Black borders appears in DV video

[Fanda@CZ]

Hi,
I made few DVDs of MiniDV camera captured by Exsate DV Capture Live (http://www.exsate.com/products/dvcapture/), made in Adobe Premiere Elements 7. But after few projects, something happens and now all grabbed source videos (avi with dvsd codec) are played with black borders on 3 borders (see picture). I try to change codecs priority and play them with another one (on 3 players), but the result is the same. Source videos (avis) are still the same (file dates are unchanged) and I have no other ideas where to watch now. Do you have any idea? I did take some captured files on other PC, wrong also, but a did not test this before...

I have Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9c

Thank you for advice, Fanda

This is info from captured file:

General
Complete name : C:\video.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
File size : 4.22 MiB
Duration : 1s 160ms
Overall bit rate : 30.5 Mbps
Recorded date : 2007-08-13 07:50:37

Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 1s 160ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Stream size : 3.98 MiB (94%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 1s 160ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 024 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 145 KiB (3%)
Interleave, duration : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)

[minidv2dvd]

try capturing with the free winDV program. it's all you need. if there's still a problem it may be the camera is failing.

[Fanda@CZ]

Thank you. But I was using this software combination before and works well. I have not the camera by me now...

[edDV]

Looks like a horizontal shift to the right exposing blanking on the left side. I'd also recommend you capture with WinDV.

[Fanda@CZ]

I was testing capturing with WinDV (and Premiere Elements also), but with the same result. Even in capturing realtime thumbnail are borders black.
Previous projects/videos was made from files I did capture month ago, together with all others (and everything was working perfect). In one day, after 8 hours, Premiere for some time slow down and from this time all players and editors shows borders. It looks like the problem is in directshow or something like that. Sony DV codec shows videos still in the same way...

[minidv2dvd]

does the tape play alright in the camera's display, or shifted? either way i'd still try a different cam, most likely your is going bad.

[Fanda@CZ]

Cam shows video well.

[NoBuddy]

Try opening the video in VirtualDub and look if there are borders in your avi.
You can also re-register windows quartz.dll, just in case something went weird. (regsvr32 quartz.dll)
And also Windows dv-codec (qdv.dll)

[minidv2dvd]

it's not likely a codec problem, but you can re-install codecs. right click on the original file you downloaded and install. or if you need to get them try the "free codecs" link in the left column.

[Fanda@CZ]

Nothing of recommended makes any changes. VirtualDub shows borders also. Another codec too. Re-registration was successful, but no change...