Can anyone help me? Burn from vhs tape to Pioneer HDD dvd recorder
with great success with quality as good as original source. Then I burn master dvd, run it through another dvd player to capture vision and sound and edit on videostudio 8 with success, I burn dvd but picture quality is not sharp and clear (like 2rd generation copie's of vhs tapes) as my original dvd. what am i doing wrong. P.s I am also using winfast xp 2000 t.v card for captureing.
Poor picture quality
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Can't you transfer your original captures from the Pioneer HDD recorder direct to your computer, edit them and then burn the 'master'? That would at least cut out one step and any related degradation of quality inherent in, in effect, copying a video which moreover has been edited and, depending on your procedures, potentially re-rendered. Some on this Board have done tests to show that capturing in MPEG-2, editing -- even several stages of editing -- and then burning, produces no noticeable degradation in quality. Others dispute that, noting that MPEG-2 is a 'lossy' format (like JPEGs) and that any manipulation of it produces a small loss in quality which, moreover, is cumulative.
So if you can find how to transfer your original capture direct from the Pioneer HDD to the computer, that might help. It will depend on the format they are recorded in, of course, but Video Studio can handle both VR and VOB files from such recorders. You don't say which version of VS you are using, but VS9, for instance, has a separate button on the Capture screen labelled 'Import from DVD/DVD-VR'. And I know it was possible with VS8 and, I am pretty sure, VS 7 -- though I no longer have these on my computer so can't tell you precisely how it is done with them.
Also, have you tried capturing direct from your vhs vcr to your computer via the XP 2000 card? I realise it is probably easier to do it via the Pioneer as it likely has dual vcr/dvd functions. But I have the same card as you and get reasonable quality (i.e. vhs good quality) capturing from an analogue camera -- though I confess I have not tried it from a vcr.
So if you can find how to transfer your original capture direct from the Pioneer HDD to the computer, that might help. It will depend on the format they are recorded in, of course, but Video Studio can handle both VR and VOB files from such recorders. You don't say which version of VS you are using, but VS9, for instance, has a separate button on the Capture screen labelled 'Import from DVD/DVD-VR'. And I know it was possible with VS8 and, I am pretty sure, VS 7 -- though I no longer have these on my computer so can't tell you precisely how it is done with them.
Also, have you tried capturing direct from your vhs vcr to your computer via the XP 2000 card? I realise it is probably easier to do it via the Pioneer as it likely has dual vcr/dvd functions. But I have the same card as you and get reasonable quality (i.e. vhs good quality) capturing from an analogue camera -- though I confess I have not tried it from a vcr.
Ken Berry