SimonSez07
12th March 2003, 09:56
appearantly Windows Media Encoder 9 is able to capture video digitally from a dv camcorder (firewire) and encode in real-time to constant-quality wmv file. this is a great feature since it cuts out a lot of inbetween steps, requires little hdd space, and is FAST.
the only problem is, there is few pre-processing options. for instance when capturing interlaced dv to 320x240 wm9, it combines the two fields into each progressive frame, which creates a kind of ghosting effect. it looks like two images in each frame. (see the attached examples)
http://www.biscottis.biz/misc/image.jpg
the old-fashioned way, with avisynth or virtualdub i could discard one field and produce prefectly progressive 29.97 frame 320x240 video for encoding.
any idea how to do this in windows media encoder.
on a side note, im curious, when capturing from a dv firewire source using normal vfw capture (like, say, into windows media encoder or virtualdub) does the camera decode the dv and sent the frames over firewire, or does the computer do the decoding??
thanks for your help
-simon
the only problem is, there is few pre-processing options. for instance when capturing interlaced dv to 320x240 wm9, it combines the two fields into each progressive frame, which creates a kind of ghosting effect. it looks like two images in each frame. (see the attached examples)
http://www.biscottis.biz/misc/image.jpg
the old-fashioned way, with avisynth or virtualdub i could discard one field and produce prefectly progressive 29.97 frame 320x240 video for encoding.
any idea how to do this in windows media encoder.
on a side note, im curious, when capturing from a dv firewire source using normal vfw capture (like, say, into windows media encoder or virtualdub) does the camera decode the dv and sent the frames over firewire, or does the computer do the decoding??
thanks for your help
-simon