I have a Canon MV600 digital camcorder which connects to the pc via firewire, I tried to copy a clip fom the camcorder to the pc to put on disc and frankly the quaility was p!ss poor, is this down to using windows XP movie maker to capture it? Basicly I want to copy from the tape to cd without losing quality, have I done something wrong or do I need a better piece of software to capture with?

Could it just be the viewer your using to watch the captered video? I was a bit dissapointed when I first tried this with my Win98 PC. I was using the software I got with the firewire card. Once I had encoded it and watched in on the TV it was great.

I've not used XP, so don't know what the moviemaker is like. Does it have it's own encoder for MPG2? I assume it's capturing the video as an uncompressed AVI..?

basicly gave me choice of diff formats nts pal ect with diff rates so I chose the pal one and then the highest I could and both came out very blocky, will prob look into a more advanced capture software.

[Edited by Krade - 9/26/2003 11:56:59 AM]

DV is normally PAL at 25fps 720x534 (i think) resolution. The initial capture should be in uncompressed AVI format (ie huge file sizes!! ;)). Is this what you're getting? From this you can encode onto MPEG2 for DVD or SVCD. Not sure what encoder you're using. Some are better than others (by quite a way)...

Ill haver another bash at it tonight as Im at work and cant remember excatly how or what I did :)
Ta for the help tho :)