I'm very new. I just purchased a Cannon ZR65. I am capturing via firewire and with Pinacle Studio 7. Than burning with Nero as VCD. (My DVD player does not support SVCD). I am fearing my capture quality might be poor (Windows Media Player doesn't help give me a good determination). * Is there a certain capture software or method that will be sure of high capture quality? * Is the output quality poor because of VCD? * Would SVCD or DVD improve the quality greatly? I guess with the digital camcorder I was expecting this amazing quality. Thanks for the help and understanding. MIKE
Your capture wouldn't be a problem, but encoding the VCD via Nero is. Use TMPGEnc to encode the video, making sure that you use the highest motion search precision setting, add some noise reduction in TMPGEnc. Only use Nero to burn your encoded output. Obviouly SVCD or DVD will produce a better result, but a good VCDs are quite reasonable. Rgds, jnihil.
Thank you for the answer. And sorry about more questions.... When I capture in Pinnacle it gives me serval capture options. (I should of wrote them all down before I came to work today :-( I remember some of them are DV Encode, DV Soft Encode. Some even give larger resolution size options. What would be the proper capture choice? When I'm done with my capture and editing in Pinnacle it gives me a couple of options for saving my edited movie. .avi or .mpeg (VCD, SVCD, and DVD). What would be my best option for saving? By your last response I would guess .avi than encode with TMPGEnc then use the VCD funtion in Nero. Am I correct? Thanks, MIKE
Yes. Capture in DVD AVI, edit, then save in DV AVI. If you are making a VCD, then use TMPGEnc to create the mpg files, then burn via Nero. Rgds, jnihil.
