Ulead VideoStudio capture settings

[youbecha]

I have made a number of captures using this software and the Gainward Ti whatever Geforce2 card. It works just fine.

The question is that in the settings...and there are a lot of locations and choices...what do the choices mean and do I need to select them.

I don't have it here (on the road) but it includes I frames etc and slow or fast capture etc. about two pages of menu settings.

If there were good docs or a FAQ on these settings, that would help me a lot.

[paulgab]

As for me, i was not able to find good docs regarding all those settings. But I did some testing on AVI caps and MPEG caps. I found out that capturing on MPEG format yields not so good quality MPEG even if you choose highest quality for DVD-MPEG2 template. It is somewhat 'grainy', not so smooth. Perhaps I missed some settings, never found it!

For the AVI caps, well for me the quality is good enough. On the settings/compression, choosing RGB32 and RGB16 gives you better quality but bigger file size. You can choose also YUY2 or something like that and can still give a good quality AVI but smaller file size than RGBs. The toshiba encoder gives you the smallest file size but quality is more inferior. You can also down load PicVideo MJPEG and you can add it to the encoders. Slow (better quality output) and Fast (less quality output).

As for the I, P, B frames settings, never tried tweaking them. I checked the values with TMPGenc they are almost the same. But you can experiment of course. Personally I use UVS6 only now for AVI capure and editing. Very simple to use in editing and it has authoring plugin.

BTW,if you can get a hand on Power Director, It can do better MPEG2 and AVI capture, far better than UVS6, well to my experience, and of course more user friendly settings. I can hardly notice any difference in the captured MPEG2 and AVI video. I prefer capturing in MPEG2 coz my HDD has limited space. I use settings like 720x480 resolution, CBR 7000kbps, de-interlace enabled and noise filter enabled. You can also use lower resolutions like 640x480 or 352x480.

My preference is to capture at high res. ie. 720x480 CBR7000kbps (u can try higher rate, if ur rig can handle it) then reencode it into cvd/svcd/vcd format.