Hi guys, I really need some help, please.
I have been copying video to SVCD but the quality is "poor" (it would be better copied to VHS than SVCD) - I am sure its in the settings I am using but, even after reading the help files I'm still no wiser!

Camera is Sony (DV) Handycam connects to PC with 1394 Firewire.
PC is 1200 Duron, 140Gb HDD (Total), ATI AIW 128 AGP card, Creative 1024 sound, O/S is Win2K.

Software is Pinnacle Stidio 8

Any advice would be great - thanks

Well your Problem probably lies in the Encoder you are useing to encode to Mpeg/SVCD..I guess You are useing Studio 8 for encodeing also??So Do the Captures Look good But they Just don"t look good after you encode and burn them??What would Probably be the best would be to Capture with Say "Adobe Premier 6.5" then you can edit and add effects then export to any number of High Quality encoders that can be used as Plugins..but I guess you don"t want to go out a rush to get it so what you could do is Capture your DV/AVI file and use a Mpeg encoder Like Tmpgenc which can be downloaded for free to encode the DV to Mpeg2/SVCD with Much better Quality than Pinnacle could ever dream of..But capture to the Highest Quality settings possible..

Thanks for the reply. Yes, when I capture DV the quality is fine so I guess it must be the encoding process thats letting it down. I have tried simply dragging files to Nero and letting that encode and also Pinnacle. Both seem to give really poor results.

I've downloaded the programme you suggested and I'll give that a try.