Newb DV Question

[Randm_Task]

Just hooked up my new Canon MV500i Camcorder to the computer. Ive tried capturing to AVI using Premiere 6.0 and Vegas 4.0 but both display a very jittery picture when played back. Audio seems fine.

When captured to mpg using Arcsoft Showbiz I dont get the stuttering picture.

When captured to AVI with Windows Movie Maker, it doesnt stutter but lines are through moving objects. WMV is fine but low quality.

Any ideas ?

[HAGGARD]

Hi,

I guess that the "jittering" as you call it is in fact the interlacing in the video...
Standard television uses this to be able to display 50/60 frames (PAL 2x25fields/NTSC2x30) per second. This is called interlacing.
A computer screen does not use interlacing but is progressive.
So if you display a interlaced video on a progressive computer screen your see these interlace lines.
These lines dissapear when video is either burnt on SVCD or DVD and played on a television.

'HAG

[Randm_Task]

I should have explained better. The AVI from Windows Movie Maker looks like its interlaced.

The AVI from Vegas/Premiere are stuttering almost like theres a shitload of dropped frames (although there isnt)

[yg1968]

Some programs are better at playing interlaced videos than others. For example, PowerDVD does a good job of de-interlacing upon playback. Try playing the DV avi file in PowerDVD and if it doesn't play well, you might have a problem but otherwise, I would not worry about it.

[donpedro]

Ive tried capturing to AVI using Premiere 6.0 and Vegas 4.0 but both display a very jittery picture when played back.

Maybe your PC is slow to handle Adobe Premiere and playing video in the same time. Try to play AVI file with Windows Madia Player or PowerDVD.

[Randm_Task]

Some programs are better at playing interlaced videos than others. For example, PowerDVD does a good job of de-interlacing upon playback. Try playing the DV avi file in PowerDVD and if it doesn't play well, you might have a problem but otherwise, I would not worry about it.

Im not too worried about the interlaced picture as its only WMM that does it. Already tried PowerDVD to play back the AVI with the same result

[Randm_Task]

Maybe your PC is slow to handle Adobe Premiere and playing video in the same time. Try to play AVI file with Windows Madia Player or PowerDVD.

Im not playing back in Premiere or Vegas. Im playing back in Windows Media Player and PowerDVD.

And my PC is a 2ghz Athlon so it should be plenty fast

[yg1968]

Perhaps, it's the firewire cable. Defective firewire cable will cause strange results.

[Randm_Task]

I dont think its the DV cable

Ive also found that if I use the jumpy DV AVI from Vegas then save it as DVD compliant MPEG2 then playback is a *lot* smoother (although now looks interlaced)

So maybe its a problem with the playback codec that WMP and PowerDVD uses ?

The resultant mpeg2 while looking interlaced on WMP looks ok on my TV (Via TV-out)

Is there anyway to get proper playback ?

PS: Ive included a couple of screenshots played back in PowerDVD. The First is the AVI, the second is the MPG2. There is a huge difference in colour between the two that you can see (colourwise, the AVI looks much better on playback, the MPG2 is too saturated)