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[sealslumber]

Hello, I am new to Roxio and am trying to transfer some VCR tapes to DVD. These are 2-hour VCR tapes of motorcycle racing. I capture the tape to the computer then edit it with Videowave. Then burn it to the DVD using MyDVD. The resulting DVD when played back on the TV has a bad shadow/blurred effect when showing the motor bikes. Video of object that are not moving fast look like the VCR tape video. What are the best setting to use when there is a lot of fast motion in the video ?

Thanks
Joe

System spec:
WinXP Pro (sp2)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ATI All In Wondow Radon 8500DV
DirectX 9.0c

[myguggi]

sealslumber, on Jan 16 2006, 09:51 PM, said:

Hello, I am new to Roxio and am trying to transfer some VCR tapes to DVD. These are 2-hour VCR tapes of motorcycle racing. I capture the tape to the computer then edit it with Videowave. Then burn it to the DVD using MyDVD. The resulting DVD when played back on the TV has a bad shadow/blurred effect when showing the motor bikes. Video of object that are not moving fast look like the VCR tape video. What are the best setting to use when there is a lot of fast motion in the video ?

Thanks
Joe

System spec:
WinXP Pro (sp2)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ATI All In Wondow Radon 8500DV
DirectX 9.0c

If you are putting 2 full two hours on a DVD then you will lose a lot of quality especially since you are using analog VHS. You would be better off to split the video into 2 hours segments. A DVD can only contain 60 minutes of best quality video. Anything longer will require more compression and result in loss of quality.
To what format are you capturing the video from your tape? Capturing to avi will give better quality then to mpeg but creates very large files.

[sealslumber]

The tapes are only 2 hours long. I forgot to mention I am using dual layer dvd's. I would like to get the best quality picture I can get. I did do the capture to mpeg. I will try it with avi and see if that helps any.

Thanks