I have read from a couple of forums and people seems to agree that capturing using FireWire will make an exact copy of the video from the tape to my hard drive. However, in my experience that is not the case. Even when playing the footage from my Sony HVR-Z1 to the computer through FireWire, it shows up worse than what is displaying on the little LCD monitor on the camera. The footage lost its saturation, contrast, and sharpness. The captured footage file shows the same problem. Why is it the captured copy lose so much of its quality during transfering from a tape to computer? How do I minimize this problem? Your help is much appreciated.
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