Poor Quality when Capturing DV-AVI

[John]

I have a brand new P4 3.2GHz HT processor, 512MB Ram, onboard 64MB video
(yeah I know!). Capturing from a sony digital camera via firewire.

On my first attempt at video capturing with WMM I used the recommended
setting and the picture looked great in the small window. At full-screen it
looked quite good as well but you could see the difference. One hour of
captured video was about 700MB or so.

WHen I tried capturing the same tape using DV-AVI (a 14GB file!) it looked
pretty bad on my computer, in any size. Im guessing this is not normal.

Ultimately I want to burn these to DVD to watch on a TV. Im guessing that
DV-AVI capture is the way to go if I dont want to lose quality, but it seems
to be working in reverse for me!
Any advice would be much appreciated.

John

 

[Al Stu]

What type of connection are you capturing with?
USB, Firewire (IEEE1394), capture card, etc?
Firewire is the preferred.

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[Graham Hughes]

It depends on several things, but viewing an interlaced video, which you
have, on a pc screen is not the best way, it's designed to be shown on a tv.
To test, record a bit back to the cam and tehn play this through the tv and
see how it looks.
Viewing through apps like Movie Maker only shows a preview in the preview
screen, MM shows video at 320x240 and 15fps.
If you captured whilst doing other things, you may have dropped frames,
which would make it look bad.

Graham

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