Copying VHS material using a Pinnacle Rave TV card

[jacnad]

Hello
Using the above Pinnacle card i am having trouble copying VHS material to Ulead studio 9. Capturing works perfectly and the file appears in the Ulead working folder. Now when I click on the edit tab in Ulead and then play the sound runs perfectly but the picture on the time line advances frame by frame.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so how did they set preference's box to overcome this problem.
Naturally I will be very grate full for any help offered.
Thank You.
Jack Stoddart (elderly)

HP Pavilion t650.uk Photosmart PC
AMD Athlon tm 64 3200+
1Gb DDR-SDRAM
80Gb (7200rpm
ATI Radeon tm 9200
128Mb video memory

[sjj1805]

Did your Pinnacle card come with any capture software?
You may find that the best method is to capture with the software that came with the card then use Ulead to edit/author the DVD

[jacnad]

Hello Steve
Thank you for your reply, the programe came with just one disc, The Application. Now on that disc there is a Pinnacle programe called Trex. I have had a look at this and it appears to be a file converter.
As I said in my previous letter copying VHS to the Pinnacle Rave Card is no problem and in fact the result can be opened in Ulead but, the copy compared with the Ulead captured copy appears to be inferior. As I am unable to proceed to the share stage I suspect it will also
be poor compared with the Ulead final copy
Has the Trex programe anything to do with the problem? What do you think?
Thank You
Jack Stoddart

[sjj1805]

Please detail as much information as possible concerning the capture methods of both systems
1. The Pinnacle programe called Trex.
2. When using VideoStudio.

Please include as many settings as possible, screen sizes, frame rates, audio settings, file type MPEG/DV/AVI and any compression settings used.

The more information you can give, the better we will be equiped to answer your problem. Please include how many hard drives you have, which hard drive the operating system is residing upon, where the capture programs are installed, where you are attempting to save the captured file to.
How much hard drive free space is available.

Make sure you have turned off any unecessary programs running in the background including screen saver, MSN Messenger and other such background programs.

[jacnad]

Hello Steve
I will do my best...Capture>Source Pinnacle Rave> Format AVI> Project properties> Edit file format MPEG Files. Edit Tab> Compresion > media Type> Pal DVD> Edit file format Mpeg files> Quality 100%> Video Data rate Variable 6000 KBPS> Audio format LPCM Audio> General Tab> Data track audio and Video> Frame Rate 25 fps> Frame type upper field first> for analogue frame size Standard 720x576< Display aspect ratio 4.3.
1 hard drive 80 Gb 50Gb spare capacity the operating system resides on the previous. the captured files are saved automatically inn their respective programes IE. Pinnacle Rave and UVS9 I close everything except the two rprogrames. I think I have got that lot right.
Regards
Jack Stoddart

[sjj1805]

OK, Ive taken a look at the specifications of the Pinnacle Rave TV Card
here
The problem appears to be that it only records in MPEG1 and not MPEG2.

MPEG1 is the old video system introduced before the days of DVD discs and recorders. It was a system that enabled up to a hours worth of video to be recorded onto a standard CD disc using a standard CD writer.

When DVD came along a newer video system came along with it MPEG2 enabling video to be captured in much higher resolution and larger screen sizes and requiring that extra space now provided by the DVD disc.

To get a decent capture with your card you will have to stick with MPEG1 settings.

File | Project Properties | Edit file format = MPEG | Edit | Compression | Media type | MPEG1 (or VCD or SVCD)

[jacnad]

Hello Steve,
Thank you for your help, I have had a look at the Pinnacle site and noted what you have say.
I will give it a try and let you know how I get on.
Many thanks for your help.
Jack