"Oracle User" <lcrusader@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> I have a sony TRV30 minidv camcorder and I recently bought a firewire

> card from compusa to transfer video to my pc. I then used Studio 8 to

> capture half an hour of tape onto my disk and ran the captured avi

> file using PowerDVD. The quality of the captured file isn't the same

> as the original on tape. I read in some of the earlier posts that a

> capture process is lossless and the quality should be the same. In

> power DVD, whenever the objects in the movie move suddenly or when the

> camera is scanned across a room, all edges become unclear and you can

> see lot of small lines at the edges. These lines are quite distinct

> and make the video basically useless.

>

> Could this be a problem with the firewire card or with studio 8? There

> are no dropped frames while capturing.

>

> Any info will be greatly helpful.

Uuuugggghhhhhhh..................!!!

For the umpty-eleventh time in these NGs,

TV AND COMPUTER DISPLAYS ARE DIFFERENT!

Try feeding the video back to the camera from the computer

and watch it on TV - it will look the same as the original.

TV interlaces the display to improve "frame rate" and

motion-smoothness; computer displays are "progressive

scan", so they will show the time-displaced alternate

scan lines as "comb" edges on moving subjects...

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David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com