Digitial Camcorder

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cheeser

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I Got a Sony Digitial 8 Camcorder,i also have a firewire connection and ATI All in Wonder Radion,i have lots of different apps to use to take the tape into Avi or mpg,but the quality is not as good as the camera and i wan't to take these tapes into svcd,any one have any Experiance with this camera or any to find best way to transfer to avi and mpg with good quality,i'm all Ear's!!!!



Thank You
Cheeser
 
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theshadow

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I've got the JVC digital cam with firewire and I've had reasonable success with transfers.
Depending on the software you're using, try adjusting the capture settings in your software.

You do have to be careful that the settings you choose conform to the standard required by the output format.
SVCD & VCD both have min/max limitations in the settings.

There are some good tutorials here and elsewhere regarding settings for optimal capturing.

I've experimented to get what I deem as being a good mix between quality & file size.
Most of my home movies I've done as plain old VCD.
It's not perfect but it's no worse than VHS, so I'm happy.

My advice to try capturing snippets of video at different settings to see what you end up with. To get the same quality as you DV, you'll have to capture in either DV mode and burn it as DVD (with some of the ULEAD progs, you can burn about 15 mins of DVD quality stuff onto a CD-R).

I'm not an expert, I'm sure there are others who are around here, but I hope this offers some help.

Have fun....
 
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Armagan1

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okey, what you need i guess is a Pinaccle DV CLIP Card where you can directly connect your i-link cable onto ai and directly capture the movie with it. It's arouns USD 80, and the easiest and the best way for Sony Digital Hi8 cameras which have i-link out. It has two way interface from where you can control camera from the pc. With conventional methods of capturing video through composite or s-video ins of Tv cards or Vgas, you'll see an indispensable quality loss whichever codec you use. Especially you get dramatic results when capturing for VCD. The DV kit includes a PCI card, an i-link cable and a Pinaccle software which i very handy and user friendly. Hope you have i-link out!!! cheerssss
 
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Restom@n

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This is my experence..
I have tried..or...used just about all the programs out there and what
works best for me is to capture as raw avi with any capture software...Virtual dub is good... (from the cam thru the firewire card) and then use the
encoder of your choice to encode to Svcd...I use TMPEGen or CCE.
You need a "AV~ rated Hard Drive" ie: fast! and a big one at that.
8-min of raw avi=about a gig...I use 100gig ata100 mode5 7200rpm fire-wire HDD
and the Svcd made from the raw avi out of the Cannon ZR20 DV
cam are awsome quality and play on my ...and most new... stand alone DVD players...Hope this helps
 
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