video picture quality

For 2 years now I have unsuccessfully captured video from my DV cam to my PC in the quality I am able to preview captured video on my TV. On small preview screen the picture does not look too bad but on full screen it is poor. I have used XP/Pinnacle and
VideoWave to try and sort the issue out. This Xmas I bought a new top of range PC and nothing seems to improve. I've tried capturing in all resolutions and played around with the viewing resolution.
My question is....can anybody copy tiop quality video from camera to PC and then in turn burn on to DVD in the quality that should be possible from digital technology. If so please tell me in idiots language how you do it. Thanks

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I can tell you how I do it.... and the final DVD looks good on my 65" HDTV.

Capture through firewire cable..... highest resolution possible (DV-AVI)....
edit in MovieMaker2.... then save final version in DV-AVI...

Then use Roxio 6 to create the DVD.... and Roxio EZ CD/DVD Creator is
WITHOUT the updates which affect the pixelation.... they're still working on
one that works correctly, see the Roxio forums.

Try to keep the final DV-AVI file at about 1 hour 40 minutes which fits on
to a DVD-R....get Roxio to make the iso file in case I need to make more
than one DVD... burn the image file to the DVD.

If I capture analog video (ie a tv show) I try to take an s-video feed from
my satellite receiver direct into the digital camcorder and then capture the
digital footage to the PC. If I cannot capture direct from the satellite
receiver, I use S-VHS tapes and SP on my S-VHS VCR... then capture via
S-Video and audio cable from the VCR to the digital camcorder, I never try
to capture analog video straight to the PC, it just doesn't like it!

DVI files are big... I have over 400gb of hard drive space on my main PC....
or rather had 400gb... it's more like 150gb free now! I must do some
transfering!

Cari
www.coribright.com

"aspinalli" wrote in message
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For 2 years now I have unsuccessfully captured video from my DV cam to my
PC in the quality I am able to preview captured video on my TV. On small
preview screen the picture does not look too bad but on full screen it is
poor. I have used XP/Pinnacle and VideoWave to try and sort the issue
out. This Xmas I bought a new top of range PC and nothing seems to
improve. I've tried capturing in all resolutions and played around with
the viewing resolution.
My question is....can anybody copy tiop quality video from camera to PC
and then in turn burn on to DVD in the quality that should be possible
from digital technology. If so please tell me in idiots language how you
do it. Thanks