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.
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.