I have a sony camcorder. Picture perfect software came with it but this software is not comaptable with my dvd hardware burner. Had regular nero but that was not compatable with AVI files. I now am using nero 6/ultra express 2 and it will work but the quality of the picture is horrible. On my camcorder or palying it to the tv is great. but as soon as I do the capture video it is really bad. All I want to do is get my vacation video onto a dvd and this should be so easy!!! There must be some setting I can cahnge but I cannot seem to find it on my camcorder or on the nero. Can anyone please give me some easy to follow instructions? Thanks
You need to provide more details. How are you capturinf , software used, settings? etc. I have done what you are trying and have had wonderful results. Perhaps the encoder is poor. I honestly feel you will need to provide more details please.
thanks for your reply. I am using nero 6 ultra express 2. following the on screen instructions to capture but can't seem to adjust quality settings on it. The other software I have used to capture video are fine with quality but can't burn from them (sony picture perfect and windows movie maker). Someone told me that it is because I am using USB 2 and not firewire but that would not make sense since quality is fine on others. I also can't try firewire since my computer does not have a port for it. When I called gateway, they said I don't need one because it is USB 2 compatible which goes just as fast as firewire. the nero I am using is easy and works I just need help to find out if I can fix the quality. The other programs are also much more complicated to use or won't work with my hardware (picture perfiect) any help or suggestions are much appreciated. thanks
Firstly from my own experience and in speaking with others & reading material I feel that firewire is indeed better then USB, so thats the first thing you should add to your system. If you have a PCI slot being used by USB, then get another Card which has firewire & USB so you have both on one card. I always use firewire, have never had any problems. I just don't see a capture program making a mess of your video file, since it really just brings it into your harddrive without any encoding. I have used MM@ and it has worked fine in terms of quality, currently I am using Vegas & then I author it in DVDLab pro & burn using Nero. I am not using 1 Software to do it all. By the way, i too have a sony cam, but I don't have USB connection, I have firewire. When I get a chance I need to try capturing in Nero. Tell me what do you mean by poor quality? obviously your original is a good video. Nero can read AVI files perfectly well, so when you say that Nero is not compatible with AVI files, I am curious what you mean. Why don't you tell me exactly the step you are taking and the model of your cam.
thanks again...I really don't want to spend more money if I don't have to (for firewire and slot).I think it might be a problem with a nero setting, am still waiting for relpy form nero, since I can capture video fine with USB 2.0 and other software. I really want to be able to use the nero 6 ultra since it seemed esy and fast and lots less complicated than the other software (picture perfect which would not recognize my hardware DVD burner. I have a sony DCR-HC42 handicam. When I said nero didn't recognize avi (that was the old nero I had). the ultra edition I have now does. What I mean by the quality is horrible is that it is all a bunch of squares....when I capture with nero 6 ultra. I can't seem to get to the right settings, obviously the default settings are not right. The quality on the tape itself is fine. Here is what I do...I open nero ultra. I connect the camera to the computer, I click on nero vision express 2 (which is the one that does the video to dvd capture) and then I click on capture video. Then I just press record for any or all parts of what I want captured. I can see on the screen that the quality is poor.....ok this is so weird...I did this so many times before and the same thing happened, I just tried it again so I could copy the poor picture quality into this message and viola' it worked fine...yes there is some loss of quality due to the usb vs firewire but not very much....well thanks for your help, I have no idea what happened before... I did the same thing I have done a dozen times before...
I thought all was well....got the quality much better but then I went to burn it and it was not smooth at all, jumpy, breaks in play, that sort of thing. would that be usb related? It did not happen when I burned the poor quality video. guess I am going to have to try on someone elses computer with a firewire before I invest in updating my computer with the right hook up. Gateway told me I should not need one though because it is USB 2.0 compatible.....does that make any sense to you?
