Why is s-video lossless capturing less Hi8 image?

[Jamestq]

Hi im just comparing Hi8 footage I captured first using a digital 8 camera via firewire and then using a capture card via s-video. I like how the color and noise is much better but i'm really confused as to why the aspect ratio is so zoomed in on the S Video captured video. Notice how there is image data missing to the left and right of the fridge and the image looks ugly and stretched. the DV captured images scale looks true to life and there seems to be more data there but the color and noise is worse.

Can someone educate me, what's going on?

I know that lossless AVI does not have an aspect ratio so i set both videos to 4:3 in VLC and both videos are 720x480

Thank you.

[Jamestq]

Here is the image not sure why it isn't showing in original post

[latreche34]

This is probably your capture card, You may want to try a different capture card or a TV with analog input that has the capability of "just scan" to show the entire video frame. Some capture cards crop automatically to 704 and rescale to 720 on the fly, Not sure why, but if you have one of those cards just toss it.

Lossless AVI don't have an aspect ratio, you set your aspect ratio during encoding to the final format.

[Jamestq]

This is super embarrassing... I was using crop in vlc by pressing C instead of changing the aspect ratio here is the new image, do you think that looks identical? lossless is on the left.

I'm using an All in wonder 9000 card.

DV capture is definitely brighter in the shadows

Thanks for replying sorry to waste your time.

[latreche34]

Looks about right, The levels on the lossless can be adjusted in the card's proc amp, It is difintly too dark.