Terrible capture DV -> PC

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Hi,

I am getting horizontal spiky edges on moving objects on any video I
import from my DV camera (Panasonic).
Playing from the camera direct to a TV is fine.
I have tried a few different software packages all with the same
result. I have fooled around with interlace and various capture
settings to no avail.
Is this something basic?

Adam.

 

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In article <40f4d416$0$19155$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Adam Skeggs
<askeggs@optusnet.com.auZZ> writes
>Hi,
>
>I am getting horizontal spiky edges on moving objects on any video I
>import from my DV camera (Panasonic).
>Playing from the camera direct to a TV is fine.
>I have tried a few different software packages all with the same
>result. I have fooled around with interlace and various capture
>settings to no avail.
>Is this something basic?
>
Yes it is.

When you view the interlaced DV picture on a non-interlaced monitor like
your computer monitor, you see the interlaced lines giving a "comb"
effect on moving objects.

If your final output is to be viewed on a TV you just ignore it. If the
final output is to be viewed on a computer monitor you need to mess
around with deinterlacing.
--
Tim Mitchell

 

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"Tim Mitchell" <timng@sabretechnology.co.uk> wrote in message
news:mJeQLSH+EP9AFAWm@tega.co.uk...
> In article <40f4d416$0$19155$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Adam
Skeggs
> <askeggs@optusnet.com.auZZ> writes
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am getting horizontal spiky edges on moving objects on any video
I
> >import from my DV camera (Panasonic).
> >Playing from the camera direct to a TV is fine.
> >I have tried a few different software packages all with the same
> >result. I have fooled around with interlace and various capture
> >settings to no avail.
> >Is this something basic?
> >
> Yes it is.
>
> When you view the interlaced DV picture on a non-interlaced monitor
like
> your computer monitor, you see the interlaced lines giving a "comb"
> effect on moving objects.
>
> If your final output is to be viewed on a TV you just ignore it. If
the
> final output is to be viewed on a computer monitor you need to mess
> around with deinterlacing.

I should have mentioned that I made a VCD from this and it also had
the comb effect on the TV. Does this change anything?
Adam.

> --
> Tim Mitchell

 

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"Adam Skeggs" <askeggs@optusnet.com.auZZ> wrote:

>I should have mentioned that I made a VCD from this and it also had
>the comb effect on the TV. Does this change anything?

It sounds like you had the field order set incorrectly somewhere.
VCDs don't have interlaced video, so I suppose the setting must have
been incorrect in whatever program you used to do the VCD MPEG
encoding. DV video is supposed to be lower (B) field first.