Capture quality

[picking]

I have just bought an Adaptec VideOh PCI capture board, and have used Moviemill to capture from VHS tapes (decent quality VCR and tapes). However the quality of the captured clip is terrible, like the short clips you can download from the internet, pixellated and blocky. This is on the highest quality settings - 8MB/min I think, and the program does not report any dropped frames or other problem. The preview picture while capturing is just as bad. I am looking at the playback on the monitor, have not bothered burning anything yet. Sonic gives the same poor quality preview, but does not seem to actually create the file it says it will, so there is nothing to play back. Am I missing something, or is this the sort of quality that is normal?
Computer: Athlon XP1800, Asus motherboard/integrated nvidia, 7200 rpm 60GB hard disc, 256DDR, Win 98SE.

Thanks if you can help.

[Bob W]

I use a cheap Aver capture card that came with a $39 program called AverDVD that I purchased at CompUSA. To capture I use a program called NeoDVD http://www.mediostream.com/products/neodvdplus/index.html and the results are perfect for the twenty or so VHS movies I have converted to DVD. I capture at the highest settings FYI. Also I have used the same card to capture using MovieFactory2 and the results are similar however I prefer the DVD making qualities of NeoDVD over MovieFactory.

Finally to clean up the VHS signal I have this device called a Video Copy Master which I bought from BestBuy that cleans up the output of the VHS player and amplifies, filters, and levels the output prior to the capture card. The resulting DVD copy looks even better than the VHS tape IMO.

[K2]

I started using the same card and software this week.
I have not seen the problem you are having. I did find my screen had to be at 1024x786 to get a reliable capture results, not higher or lower.

My preview looks just as good as the results (great results).
I do prefer the custom video setting for the added filtering.
It's not your computer, I have a XP1700 on Win2K

Is the original tape copy protected? If so you will need a box to remove macrovision. commonly $40.

I plan on polishing my whole VHS to DVDR process this weekend.
Wish me luck.