capturing from old vhs tapes

[Klaus Christo]

Just when I thought it was safe/ easy to work this program
I am capturing with the Pinnacle Movie box (and also via my panasonic mv-gs400). The captured videos to avi have like a network of diagonal lines going through them, these lines get worse when I convert avi to mpg.
When I capture with windows movie maker I do not get these lines
I have tried capturing frame bases, upper field first, lower field first, dv1, dv2 type, with and without deinterlacing, now I have run out of ideas.

btw I have to run the moviebox via my camera otherwise the computer freezes, still don't know why this happens on this computer, on my other computer its fine through the movie box by itself.

Anyway the main problem is all the little lines which make the dvd copy of the tapes a much poorer quality.
Any other suggestions would be great.

[heinz-oz]

Why do you run the video via the movie box through your camera? Just hook up the output from the VCR to the AV in on the GS. No need for this gadget, might even have caused your "problem"

[Ken Berry]

I also thought that Pinnacle products are proprietary, in the sense that they only work -- or work properly -- with Pinnacle software, which should have come with the device. (Probably some version of Pinnacle Studio.) Have you tried that?

And if you can capture using Windows Movie Maker, can you capture in DV format? Or only WMV format? I ask, because if you can capture in DV format and it looks OK, you can then simply open and edit it in Video Studio. A lot of us use one program for capture, VS for editing, and a variety of other programs for special effects and burning.

But if you capture in WMV format, be aware that this often causes problems in editing in Video Studio...