How to capture film from DV camcorder to AVI?

[revy8]

Hi,
I have a sony trv-250 digital camcorder and I have a firewire card in my computer. I tried to capture the film using the DV link into avi format. The quality was good, but the sound was terrible, it is fragmented and I can't understand anything.
What shall I do??
Thanks.

[Baldrick]

read
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=634&howtoselect=9;53#634

and then try another dv copy tool
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=33#33

[Nosey249]

I have the same camera and the same thing happens during playback on the computer, the sound, and sometimes the video is jumpy.. but, once I create a dvd it's fine..

I was using dvio to copy the video file over, it would save the video as an avi at around 20gig per hour, give or take..

I have been playing with unleaded dvd maker, it will pull the video and encode into mpeg, slightly smaller file, at best setting its about 4gig per hour..

hope this helps

[revy8]

Hi,
I tried one of the guides in the link you sent me, but when trying to capture the film with WinDV or DVIO I had many dropped frames and the problem remains. (It remains even after I tried to convert it to SVCD).
What shall I do with the dropped frames??

[Nosey249]

in windv I was getting alot of dropped frames, in divo I wasn't getting any, make sure you aren't running anything else major in the background..

I can browse the web and a few other things, but don't do anything cpu intensive

[XL3/\/7]

I use Adobe's Premiere pro v7 to capture from my DV palmcorder. I then make an mpeg-2 video out of it using CCE and the RobShot method, author with DVD-Lab and burn. I don't know if that helps, but it works for me.

[revy8]

Where can I find Adobe Premiere software?

[DVD_Ripper]

The Adobe Premier software will cost you an arm and two legs. Stay with the more conventional / off-the-shelf products... it will stay within your budget and you will get similar quality.

You may also want to try capturing the AVI stream from your DV right to MPEG.. it may same disk space and time. And the editors today do a good job working with MPEG's.

Look at some MainConcept products (DV to MPEG) along with Pinnacle and Ulead (Editing / DVD Burn) . They make some very user friendly software.

[bugster]

For 'capturing' DV, at no cost, why not try Windows Movie Maker.