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4eyes wrote on 6/17/2007, 6:06 AM
have a Sony HDR-HC3.
My HDR-HC3 does not record ugly videos and motion.
Mine and others I've seen record beautiful HighDef Videos and the motion is better than any one of my standard DV cams. Great consumer HighDef camcorder.

If your getting bad video you may not be playing them back correctly on your computer system.
How are you capturing the videos and then playing them back?
Remko wrote on 6/17/2007, 1:49 PM
You are right, I have to explain al bit more. The images of the HCR3 are indeed very wel, but if objects move on the movie or the video camera moves, if you play them on the computer, the interlaced images are mixed together to 1080 lines.
But 540 lines are of a scene, which is already being moved a bit, which means that straight lines become blurred.
It is a known problem, you can read it on the net.
But I don't know how to get rid of this. It should be possible.
Remko wrote on 6/17/2007, 1:51 PM
BTW, I just use the capture video function of Vegas
4eyes wrote on 6/17/2007, 7:59 PM
You can de-interlace the hd video, but then you will lose all the good smooth motion in the video.
What I do is use a good software & hardware combination on the computer that is HD-Certified.
Check out the HD Certified Video cards made by ATI and their suggested playback software.
The task of taking interlaced video & displaying it on a computer screen (non-interlaced) is known as de-interlacing or blending. There are a few methods used to achieve this for smooth playback on a computer screen (computer screens are frame based).

On my system the software playback along with the video card perform de-interlacing & blending to correctly display HD-Video on the computer screen. So it's in the software and also the video card is performing hardware de-interlacing/blending.
On my system the files playback very smooth on the computer screen. They look fantasic, I really attribute this to the ATI hd certified video card (of course along with the player).
Remko wrote on 6/22/2007, 2:13 PM
Ok. Thnx.
My computer system is already 3 years old, I have enough memory (2 Gb) and harddisk, but my video-card is a NVidia GEFORCE FX 5200. So that might be the problem.
Does this mean that my captured recordings will perform well on a new system?

4eyes wrote on 6/22/2007, 8:10 PM
You would think a new computer would, but if the video card is not HD Certified and also the playback software then no.
Download the trial version of "PowerDvd7 Ultra/Deluxe" and see it you have better results. I don't know if the 5200 uses purevision and has HD accelleration, if it does then PDVD7 will access it and use it.
PowerDvd7 is HD certified, nice program.