Lost ability to capture at higher quality VS9

[Andyj]

Hi,

New to the whole process so please bare with me. Capturing sd dv from a sony handycam using VS9 and a USB conection to pc. Few days ago all seemed to be ok was able to capture at 640x480 (I think) but now for some reason information section is showing 320x240 with a corresponding really poor quality preview. No matter what changes I try to make in the capture options or project properties etc it will not now allow me to capture at a higher quality. The options menus don't even show a higher quality available than 320x240. Tried at both AVI and Mpeg format capture settings but no change.

windows XP Home
ATI Radeon 1200 series
32 bit
1gig RAM
PAL region

Any thoughts I'm at a loss?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Andy

And welcome to the forums, thanks for providing some of your pc specifications, if you add this to your profile it will show to the right of the post, Thanks..

Capturing from a Mini –DV camcorder should be done via firewire, yes I know the cable does not come with the camera.

But Firewire capture is the way to go.

Choose DV as the capture format and your footage will be transferred to the pc without re-coding.
Full quality, what you have is what you get DV-Avi

If you do not have firewire on your pc the cards are relatively cheap and easy to fit.
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If you right click a clip and select properties , this will show the video files details.

http://lata.me.uk/video_studio/guides/q ... de_avi.htm