Hi,
I am New to DVD authoring (i.e. Never Done it) but was hoping to create some using new equipment received over christmas, but am having several problems.
I was told that I could connect my Sony DCR-TRV310E DV camcorder directly to my PC using the firewire card, and get results of near-broadcast quality. This I have tried, using MGI videowave to capture the video, which it automatically saves as a AVI file. the problem is that the quality look nowhere near as good as when I simply plug the camcorder into the TV!??
The PC is a 1 month old Dell 8200, with a Texas Instruments 1EEE 1394 fireiwire card, 512 ram, 120 gb HD and a santacruz 128mb soundcard, Philips DVD+R/RW etc etc etc., but has no Video Capture card as I was told it was unneccesary, and all 5 PCI slots are occupied.
Is this a case of software, hardware, both, or am I just innept!?
Also, what file format are Film DVD's produced in? I understand I won't be able to get that quality with what I have, but its something to aim for.....
Many thanks
Dongledell
I am New to DVD authoring (i.e. Never Done it) but was hoping to create some using new equipment received over christmas, but am having several problems.
I was told that I could connect my Sony DCR-TRV310E DV camcorder directly to my PC using the firewire card, and get results of near-broadcast quality. This I have tried, using MGI videowave to capture the video, which it automatically saves as a AVI file. the problem is that the quality look nowhere near as good as when I simply plug the camcorder into the TV!??
The PC is a 1 month old Dell 8200, with a Texas Instruments 1EEE 1394 fireiwire card, 512 ram, 120 gb HD and a santacruz 128mb soundcard, Philips DVD+R/RW etc etc etc., but has no Video Capture card as I was told it was unneccesary, and all 5 PCI slots are occupied.
Is this a case of software, hardware, both, or am I just innept!?
Also, what file format are Film DVD's produced in? I understand I won't be able to get that quality with what I have, but its something to aim for.....
Many thanks
Dongledell
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