James and Tony,
Thanks for the quick response and for saving me $175 on a new video
card! Its reassuring to know that mine isn't as bad as many of the
online comparison sites (and Windows Experience Index) labels it as.
I'll find out how to disable the ATI Stream Acceleration. I think I remember
seeing it either in the ATI Catalyst control center, or within the PD8
preferences tab.
Since my only projects for the next 2 months will be transferring AVCHD
basketball game clips to plain old DVD for the team to study, (no editing at
all), and I'm brand new to the entire video processing experience, this is
a bit frustrating. I didn't expect the DVD burn result to be crystal clear
like the source vid, but the output I'm getting is so cruddy, I'm scrambling
like mad to find an alternative solution using PD8 before the BBall coach
asks for the DVD tomorrow. If I can't get a PD8 solution in the next few
hours, I'll search the net for other options. I volunteered to do this to
help take some of the load off of another guy who video tapes the
games. He simply hooks up his HD Sony Camcorder to a box via USB
and burns the MPEG-2 DVD. It looks great in the DVD player. What is
it about those devices that make them burn DVD's so perfectly? I'd like
to find out what that "something" (a CODEC perhaps?) is and add it to
this P.C. to help out PD8.
James, since I'm new and don't have a need to do editing, the only
player I use is one of the stand-alone DVD players around the house,
since this is what the basketball team uses to critique their plays. But,
it was good to see that Windows Media Player does a good job of playing
AVCHD video inside of Windows7. IMO, that's the best improvement
windows7 has over Vista. Thanks again James. I'll follow your advice
now. Wish me luck!
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-Allen in Chicago
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