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My advice, forget about using the Pinnacle software for PCTV Pro, DC10+ etc. cards if you're into capturing something beyond the VCD format. Always ended up with a captured file where the audio was out of synch and the video jerky towards the end.
Like many others, I own a vast many VHS tapes that I'd like to transfer to DVD. To make it short, I spent days and nights with all versions and upgrades and patches for these two cards. The problem lies with the software and the quality of the codecs Pinnacle is using.
I finally saw the light when capturing from within Ulead DVD MovieFactory, using only the PCTV as a capture device. Perfect full length movies, no audio synch problems or jerky playback. Just select MPEG output format and set up the parameters according to DVD specs. Reduce the quality setting from 15 to 10, no visible degradation but it reduces file size.
My setup: Fresh Win XP on a Pentium III 1 Ghz, 384 Mb RAM, 40 Gb disk. Quite an ordinary PC these days. Captured to a separate partition, newly formatted, no fragmentation.
My 86 min movie became a 3,3 Gb MPEG2 file. Ready to go to DVD. Voila. Try it. Was it good for you too??
Like many others, I own a vast many VHS tapes that I'd like to transfer to DVD. To make it short, I spent days and nights with all versions and upgrades and patches for these two cards. The problem lies with the software and the quality of the codecs Pinnacle is using.
I finally saw the light when capturing from within Ulead DVD MovieFactory, using only the PCTV as a capture device. Perfect full length movies, no audio synch problems or jerky playback. Just select MPEG output format and set up the parameters according to DVD specs. Reduce the quality setting from 15 to 10, no visible degradation but it reduces file size.
My setup: Fresh Win XP on a Pentium III 1 Ghz, 384 Mb RAM, 40 Gb disk. Quite an ordinary PC these days. Captured to a separate partition, newly formatted, no fragmentation.
My 86 min movie became a 3,3 Gb MPEG2 file. Ready to go to DVD. Voila. Try it. Was it good for you too??