Help with basic video capture steps...

[dbarnett13]

I have been experimenting with different video capturing methods and have not been happy with the immediate playback. I get the mozaic or fractal lines around fast moving portions of the video. I read that I should not pay attention to the immediate playback because when I render an AVI or mpeg with huffyuv or ??? that my final result will be very smooth. I am using Windows XP with Video Studio 6.

I realize that DV is a much better standard to use, but I have a ton family movies on Hi8 that I would like to edit into a basic family video. Eventually I will get the DV camcorder, but can anyone help me with the logical steps of data capturing, editing, and rendering?

[Poplar]

Video capturing is part of science, part of art and requires a lot of trials and errors just to get the experience. If you are looking for a good guide, try this one:
http://www.lukesvideo.com/
It covers a lot of bases about capture.
After you captured your video, you have to decide on a format to convert to, VCD, SVCD, or DVD? Then you have design your encoding scheme for your video stream. The whole thing is not a push button project and you have to use a lot of tools to get excellent result. That's why lot of people just go for a real-time capture card. Here is a review of some of these cards: http://www4.tomshardware.com/video/01q3/010801/index.html