Poor Quality and no audio - Help

Sacee1960 · Post by **Sacee1960** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:09 am

I have just downloaded V9 and I have very poor quality and no sound. I have checked the resolution and its 720x576. Im not sure whether Im using the correct format. I have a Sony DCR-TRV140E PAL. Im also wanting to record onto DVD and CDRW disks. Can someone please help using basic terms.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:26 am

1. When you say the resolution is 720x576, is that the resolution you captured at, or outputting at?

2. How are you capturing the video from the camcorder? Using DV, USB, analog?

3. How are you viewing and judging the results?

4. Outputting on CDs/CD-RWs using the native video formats of this media (VCD / SVCD) won't approach DVD quality.

Sacee1960 · Post by **Sacee1960** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:36 am

The resolution is what Im outputting at.
Im capturing via USB.
I have already burnt to a DVD plus I have just rendered another clip and viewed via VS9 and there is still no sound.
So I should just be burning onto a DVD not a CD-R/RW?
Should I be using MPEG or AVI format for capturing.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:44 am

With most camcorders, USB can only be used to transfer video at webcam resolution (320x240). If you then upsample the video to DVD resolution, you'll get pretty severe pixelation.

There is no point in burning any DVDs until you can get video at its full resolution off the camcorder and into your PC. You'll have to get a Firewire cable, and if you don't have a Firewire / iLink / IEEE 1394a port, an expansion card that provides such a port.

I would capture using Firewire and the DV codec into AVI files. That is actually not a capture as much as a digital transfer of the audio and video from the camcorder to the PC -- not a single pixel will be lost or changed.

Sacee1960 · Post by **Sacee1960** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:57 am

OK, so I should change the resolution to 320 x 240 before capturing?
I already have a Firewire installed.

Any suggestions as to why Im not getting audio?

Thanks for your help

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:14 am

No.

I'm saying use Firewire to capture using the DV format (it will create an AVI file using the DV codec). This will give you a full-quality 720x576 video file.