ghosting? when fast movement in video capture

[rkhanso]

I'm new at this stuff.

I'm not sure if what i'm seeing would be called ghosting, but here's what's happening.

I just bought a V-Stream X Pert DVD Maker (VS-L883D) card that came with CyberLink Power Producer 2 Gold software.

Computer:
Dell 2.5GHz Celeron
512MB DDR RAM
On-board Video (Intel 82865G)

I have an analog video camera that I connected to the PCI capture card with a S-VHS cable and mono audio input.

When firing up the software that came with it, It seems to capture OK...but then when trying to edit the captured video, the program crashes. I've contacted the software maker and they had me try some things, to no avail.

I tried Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3 SE, and was able to burn a DVD...but have video quality problems. I'm not sure if it's software or hardware (but believe it's hardware)

When there's fast movement in the video being captured, there's double/triple images only near what is moving quickly in the video, the rest is OK. It appears in the "Preview" window in the software and on the burned DVD. If there's no fast movement, the video looks OK, but not that great. But when there's some quick movement, it's not really blurred, but double-imaged....kinda like when you have your "mouse pointer trails" turned on in windows. Does this make sense?

I know the card was really cheap, ($30) and I've been thinking about returning it and getting a PVR-150.

Or, does anyone have suggestions?

[deets]

maybe something to do with the interlacing? I know my capture device throws up all kinds of weird ghosting so i just de interlace and all works fine.

maybe you could upload a short clip so the real experts could see?

[Mug Funky]

it's being deinterlaced during capture, using a simple vertical blur.

i have a V-Stream DVB-T card that does analog capture (it's currently covered in junk on my desk... i'm not terribly happy with it all-in-all), and i believe you have to specifically set the MPEG-2 encoding profile to capture interlaced. i forget how to do this, but there aren't too many options to chose, so i'm sure you can find it.

if that doesn't work, try capping with different software. if that doesn't work, you're SIL i'm afraid :) you might do better to cap uncompressed and encode in software, but i'm not sure if your card allows that.