whats the best way to dv capture??

[pedrospeed]

i have a sony digital camera and a conceptronics ohc firewire card but i dont know how to capture with dvd quality!i have a dvd writer,i tried but the image is not perfect.
why???!!

pc specs:
amd thunderbird 1200
769 mhz sdram
40 gb ata 66 seagte disk
board soltek
hp dvd writer 100i
chaintec geforce 2 ti 32mbddr

[EricB]

pedrospeed,

You need to provide a little more detail of what you tried to get a good answer. The first step is to just transfer the DV video to the computer. This is not really a capture but a file transfer.

Then you choose your method of encoding, which will have the greatest effect on your final quality. You might want to start with TMPGEnc and the DVD template.

[pedrospeed]

hello!and thanks for your atencion
i´m from portugal so please forgive me if i say somethin wrong.
the problem is that the video i capture from the dv with the program does not have the quality i wish,it has pixels,i set the capture resolution to avi.
is it the program?

[EricB]

Well, I only speak English, so you are way ahead of me.

The DV file is created in your camera, and the firewire connection allows a transfer of the file to the computer. So there is not a selection for frame size or quality.

The DV file should look good when played on the computer. If you see horizontal (sideways) lines during motion, that is OK and due to interleaving. The DVD you produce should handle the interleaving and the result on your DVD player will look good.

If you are seeing pixels or blocks (not lines) then I assume you have some codec problem. Let us know what software you are using to do the file transfer (camera -> computer) and maybe someone here can give you more advice.

[pedrospeed]

i am using adobe premiere 6.0!

[alk]

Try Ulead Video Studio 6
Capture in DV 720x480
if you have an IEEE1394 sony card
and connection.

[yg1968]

Try it on a DVD video player. Sometimes the image looks worst on the computer but looks fine on a TV.

You can use a couple of shareware programs to import the DV avi:


http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?FileID=910&ProductID=438

http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

You can then use TMPEGnc or Ulead DMF to encode to Mpeg2. I then use Ulead DMF to author and burn to DVD. Looks good on a stand alone DVD player but it doesn't look good on the computer screen. I think that it has to do with the (lousy) microsoft DV drivers but I would not worry about it as long as the final product looks good.

A way to test if your camera is at fault is to export back the AVI (DV) file to the camera. The image should be as clear as it was in the beginning. Try it with DVIO.

[pedrospeed]

hello again and thank you all for your replys!i captured with adobe premiere 6.0 to microsoft dv 720x576 and the quality is excelent.then i encode with tmg to dvd pal but then i want to burn on sonic my dvd but the program transcode the video and audio why??

p.s. : if you know better setings or programs please let me know
thanks