Sport footage

[bpafc]

Hi peeps. I'm brand new to 1. DV Filming 2. This board [img]smile.gif[/img]
I am currently looking to create a documentary following the exploits of the team I currently play for. The main gripe I have at the momnet is the quality of footage that is being captured with Premiere at the moment it is nowhere near the same as that played back on my TV b4 it is transfered to PC I admit I purchase a cheap firewire card for the PC and am wondering if it is this reason. Also the footage I currently have was shot by hand not by tripod and I understand that that will contibute to a bad quality shot. My thoughts are tho that it is likely to be that card does any one have any ideas what else it might be?? Any settings for Premiere I can try? Any decent relatively cheap (?100) firewire cards??
Any help gratefully recieved

[belovedmonster]

firewire is digital, the signal gets there or it doesnt, theres no difference in quality as long as the card works.

Theres alsorts of reasons why footage doesnt look as good on a PC as on a TV, too technical for me to get into, it could be just as simple as the editing software you use shows the footage low res to speed things up. But what does matter is that once you have edited it and output it back onto TV it looks fine... you should test this.

As for a tripod... yes this will improve the look of the film alot. Handheld shots have thier place, but when you want professional shots nothing beats a tripod.