Capture problems

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Bobjax

Using a Diamond vc500 amd the supplied One Touch Video Capture software, I
was able to caapture from a camcorder 8mm tape, but with poor quality. Using
Movie Maker, the preview window was much better but the captured material was
absolutely useless...it showed what appeared to be hundreds of very fine
diagonel lines, no picures whatsoever. Movie Maker won't accept the material
captured with the One Touch software. Any help will be most appreciated.
Take care.
 
Bobjax said:
Using a Diamond vc500 amd the supplied One Touch Video Capture
software, I was able to caapture from a camcorder 8mm tape, but with
poor quality. Using Movie Maker, the preview window was much better
but the captured material was absolutely useless...it showed what
appeared to be hundreds of very fine diagonel lines, no picures
whatsoever. Movie Maker won't accept the material captured with the
One Touch software. Any help will be most appreciated. Take care.
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According to the "specifications" tab at the website below, that device ONLY
captures in MPEG-4,2,1 formats.

http://www.diamondmm.com/VC500.php

I don't know what it 'defaults' to, but if it's MPEG-4 you're going to have
problems with WMM.

Look around in the device's options for how to change it's output format to
MPEG-2.

In my experience WMM seems to deal with MPEG-2 better than 1, but not at all
with 4.

Alternatively, the website also mentions that your device comes with Ulead
Video Studio for editing, so you always have that to fall back on.

Good Luck
 
It is often the case you get what you pay for with these sorts of devices.
Most capture to a compressed format. I' recommend looking at canopus advc
range of products which will allow you to capture as a dv.avi file using
movie maker and it will giove you the best quality you'll get. Only problem
is it's not dirt cheap, but how much do you want those memories?

Graham
 
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