Quality degredation of clips with rapid movement

[rassione]

Please help!

I am an instructor at a local university trying to hand out DVD movie to my students. I have a big problem, when capturing my footage from a one megapixel camcorder to Viedowave software (that came with the computer) I get discountinous,low quality images in rapid movement clips only. The actual playpack on the camcorder is flawless.

The clips or scenes that have no fast movement are excellent in quality. After compression with mpeg2, the DVD with quick movement are discountinous, they seem to jump. Why is this??

Is it...
1. My Videowave? I see that all professionals are using premiere

2. My original compression from the camcorder?

The capture mode in videowate is AVI, the individual clips are 29.97 fps, 24 bitperpixel, DVSoft compression, 720X480 pixels, data rate 3524 kb/sec.

I really do appreciate your time you are giving a teacher!! Its extremely hard to find this knowledge on the web. I would be very appreciative of any sort of help or direction.

 

[leonec]

Do you have Premiere? If so use it to capture your movie, it uses the same driver but Premiere will allow greater flexability on how to capture the footage. i.e. format, quality, size, data rate, codec options...etc. The software that usually "comes" with camcorders is pretty poor, and also mask alot of options that should be available, because they want it to be very easy and user friendly for the end user so they don't get a lot of customer phone calls on "how do you do this?" Just remember that if you want to capture really good quality clips that you need a lot of HDD space!