[pjc99]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you could help me out. I have EMC 9 Deluxe Suite and when capturing video from a vcr on the high quality setting, i burn it play it on a dvd player and its worse than the vhs. Could this be because of my crappy vcr or the settings that I am using. Also on everything I convert I am having to spend hours to have it burn and I have to split up DVD's like Dumb and Dumber. Is this normal? Please help...

[james_hardin]

It is a little hard to follow what you are doing…

IF you are capturing at highest quality then you need to be burning at the same quality. However we would need details on what program you are using to capture and importantly, how you are capturing?

Then move onto burning. What program and what settings?

Lastly, what are you playing it on? DVD Player? PC?

No idea what you are talking about on the second problem???

[gi7omy]

In addition to what James said, you should know that the definition on VCR is normally poor to start with and that can't be improved on

Also, the means of capture is important - if you are using the RF output to feed a TV card in the computer, there will be a further drop as it gets upconverted and downconverted back again

Composite signal is nearly as bad - if you have the facility for S-VHS, that's about the least lossy option

[ggrussell]

... DVD's like Dumb and Dumber. Is this normal? Please help...

If you are trying to copy commercial VHS tape to DVD, there is macrovision encoded on the tape to prevent you from doing this. If it is circumvented, the quality will most likely be degraded because of it.

[pjc99]

It is a little hard to follow what you are doing…

IF you are capturing at highest quality then you need to be burning at the same quality. However we would need details on what program you are using to capture and importantly, how you are capturing?

Then move onto burning. What program and what settings?

Lastly, what are you playing it on? DVD Player? PC?

No idea what you are talking about on the second problem???

Okay I am using Media Capture program, the dazzle device and I have a composite video out signal going into a Radio Shack Stereo A/V Selector which converts the signal to S-Video. Then the output from that to the Dazzle is S-Video. Also is there any way to compress movies so that they fit on 1 dvd even with the high quality setting on?

If you are trying to copy commercial VHS tape to DVD, there is macrovision encoded on the tape to prevent you from doing this. If it is circumvented, the quality will most likely be degraded because of it.

So is that with new VHS's or all...

[ggrussell]

Macrovision has been around for a long time. Probably 15 years or longer. As far as I know, all commercial tapes have used for some time. When trying to copy from VCR to VCR, it shows up as poor picture with multicolored, diagonal lines running through the video or sometimes you will see the color fade in and out with vertical rolling. ALL VCRs sold in the USA is required to recognize the signal to prevent copying.

This post has been edited by ggrussell: 24 February 2007 - 01:42 PM

[tbrewst]

Also is there any way to compress movies so that they fit on 1 dvd even with the high quality setting on?

When you create the DVD first burn it to an .img file in MYDVD.Then take the img and burn it to a disc using disc copier.It should compress it to fit on 1 disc.