Capture Quality

[crjackson]

Capturing DV from my Sony DV camcorder gives me a pixellated looking picture on my captured video before I have made a MPEG2 file from the captured video. The capture is done at DV quality capture on Pinnacle Studio 7.15
I am very new at this and any help will be greatly appreciated.

In studio, go into the video tab on the left side of the story board. Look at the different tabs inside, and find the sliders that let you adjust brightness/contrast/blur/color/hue/saturation/emboss.... and the one you want is MOSAIC.... be sure that is all the way to the left (setting should be 0).

I don't know for sure if this is the problem, but it does EXACTLY what you are describing. I can duplicate exactly what you describe by cranking up the MOSAIC slider...

Give it a look...

[Charlie Brown]

Thanks everybody. Good suggestions, all worth trying. You are all a great bunch of guys. I am off to a wedding and will return after the weekend and test all your ideas. I hope some solve my problem. You are right, the hardware/software manufacturers like to make us believe that it's so easy that a child could do it. Ha!
Have a good weekend, everybody.

[Charlie Brown]

crjackson
Thanks for your suggestion. What you describe works if you are capturing from a video source (VCR), you cannot alter these parameters when the source is DV.

[HOOKEDONTECH]

i had a similar problem playing back dv/avi files captured with a minidv camcorder, playback on the computer looked more like mpeg1, when these files should playback looking crytsal clear. i use windows media player to playback my files and found that there is a slider called "digital video (dv) settings (goto tabs tools/options/performance) that can adjust the playback quality. by moving this slider fully to the right i was able to correct my faulty dv/avi playback.