Quality Loss With Hard Drive Camera

[Geo73]

Your camcorder is a hard drive camcorder. You don't capture, at all. You simply connect it to your computer, and copy the files, from the camcorder, to a pre-made folder, on your computer hard drive, just like you would copy any files, from one place to another.

 

I have a further problem. Files from my panasonic hdd camera are recorded to my hard drive as mpeg files. When I transfer the footage to Roxio 9 I lose quality.

 

The quality loss isnt an issue when I utilise panasonics software, however the panasonic software cant do what roxio can with editing.

 

can somebody help?

[Geo73]

Whoever you talked to, at Panasonic, is a bonehead!

 

You have a hard drive camcorder. You don't capture anything. You connect it, to the computer, and you COPY the folders/files to a folder, on your computer hard drive, just like you would copy any file, from one place to another.

 

Then, if you want to edit the video, open VideoWave (Edit Video-Advanced), click on File/New Production, then pick Normal or Widescreen.

 

Next, click on Add Photo/Video, browse to the folder where your files are, and bring in the video. I believe the files are in the Video_TS folder, but I am not sure about the structure on hard drive camcorders.

 

My issue is the quality of the picture once I transfer the mpeg files to Roxio and burn a dvd. The software panasonic came with is useless however the quality is much better.

 

Do you know how i can rectify the quality issue?

 

Your help would be much appreciated.

[sknis]

Download and run gspot on the file. Tell us what the specifics are on the video and what audio. 720 is pretty much 720 and bits per second are usually the same. If you are doing HD, that may be something else.

 

What computer hardware are you using?