I got me a new little ****** Hi8 camera, the picture looks good when I play it back, but when I try to capture with Vegas 4.0, through a s-video cable, there are black lines going through the picture and I can't get any non-blurry pictures out of the video when I freeze-frame it, any suggestions?

 

talk to Underzen, he's got a similiar setup..... Shoulda went with MiniDV though

 

Mom bought the camera, I wasn't gonna complain

 

I tried a different program, with the same results, when i play it, the preview pane looks fine, but it recors choppy as can be.

 

Try using the rca cables...just to see if there is a difference...maybe the s-video cable is f*cked

 

I figured if the S-Video cable was ****ed, it wouldn't look so good in the preview pane?

 

take a look at this pic. do the lines look like these.. and appear or get worse when there is a lot of movement (versus slow movement)?? if so.. you're talking about the interlacing between the frames.



if not.. can you upload a short clip or a freeze frameof what they look like?

 

aye, thats it.

 

yea, that is interlacing. when you capture the video.. look in the settings for a drop down menu or a toggle that says, "odd field first" and "even field first"

it will probably be defaulted on odd. set it to the other option, capture some, and see if the problem is fixed. if that doesn't fix it, go back to what it was set at, and then you'll want to deinterlace as the last step before editing them.

basically, here's the deal.. digital video cameras nowadays (most of them) have approx 30 frames per second.. but each frame consists of two fields, which are filled in 2 seperate passes. What those lines are.. you are actually seeing video from 1/60th of a second ahead. It becomes more pronounced when the camera is moving a lot, because the video from 1/60th ahead looks so much different.

You won't notice the interlacing on a TV like you would on your computer monitor, because of the way NTSC tv's display video.. they are designed to display interlaced video.. whereas your computer monitor (and windows media player) like progressive scan, which is true X frames per second video, with one single field for each frame.

So.. in a nutshell, check to see if you have the field order reversed. if not, and you plan to watch it on the tv, check it there and it shouldn't be a problem. if you plan to watch on a computer, you will need to deinterlace your video using adobe afterFX or a similar program. I can walk you through this if you need, but if you don't have afterFX and you've never used it.. you might be in over your head.

Lemme know if anything i said didn't make sense.. it is 8am.

 

In which case, it's not a problem - unless you want to edit directly for viewing on computers rather than for viewing on a TV