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jdfrey1
2nd September 2002, 02:43
I have been searching and reading quite a bit over the last few weeks and learning about DV capturing and encoding. I am somewhat of a newbie but I am getting more comfortable with what I'm working with.

I have a Sony Digital8 camera that I transferred some video clips over firewire using Premiere. I edited, added some titles and encoded into a MPEG-2 that I plan on putting on a DVD. I also exported the completed project back to tape to "preserve" the video in the best quality possible, next to keeping the original files of course.

My problem is this.....If I re-capture my previously edited video from the tape in Premiere, the video looks very bad and blocky. I get a similar result if I encode the video in Premiere to AVI as a DV file. I have found that I can use Scenalyzer and the quality looks much better but it is dependant on which DV codec I use. I've tried numerous DV codecs like the Mainconcept demo, Canopus DV, and Panasonic. My readings tell me that there are slight DV codec differences but that I shouldn't be able to really spot a big difference. However, the only one to me that produces acceptable quality to me is Canopus. All the others produce the blocky product that I talked about before. Is there something that I'm not doing correctly? I've heard that many people are very happy with the Panasonic and I would like to get it working because the price of the Canopus DV encoder is very expensive!

Any help or direction of information would be appreciated.

bb
2nd September 2002, 06:58
@jdfrey1
This is your first post, so I feel like I may ask: Have you seen that there is a DV forum? You might get help more easily there.

@Cart:
Could you please move this thread to the DV forum?

bb

theReal
3rd September 2002, 16:12
Have you set the playback quality of the MS DV codec to full?
The default is half resolution and it looks very bad. It doesn't affect the file or the encoding, just the playback.

jdfrey1
3rd September 2002, 17:55
That fixed it! Thank-you very much.