Poor Capture on moving objects

I know similar questons like this were asked before, with the results blamed on the camera, but here is my problem: I have a fixed position camera and need to capture a still image with a small moving object (about 10-15mph). When I do a capture, the moving object in the image is unclear (not blurry, more like odd and even fields aren't sync'd). I know it's not the camera, because I have a digital taped copy from that camera, and it's clean when I pause the tape. I'm using a 1411 board on a p4 system. I have included two images - the first image is from a live capture, the second is the digital tape paused and then captured (to show that the camera is not at fault). The moving object in the image is a dog jumping into the water at
about the 13 foot mark on the back of the dock.
Thank you,
-Dave
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Dave,
Actually, it is the camera. The odd and even fields are taken at different times, so they don't match up. To do this properly, you need to use a non-interlaced camera.
The reason the pause looks good is because the camera is cheating just a little bit. To eliminate the blur, it only uses the lines from the odd frame, and interpolates to create the even lines. I can duplicate the process on your live image using Corel PhotoPaint, and I get an image that looks just like your paused image. If you look closely at the paused image, you notice that some things look a little blockier and blurrier than the live image.
Bruce
Bruce Ammons
Ammons Engineering

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