V/S 8 Capture / Burn ?

paulwho · Post by **paulwho** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:22 am

Hi again,
I've been using V/S 8 to capture, edit & burn. All seems ok untill I play the burnt DVD on the TV. Although these are very amature home analog videos which look ok on the camcorder & PC, but when viewed on the TV through the DVD player you get dizzy from watch the blurry image when the picture pans around and zooms in & out. Could this be from the capturing and or burning ?
Paulwho...

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:29 am

More details please paul, what were the capture, edit and burn project settings? PAL or NTSC? Field order?

paulwho · Post by **paulwho** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:45 am

Hi "heinz-oz"
O/S Win XP SP2 , ADM 2600 , 1gb Ram, 2 x 80 gb HD , 40 gb RAID Controller HD,
WinFast TV 2000 XP Expert Capture Card,
DVD PAL, 6000 kbps , Lower Field First
I hope this is what you need. Paulwho

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:15 am

What are you capturing -- digital video or analogue? I ask because I have that same capture card and I have noticed something strange. I have recently captured a lot of my old analogue video tapes using the card's own capture program (which I find great). The strange thing is that it appears to capture analogue video as lower field first when normally, analogue is upper field first. But it seems to work and I haven't experienced any of the normal problems associated with field order problems.

Now your problem sounds rather like it is a field order problem, but you are using lower field first, at least for your burn properties. But I am interested in what your capture settings were. Can you right click on one of your captured clips and go to Properties and see what it says about the field order.

It might be worth experimenting with changing the field order: if the captured clip is Upper Field First, then change the burn template to the same.

If the capture properties show it was captured in Lower Field First, then your might want to see what happens if you change the capture settings to Upper Field First (and match the burn properties to that too). I confess I have not used the capture card to capture digital video, though as you know it has two firewire ports on it. It just might be that the card captures analogue as Lower Field First and digital as Upper Field First. This would be quite strange, but I just don't know for sure.

Needless to say, in your experiments, use a rewritable DVD so you don't waste +/- R discs.

paulwho · Post by **paulwho** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:35 am

Hi Ken
I'm capturing analogue videos from VCR & Sony Handycam.
Thanks for your advice but as I'm away from my computer that has the capture properties, I'll have to send them later.
Tell me Ken, if you have the same capture card as me, & you use the WinFast program to do the capturing, then can you tell me your settings you have for Analogue. ?
Thanks paulwho...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:41 am

Yes -- these are typical properties for clips captured with the card. You can vary some of them from within the card's main controls, but you cannot specify the Field Order.

MPEG-2 Video, Lower Field First
24 bits, 720 x 576, 4:3
25 fps
Variable Bit Rate (Max. 6000 bps)

MPEG Audio Layer 2
44,100 Hz, 16 bit, Stereo
224 kbps

I haven't got my analogue vidcam at the moment (friend using it) so cannot say for sure, but I recall that when it is connected to the card (I use RCA composite cables into the card's adapter that looks like S-video but also takes audio), the car automatically detects the appropriate Field Order and changes it if necessary, though you can then force it back manually if you want to. But as I say, I find the above works just fine.

paulwho · Post by **paulwho** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:04 am

Ken > Thanks for the info > I've put your coments into action last night & YES ! it works. My Video Studio 8 Capture & Burn settings were :- MPEG Files , 24 Bits , 720 x 576 , 25.00 fps. Upper Field First , (DVD-PAL) , Video data rate : 6000 kbps , Audio data rate : 224 kbps , MPEG Audio , 48.0 KHz , Stereo.
I did have Lower Field First in Capture & Upper field First in Burn. At the above settings it all looks good. Thanks for giving us the time Ken. paulwho ...