Interlacing when transferring from MiniDV? in the Vimeo Cameras Forum

apsk121 2 months ago

I've never really transferred video from tape to my PC before.
I tried last weekend though. I used a Sony TRV-22E MiniDV Camcorder to record the video and transferred it via firewire through iMovie on my Macbook.

The raw video which is about 11GB is not the quality I expected. It's interlaced and blurry when something moves.

Is this just how the video is captured or am I doing something wrong?
Eugenia Loli-Queru 2 months ago

Yes, all consumer cameras are interlaced. You edit as is, with the interlacing, but you export in progressive for Vimeo and the Web/PC. Check the exporting HD tutorials on Vimeo, they are the same for you except that the resolution for you would be 880x480 and the bitrate 3000 kbps. Everything else is the same.
apsk121 2 months ago

Nobody can help me figure this out?
Video by Wes 2 months ago

I got the same results when transferring to a Mac from a mini DV tape. It was nowhere near the same quality as when I transferred on a PC using Premiere Pro. You might have to check the settings in your software, they might not default to the highest possible quality.
You might want to make sure your computer is only digitizing the footage, and not a lot of other tasks at the same time. There are many sites that handle just this issue, step by step with illustrations and all that. But you may have already found them by now. At any rate, good luck!

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