Poor DV capture quality

Let me first state that I am a DV noob I am using premiere 6 to capture DV from my Camcorder. The captured results a far poorer than those achieved by simply playing tapes from the camcorder AV-out on my TV. The images look grainy and when there is fast motion on the screen the moving objects get what I would describe as interlace artifacts (half the horizontal scan lines from the previous fram mixed with the next). I'm using the Movie Capture feature of Prem6. Is there something really obviously wrong with what I am doing? The capture settings appear to match those of the source too (with 12bit audio) My System: AMD XP1800 512Mb RAM Geforce4 T14400 128MB 13 + 40gb 7200rpm Generic Brand Firewire Card yada yada Cam is a Panasonic NV-MX7 MiniDV Any suggestions would be appreciated This forum has helped me immensely with DVD2SVCD...thanks guys :D:

The playback of DV files on the monitor doesn't look very good, also you should make sure that the playback driver for DV is set to full resolution playback (the MS Direct Show DV driver is set to only half resolution per default, which looks really bad). Record back the file to camcorder via FireWire and then watch it on tv again. You will see it's the same as before :)

Thanks for your help. I checked out the cameras menus and the Panasonic NV-MX7 has an option for progressive...it was set to auto. I havent tried it yet but I am sure this will improve things. :D