Capturing Squeezed Footage!

[Gary Kleiner]

Capture makes no changes to the video you feed it.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Rafi Bagramian]

So any idea why my Squeezed version is getting Captured poorly? The Camera records it clean!

[Mike Kujbida]

Do you have your Vegas project properties set up properly for playback?

[Rafi Bagramian]

I set the Properties to NTSC DV Widescreen (720×480, 29.970fps) Is there some other setting?

[Rafi Bagramian]

Sorry I guess I didn

[Terje A. bergesen]

“Capture” is typically a digital transfer and therefore doesn’t change the quality of the “captured” footage. Something appears to be amiss. What camera are you using, and how are you capturing?

[Rafi Bagramian]

I use The Panasonic DVX-100A and Capture as usual, using the OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394/DV. Don

[Terje A. bergesen]

OK, so then we need to figure out when the footage starts looking poor. Capturing using FireWire is not capture as such, just a digital transfer of the video from your camcorder to your computer. When capturing like this there is never a quality loss in the footage. So, when you say that the captured footage looks bad but it is fine on the camcorder, that can not be the case. The footage is identical on camcorder and computer.

So, step by step – when does the footage go from good to bad? When you have captured, open the raw captured footage in Windows Media player. This footage should look identical to the footage on the camcorder (with minor differences due to the computer/TV color differences etc).

If the captured footage looks fine – given your info, it should – what do you do next?

[Rafi Bagramian]

Oh Boy!! Twists and Turns!!!! 🙂 Here is what happened:

I was viewing the original Tape Footage on my Portable Widescreen DVD player. This player stretches the standard 4:3, thereby reducing its quality!!! So when I was watching the Squeezed Footage, which fills up the full widescreen without stretching it, the resolution difference was not noticeable!!!!!!

So basically I was NOT seeing my standard 4:3 recording at it