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I've been using iDVD 5 for a while now, and have nothing but excellent results. I was capturing with the Canopus ADVC - 110 directly with iMovie (from VHS or TV) and the picture quality was fine - I mean, as good as it gets.
About two weeks ago, I bought Elgato's EyeTV - I love the product, and the quality is very nice - So, having both machines hooked up to my computer (iMac G5), I decided to copy my VHS tape with EyeTV instead this time (which can't go through iMovie) - you have to export it to DV and then import into iMove - but it's all really simple with the EyeTV software. Well, I put it together and "created an iDVD project" right from iMovie - but the video itself looked horrible! When people were just sitting and talking it was fine - the second someone moved I saw ridges around their outlines (weird because the video background was fine).
My dvd also kept skipping and freezing *the dvd brand was Memorex - I know they suck* but I was using it to "test" really. I thought "Ok, it's just the dvd" and burned it on a Taiyo Yuden - same thing, minus the freezing/skipping - the picture was horrible.
I decided to capture directly with iMovie and did a small test clip from the same vhs (which was poor quality to begin with) and it looked fine burned with iDVD - So what gives here? I'm now capturing all the video again. I know you can't really make a vhs look better by transferring it to DVD, HOWEVER, I swear it's more clear - and I was wondering if it looked funny BECAUSE it was more clear and tecnically isn't supposed to be? You know what I mean?
Do you think it had anything to do with iDVD itself and the encoding? I hope not - and I doubt it - but does anyone have ANY suggestions?
Thanks!
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