Watching "Full" 720 x 575 DV Clips

[Debbie]

Hi Lawrence,

If it's any consolation, I have received a reply from Pure Motion Ltd saying that deinterlaceing is a must unless a sutable software player is found that would do the deinterlaceing.
A computer monitor is just not sutable for interlaced material.

Debbie

[Ted222]

Another solution, but expensive, is to get another hardware playback device.....like a Matrox RT card......getting cheaper all the time. I still have my G450eTV, but now I use my RT.x10 BOB and the difference is very pronounced. Makes editing a lot more fun too.

Ted

[jeff b]

Phew! What a boondoggle!

I switched over to DV a couple of years ago, effectively shifting my desktop video paradigm from the "computer based" digitizing of video with onboard capture card, etc., over to everything video residing outside the computer.

This is what DV and IEEE1394 is all about: a cheap data channel. The camcorder is now the "capture card" that transcodes video from the analog world to the digital world.

I don't preview video using the computer monitor, I send it out IEEE-1394 and watch it on a very inexpensive TV set.

I could never quite bring myself to remain stuck in the "onboard capture card" world, once DV hit the street. And I've been very happy ever since. No expensive graphics cards, no expensive capture cards, no elaboate additions to my basic MSP editing platform.

So my question for Debbie is, "Why bother watching it on the computer monitor?" It looks so much nicer on a TV set... which is so much cheaper than onboard graphics solutions.

Jeff B

[Ted222]

Oh and with the RT card you get a scalable window for DV playback that is also much higher resolution than using Microsoft's player.

Ted

[Debbie]

Jeff,

I quite agree with you, if you are producing for DVD what's the point in watching your finished product on a 17 inch computer monitor ??? But, at least for me, finding a solution to problems is part of the fun.
If there will be no possible solution I would have at least tried, then I would "pack up and call it a day"

Debbie

[jeff b]

Definitely on topic to figure out how to do things along this line, that's for sure!

I imagine that a few years from now, whatever digital mainstream media ends up being, we'll no longer have those analog TV sets as part of our setups... then we'll be longing for the "good ole days" when it was this easy!

Jeff B

[Eddy]

With VirtualDub it is possible to add a deinterlacing filter and play the processed video in real-time (if your system is fast enough). The input and output windows can be swapped so the output window is on the left (helps if your resolution is not high enough to show both).

Eddy.