quality problem when capturing with digital cam/firewire

[aleventura]

Hi, I just purchased a digital cam and a firewire card. I am using the program that came with the card for capturing (Ulead Video Studio 5). I created a render for superVCD and burned a CD with Nero. The problem I got is when playing the superVCD on my DVD player the quality is a lot worse than dubbing directly from the camera to the TV. When I play the captured video on the PC it looks as bad as the superVCD on the DVD player. The video on the PC is 720x480 but it looks like a 360x340 zoomed by 200% and with a lot more noise than the dubbed one. This is normal or Iam doing something wrong when I capture the video?

I would apreciate your help. Thank

[troyvcd1]

Well let me say that your one of the most green persons on here. Videostudio svcds never look good. Use tmpgenc. And just start reading everything in this site for more info.

[mpb]

That last reply was curt, but accurate.... unfortunately, Ulead doesn't do the best job of encoding video. However, if you encode with TMPGENC, and then add your finished files to Ulead for authoring and burning to SVCD, you may be very pleased with the results. Good luck!!

[aleventura]

thanks for the replyes but the result is the same when I use Premiere 6 to capture the video and TMPGEnc for encode into SVCD. I this the problem is when I captured the video using the DV AVI format, and the result is 360x240 of resolution. I may be wrong but isnt suppose to be 720x480 ?

thanks,

[jtor]

Yes, DV should be 720x480. So my question, where did you find that the video is 360x240?

DV should be a very good source. Suggest you transfer the DV AVI from your PC back to tape, and play that thing on your TV. If the video is pretty much the same as when you 'originally' played the tape on TV, then there's a problem in your processing. But then again, on my encodings, I don't even use anything fancy, other than the pre-defined SVCD template, and quality is great.

[aleventura]

when I play the DV AVI with windows media player, in the properties of the movie it says 360x240.

This is normal ?

[jtor]

I'm guessing you're using mediaplayer version 6.x... This setting can be changed from Half resolution to Full. Play around Properties...

But...you still have the problem of the SVCD quality not good on a standalone DVD Player....

[aleventura]

when I play the DV AVI at 100% zoom, it is 360x240. I dont understand why it dosnt play at 720x480. Please someone it to me. Thanks

[fingernailX]

http://www.puremotion.com/editstudio/faq/halfresdvplayback.htm

Read this over and over till its sinks in!

[aleventura]

thanks a lot