Poor Quality Video Capture

[Akshat hi-tech]

Hello to everyone,
I am having Sony DCRTRV 340 e handycam (digital) & P-3 1.13 Ghz system with 256 mb ram installed with PCI firewire card(1394). Now problem is that whenever I capture video using firewire card its not as good as it should be even in DV format( which is almost loss less) thinking about this now i am shifting to hp pavilllion laptop.
So i would like to ask u wether my current 1394 card will be usefull or i would require to purchase new and also whether internal 1394 card will be available.

Please recommend a good video capturing software price no bar.(Preferably without video review window to minimise memmory consumption.)
Please reply:akshatkul@Gmail.com

[VideoEditingIndia]

There is nothing to do with your firewire card for video quality.

The problem may be with your 1. Camera or the 2. DV Codec

I assume, your camera is good. You can try to capture in another DV Codecs like Avid, Canopus, MainConcept, Sony, Panasonic, Matrox or BlackMagic DV Codecs. I personally like AVID and Panasonic Codecs.

If you are not satisfied any of the above you can try some lossless codecs like HuffYUV, MSU, PicVideo or MJPEG or PhotoJpeg.

[Akshat hi-tech]

Thanks for ur reply
is it possible that it is only happening due to older computer i.e less faster?

[amrawtanshx]

^^
Older comp isn't the culprit.

As VideoEditingIndia specified it must be 1. Camera or the 2. DV Codec

[MasterMinds]

i think older computer is no culprit.......the codecs are and in rare case the cam itself...