I have just purchased a Moviebox Plus with Studio 12. I have no problem capturing DV but when I capture analogue the previewed and captured film is very jerky. I have Vista 32 bit with SP1 and graphics card GMA 3100 286MB. Would this be a compatibility problem with the PC rather than something I am doing wrong with Moviebox?

Capturing with composite is surprisingly much more resource hungry as the Moviebox converts the feed in digital and then passes it through the USB port. Are you using a desktop or a laptop computer? What are you capturing from and are you using any splitters to do so? In the meantime try and do a test capture without the preview. Just to see if the quality improves.

I agree with Marc.

Analog capture requires a heck of resources than DV Capture.

You might want to try some of the things here:

http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/post/296552.aspx 

Also, posting your system specs would help. Turning off all your running programs that take up resources can help also.

Yes, definitely. Booting clean does wonders.

Thanks - after trying a few of your suggestions the quality is much better only a slight flickery line right at the bottom of the screen - perhaps that is the best I can get with analogue.

Does this flickery line stay in one spot at the very edge of the video? Overscan perhaps?

Yes the flickery line stays at the bottom edge of the video - what is overscan?

When you watch this footage on the TV, I'm sure you will not find this there.

From how I understand it, Overscan are areas that the TV hide, since capture devices record the whole image, the result is you get everything even the parts that the TV is supposed to cover up.

I hope I made sense trying to explain that.

Thanks - that made perfect sense and you are right now I have copied it to DVD and played it on the TV it doesn't show.

morganventura:

Thanks - that made perfect sense and you are right now I have copied it to DVD and played it on the TV it doesn't show.

Did ya make sure it was set to "full dvd quality"? If not that might be the problem, I'm no expert, but there's my two cents, well....okay maybe more like one cent XD

What settings did you use when you burned the project?

I also had problems with poor quality analog capture from my 8mm camcorder using Movie Box 12 Ultimate. I spent weeks attempting to correct the problem. Although my computer met the minimum requirements I decided it had to be a hardware issue and eventually upgraded my CPU, memory and hard drive. Nothing worked! Last night I solved the problem, maybe this will work for you too: In Studio 12 select capture > settings. capture sources> put a check in the vcr input box.

Thanks rcw for sharing that.

That trick was suggested by our regular members. It was included in my simple guide here.

rcw:

I also had problems with poor quality analog capture from my 8mm camcorder using Movie Box 12 Ultimate. I spent weeks attempting to correct the problem. Although my computer met the minimum requirements I decided it had to be a hardware issue and eventually upgraded my CPU, memory and hard drive. Nothing worked! Last night I solved the problem, maybe this will work for you too: In Studio 12 select capture > settings. capture sources> put a check in the vcr input box.

Yes this works well for problematic captures with tape based players. I remember the 1st time I used this, it worked like a charm.