Low graphics quality

[clark77095]

I am quickly learning how to use Video Studio 7 and my new Sony HC21 camcorder, I played back the video from the computer back to the Camcorder except now the audio does not match the video plus it is low quality, when I burned it to DVD it came out flawlessly with the exception of the depth of field is not all that great, how can I get the quality to come out better?

I will try to upload the video to my server tonight, if you look at the door and fire extinguisher behind the women I am interviewing the distance is 16 feet it only looks 3 feet away. My Computer is a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor with a Gig of 400DDR Ram and a 200 Gig SATA drive I would think this should be more then enough.

Kent,

[Ken Berry]

You need to give us more information, and in particular the format and other properties of the video you sent back to the camera and exactly how you did it. Were you actually recording the video back to the DV cassette in your camera? If so, it has to be in DV Type 1 or Type 2 format. And you have to use Firewire, not USB.

As far as I am aware, Video Studio does not affect things which are already on your video, like depth of field. That is a function controlled by your camera when you film the original video. But others may correct me on this.

[THoff]

Ken is correct, it's digital video, and it is transferred to the PC the way the camcorder saw and recorded it. There is nothing you can do about it with inexpensive consumer-oriented video editing software.

If your camcorder has manual focus control, focus on one of the subjects and the lock the focus. Then it won't matter if the interviewee moves out of the location you have focused on, whereas automatic focus would then focus on whatever is in the background.

[heinz-oz]

System spec's, capture device, settings and connection type, project settings, clip properties before and after etc.??