Video quality

I Work on W movie Maker

I transfered my video on my DV camera but the quality is very bad....! What can I do to improve it as to have the original DV quality?

Cari
Fri Dec 19 18:37:11 CST 2003

How did you capture it? Via firewire?

Cari
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"Barfly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I Work on W movie Maker 2
>
> I transfered my video on my DV camera but the quality is very bad....!
> What can I do to improve it as to have the original DV quality?

Scott
Mon Dec 22 11:44:51 CST 2003

Why should that matter? Once the video is converted to digital it stays
that way. The DV camera does the digital conversion, the "wire" to get it
from the camera to the computer is only about speed, the zeros and ones of
the video on the camera get transferred to computer as the exact same zeros
and ones.

I suspect that the bad quality on the computer is due to one of several
other things:

Bad video codecs
Wrong output type selection
Slow or fragmented hard drive


"Cari MS-MVP" <Newsgroups1@coribright.comn> wrote in message
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> How did you capture it? Via firewire?
>
> Cari
> www.coribright.com
>
> "Barfly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4926FDF2-4452-4EC4-AF2E-38444C95ACEB@microsoft.com...
> >I Work on W movie Maker 2
> >
> > I transfered my video on my DV camera but the quality is very bad....!
> > What can I do to improve it as to have the original DV quality?
>
>

Richard
Tue Dec 23 16:18:41 CST 2003

Scott,
Don't get too arrogant. I understand why you would believe
that it doesn't matter -but it does!
Most USB transfers from DV camcorders default to USB 1.1
speeds (even if you have USB 2.0 on your computer) and low
quality MPEG 1.
Firwewire transfers are executed at the 400Mbps speed and
MPEG 2 (DVD quality).
I best guess is that you are transferring using USB and
not Firewire.


>-----Original Message-----
>Why should that matter? Once the video is converted to
digital it stays
>that way. The DV camera does the digital conversion,
the "wire" to get it
>from the camera to the computer is only about speed, the
zeros and ones of
>the video on the camera get transferred to computer as
the exact same zeros
>and ones.
>
>I suspect that the bad quality on the computer is due to
one of several
>other things:
>
>Bad video codecs
>Wrong output type selection
>Slow or fragmented hard drive
>
>
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>> How did you capture it? Via firewire?
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>> Cari
>> www.coribright.com
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>> "Barfly" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>> news:4926FDF2-4452-4EC4-AF2E-
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>> >I Work on W movie Maker 2
>> >
>> > I transfered my video on my DV camera but the quality
is very bad....!
>> > What can I do to improve it as to have the original
DV quality?
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

Aloke
Tue Dec 23 17:09:23 CST 2003

I thought Fire-wire transfers from a DV camera uses a much less compressed
codec, DV-AVI (approx 13 gig/hour) . You lose quality when encoding this to
DVD quality MPEG-2 (approx 7 gigs/hour, although this can vary).

The best way of storing/archiving edited videos is back to a DV tape. I
typically produce a DVD for the ease of viewing the videos.
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"Richard" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Firwewire transfers are executed at the 400Mbps speed and
> MPEG 2 (DVD quality).

Scott
Tue Dec 23 17:53:09 CST 2003

> Scott,
> Don't get too arrogant.

I'm not, but thanks for the kind words.

> I understand why you would believe that it doesn't matter -but it does!
> Most USB transfers from DV camcorders default to USB 1.1
> speeds (even if you have USB 2.0 on your computer) and low
> quality MPEG 1.

MPEG 1 is the encoding scheme for the video. The wire doesn't determine the
encoding scheme. The wire only determines how much data can move from point
A to point B in a given time.

> Firwewire transfers are executed at the 400Mbps speed and MPEG 2 (DVD
quality).

Again MPEG 2 is an encoding scheme which is not determined by the wire it
moves across.

anonymous
Wed Jan 07 09:31:24 CST 2004

but you didn't help the problem (i'm having the same) when i watch the video from the cd or from my hard drive (after transferring it from the camera to my computer) -it's perfect. but when i play it back from WMM the quality is really bad. HELP!