Importing/Output Quality Issue

[Guest]

I have a Sony DV Camera. I have captured the video to my computer using Sony's ImageMixer software because WMM does not recognize my capture device.

When I burn a DVD from ImageMixer everything is great. However, I wanted to add a music clip to the movie, which Image Mixer dies not do.

I imported my captured video files into WMM and had no problem editing and adding my music. However, the quality of the video is terribly distorted. If I view the movie or clips in a tiny screen, it looks fine, however on the burned DVD or previewing the clips full screen it comes out terribly blurry and jumpy.

I have determined that the problem is occuring during the import process. Is there somthing I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

J

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

Are you using usb to connect the cam, if so you need to use firewire.
Graham
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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk

I have a Sony DV Camera. I have captured the video to my computer using

Sony's ImageMixer software because WMM does not recognize my capture device.

When I burn a DVD from ImageMixer everything is great. However, I wanted

to add a music clip to the movie, which Image Mixer dies not do.

I imported my captured video files into WMM and had no problem editing and

adding my music. However, the quality of the video is terribly distorted. If
I view the movie or clips in a tiny screen, it looks fine, however on the
burned DVD or previewing the clips full screen it comes out terribly blurry
and jumpy.

I have determined that the problem is occuring during the import process.

Is there somthing I am doing wrong?

 

[Bob [MVP]]

What format is the captured video that you are importing
into Movie Maker? If it's not DV-AVI, your video is
probably just suffering from artifacts resulting from
multiple compression steps.

Ideally you should re-encode to a different video format
only once -- when you create the DVD. Up until that final
step, you should start with, and keep your video in DV-AVI
format for best results.

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-Bob
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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome

I have a Sony DV Camera. I have captured the video to my computer using Sony's ImageMixer software because WMM does not recognize my capture device.

When I burn a DVD from ImageMixer everything is great. However, I wanted to add a music clip to the movie, which Image Mixer dies not do.

I imported my captured video files into WMM and had no problem editing and adding my music. However, the quality of the video is

terribly distorted. If I view the movie or clips in a tiny screen, it looks fine, however on the burned DVD or previewing the clips
full screen it comes out terribly blurry and jumpy.