Transfering from mini-dv. Stuck at 360x288?

Post by **sufian** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:47 am

My question to those who have had there super8 telecined films transfered from mini-dv to your pc's for editing.

Those that have done it, at what resolution do you capture your video? For some reason I can only capture it at 360 x 288 (half the resolution of 720 x 576).

I wish to capture it at full resolution 720x576 and then scale it down to 480 which I think is a decent size for online viewing.

I'm capturing from a mini-dv tape using firewire. All the settings tell it to capture at 720 but when played back the video is half the resolution.

Any ideas why it's doing this?

Regards,

Post by **sunrise** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:56 am

You have to tell us what software and what codec you are using. How do you change your settings?

michael

Post by **sufian** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:01 am

sunrise wrote:You have to tell us what software and what codec you are using. How do you change your settings?

michael

Sorry. I'm using Adobe Premiere 6.5 to capture it. Capture settings are all set to 720x576. Capturing it using microsofts dv codec.

Post by **sunrise** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:21 am

You should be able to change this in project settings and capture settings.

I actually didn't think that a DV codec would allow for frame size other than standard. Are you shure you are not talking preview window resolution instead?

michael

Post by **sunrise** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:32 am

Re-read your question...

Try quality settings in the monitor window. Or try doing an export and see what it comes up with. You should be able to tell if it's half-res.

michael

Post by **sufian** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:36 am

In Explorer, when I right click on the file and go to its properties.. it's saying its 720 x 576, but the video itself is half. (at 100% zoom)

I just tried capturing it with windows media player using the windows media codec 9 and it allows me to capture it at 720 res, but the fps are a bit choppy. I'm gonna keep on experimenting.

Post by **Dave Anderson** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:39 pm

Are you capturing it as .avi?

Dave

Post by **sufian** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:12 pm

Dave Anderson wrote:Are you capturing it as .avi?

Dave

Yes.

I've seem to have found the problem. For some reason, the MS DV codec only captures video at half the resolution. I tried a different DV codec called MainConcept, and it gave me the same results. The pictures was halved at 360 x 288.

I tried capturing it with other non-dv codecs like DivX and Indeo and they all seem to capture it at the resolution I specify (720x576), but the end result is not very good (low quality and choppy frame rates)

So there is a problem with the DV codecs. Might be a Windows XP issue. I'll see if I can use someones Mac to capture the dv and put it on a dvd-r.

Post by **digvid** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:28 am

Are you using Windows 2000? On Windows 2000, the default playback size for all DV is half-size. This means you could actually be capturing at full PAL resolution (as the file properties indicate), but your media player is scaling it down when it plays it. If so, you may be able to access the codec from the file properties and change the default to full size.

Post by **T-Scan** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:50 am

I use Sony Vegas to capture miniDV.. and this topic made me double check. 720X480 is what I'm getting. have WinXP OS.