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Offline Suave

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« on: November 29, 2006, 12:36:22 AM »
When I save video from camera to my pc the color quality sucks bellybutton even in the highest quality formats.

On a video monitor the video looks great, but once I load it on my pc the colors are very dulled. I can increase the brigtness when I save the clip but that just washes the allready dulled colors.

It's not my monitor because video from other sources, ie. dvd, downloads, look fine.

What should I do? Buy a mac?
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Offline Westy

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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2006, 09:32:17 AM »
It may be a display setting within the program (or programs) you're using?  

 I've been converting our home movies (8mm and Digital8 camcorder tapes) to DVD for the past year.  Just as an FYI I connect our Sony Digital8 camcorder via Firewire to the PC and then I use Sony Vegas software to capture the video. After I may use Virtualdub to edit the AVI into different parts if needed and then I use Canopus Procoder 2 to convert the AVI files into the proper DVD format (wav and mpv files).  I'll then use TMPGenc DVD Author to actually create the DVD which I then run through DVDshrink to scan it for errors and to create an ISO image which I'll then burn to a blank DVD+R disc.
 
 What are you using?
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2006, 10:26:30 AM »
what does it look like when you burn it to dvd and play it on your tv?

I use firewire from a sony camera into Studio 8 to capture and edit it up then have it make the dvd files which I burn using Nero
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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2006, 03:59:10 PM »
I'm using windows movie maker. I haven't burned a dvd yet.
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Offline Westy

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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2006, 04:20:13 PM »
FWIW .... XP's movie maker is not a good choice.  It doesn't convert the captured video into a format that most "good" programs can use to compile and then author a DVD with.  You may be seeing the actual "quality" of the video (due to massive compression and the WMV format) that movie maker is going render for your CD....
 
"Movie Maker ... is a video editing tool that can burn videos to CD by using the CD-burning capabilities built in to Windows XP. But CDs only hold about 700 MB of data—not enough for a high quality video. And Windows Media Video 9 files on a CD aren't playable by current DVD players."

 There are however a lot of programs out there. You can go with an "all-in-one" which will give good/ok movies to view or use multiple programs (my method) to better handle the specific steps along the way for (imo) superior results.

 I recommend a visit to this this site   http://www.videohelp.com/

  They have more info than you can shake a stick at there.  Lots of guides, reviews and links for hardware and programs (free as well as pay types) for capturing, converting, authoring and burning.
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Offline croduh

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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2006, 04:25:25 PM »
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Originally posted by Westy
Digital8 camcorder tapes) to DVD for the past year.  Just as an FYI I connect our Sony Digital8 camcorder via Firewire to the PC


I'll have to do that soon.And learn how to do that even sooner;)
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