Parameters in order to acquire vhs

[ciro78]

Hello, I would want to know that used formulations in order to import the vhs. I use MPEG to 704*576 If I try to use dvd medium quality after I do not succeed to see the video on the PC. he goes in jerks. what advised?

[DVDDoug]

...he goes in jerks.

The quality setting is not causing that problem. The symptoms of a too-low bitrate (low quality setting) are pixelization or graininess, especially when there is movement on the screen.

You need to use a DVD compatible format. 704x576 should be OK for PAL.* If you live in a PAL country your framerate should be 25 FPS. Any of the DVD settings should be OK, as long as you choose PAL or NTSC, depending on where you live. There is a chart on this page showing the allowable MPEG formats.

What kind of capture device are you using? Are you using the software that came with it? Will your capture device allow you to capture in AVI/DV format? (The less-compressed formats seem to cause less touuble.)

You've probably got dropped frames or some other capture problem. (A corrupt video file can cause all kinds of strange symptoms.) This can be caused by a slow computer, by multitasking during capture, by using a cheap capture device, or by using capture software that's not made to work with the hardware.

Sometimes an MPEG file can get corrupted during editing.


* Video Studio might convert it to 720x576 when you make a DVD... I'm not sure. If that turns out to be the case, it would be better to capture in 720x576 and avoid re-coding.

[Ken Berry]

704 x 576 is within the PAL DVD standard, and so should burn without reecoding.

One other possible source of jerkiness could be wrong field order, but that too would depend on the capture device, and then making sure the same field order is used throughout the whole project.