left


I am using the option "transfer settings from template" 27.9 frames per second

When I clcik on "properties" for the file itself in WinXP it is listed as a "Video Clip"


What am I doing wrong here?

[Mark W.]

I believe in the Preference or Set Up tab there is a place to select SEAMLESS CAPTURE. Ensure that is enabled and you should be good to go.

Mark W.

[Sominex24]

I believe in the Preference or Set Up tab there is a place to select SEAMLESS CAPTURE. Ensure that is enabled and you should be good to go.

Mark W.

Are you referring to a "setup tab" or "preferences" in the Ulead program or something else?


What is "Seamless Capture"?


Someone else sggested, since it stopped at 4GB, it may be becasue I am using FAT32

He said if I switch to NTSF I should be ok. What do you think?

[Tbear]

I am running XP Pro with NTFS and able to capture 26Gbs without using seamless capture. You have two choices. seamless capture or change to NTFS.

[Mirror_Image]

Yep, so change to NTFS and lose that 4GB file size limit. Spanning long videos over several files is a pain.

[Sominex24]

I changed the drive to NTFS format, and sure enough it recorded the full hour of footage without error. it came out to be a little over 12GB for a one hour miniDV tape.


The quality is very good! BUT, at some points i gets a little pixelated and I see some halo artifcats.

I am using Ulease Studio to import the footage from the camera. Then I use TMPeg to convert it to MPEG-1

I have it on the "high quality" setting, and am using the NTSC VCD template

If I switch it to "HIGHEST Quality" Will that show me a vast improvment in the quality?

I assume it will take longer for the conversion too. It took about 2 hours 45 minutes for "HIGH QUALITY"

Will the size of the MPG file get BIGGER as a result of using the highest quality setting?


Cheers!

[Mark W.]

What is pixelated and haloed? The downloaded DV or the processed mpg1?

[Sominex24]

What is pixelated and haloed? The downloaded DV or the processed mpg1?

The processed MPEG looks good on the computer screen

After I burn it onto the VCD, play it on the dvd player hooked up to the TV, certain parts of it just get pixelated and haloed

[Mark W.]

If your stand alone player will play SVCD's try that. It's not fool proof, but I have had better results going from DV to SVCD.

My steps in a nut shell:
1. Capture DV 740x480
2. Use TMPG SVCD template 480x480. Use a bitrate that will completely fill your media. 2500Kbs allows about 35-40 minutes on a 700 MB CDR.
3. I'm not at my computer, so I can't tell you what I use for each setting in TMPG, but play around. Highest Quality (slowest) does not seem to give exceptionally better quality than High Quality (slow).
4. Burn with your favorite Burner Program.
5. Side Note: To check different output qualities, it is not necessary to encode the entire video. Let it encode for a while then abort. Use a CDRW for testing. (If your stand alone will play those).

Email me direct if you want more info.
Gtrzan99@hotmail.com

Mark W.