capture (format)

Sargan wrote on 2/3/2010, 3:32 PM

Trying to increase my knowledge … for conversion of SVHS tapes, edit in VMS, and eventually onto DVD.
Read on the “Digital Faq” that you should capture using uncompressed (YUY2) or Low Compression codec (HUFFYUV)
I’m using a DV capture device (ADVC300) , and running the capture on Sony Vegas, this defaults to DV or DVD …. I select DV and looking at resultant saved file details is shows:

Format : Digital Video
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 1h 18mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 5:4
Original display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Interlaced
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Stream size : 15.8 GiB (95%)

Should I be looking at changing the codec to HUFFYUV ? …… does VMS even support doing that ?

Comments

Former user wrote on 2/3/2010, 6:12 PM

Your capture device, the ADVC300, converts the analog video to a DV AVI. You should just keep it in the this format for editing and render to MPEG2 for the DVD. You won't gain anything by converting or trying to capture this as uncompressed or any other codec.

If you were going to be rendering and editing that render several times (generations) then you might want to render to uncompressed to avoid quality loss down the road. But for now, just leave it as a DV and enjoy the editing.

Dave T2