Building a Digital Video Capture System - Part II
Dazzle Digital Video Creator II, Continued
DVDit!'s opening screen.
I first tried to view the clip using the bundled version of the Microsoft Media Player but it was having a bad day for some reason. So, I fired up the bundled Sonic Solution DVDit! LE software, threw together a quick DVD title with menu buttons linking the clip, and ran the emulator. When I pressed the play button I was amazed. There was my clip running full-screen, 30fps with no glitches or heavy artifacting at all. The image was beautiful.
Dazzle's video adjustment pop-out panel.
I then went back and captured the full torture test clip and studied it in detail. Yes, in some spots there was MPEG-2 artifacting and the occasional macroblocks during really tough scenes, but overall I was still impressed with the quality. I did notice some over-saturation of colors in some scenes and that red-and-white striped fabric blossomed like a road flare for an instant but the settings page will let you adjust color, tint, saturation, contrast and brightness so I'm sure that with a little tweaking I could improve overall image quality.
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