DC10 plus Capture to SVCD

[mtbowen]

I have been searching and reading, but I cannot find a clear cut technique for capturing Hi8 analog video and converting it to SVCD. I can successfully capture and burn to SVCD, but the quality is always pretty bad. There is a lot of blockiness, almost no detail, bad colors, and usually jitter or lines on movement areas. I have the dc10+, Studio 7, and Ulead DVD Movie Factory. I have used AVI_IO, VDub, and TmpgEnc in different combinations as well.

If anyone has any advice on exactly how to capture, with what settings, in what program, I would greatly appreciate it.

Mike

[christdoss]

Can you tell me, how you are capturing into PC? Means which format like mpeg or AVI? I would recommend to capture the video into PC as a regular AVI file then render into whatever format you want?

[jtor]

...at what datarate are you doing your transfer? I would suggest you do it at a high rate (I used 6MB/sec when I was still using DC10+). I also used 640x480 resolution; at least I have both fields available in my captured AVI.

hope this helps.

[mtbowen]

I have tried many different settings, none of which looked very good at all. My last attempt consisted of capturing at 640X480, 4000k, both fields. I used the tmpgenc SVCD template added the noise, simple color correction, and sharpen edges filter. I also set it for 2 pass vbr. I then took the mpg and burned with dvd movie factory. It was the best I have done yet, but still a lot less than I think is possible.

I was really hoping someone had a step by step recipe for making svcds using the dc10+ and Hi8 analog.

Thanks for your help,
mtbowen

[wumbus]

Been making SVCDs with my DC10plus for awhile now, and here's how I do it:

1. AVI_IO capture (SVideo, 640x480, 2fields, 6000kbps)
2. Cut-merge edits with Virtualdub (using "streamcopy" to avoid recompressing)
3. Resize to 480x480 and Frameserve using AVISynth (using the "separatefields" and "weave" commands to preserve interlacing during the resize operation... very important.)
4. Encode using Cinemacraft 2.50SP. (uncheck the box that forces field order.) 3-pass VBR Max bitrate 2496, min 1800
Fits about 46-48 mins on one 700MB CDR

Things to watch out for:
1. The Pinnacle MJPEG codec has playback problems... if you don't need to use Studio7, then install the PicVideo MJPEG codec to smooth out playback and improve output quality. The most common complaint due to this bug is that the output "bounces" or "jitters" during regular intervals.

[Toxec]

mtbowen
I have been searching for the same recipe for a while too. And I have not succeded yet .
But now we can search together

[rinkel]

Well, the problem with this is that it will save it uncompressed..
so for a 300 mb AVI captured by DC10 it will become about 4 GB AVI, because i cannot find a MPEG2 compressor for Virtualdub
So this is not a very suitable solution if you have a 3GB movie captured with the DC10


Another easier way is to use tTMPenc and de-interlace the movie with "even" fields. It will reduce the resolution, but it is acceptable

Rinke