transfering from dv video camera to pc jerky playback and audio

[jezzer]

hi ive been looking at this forum to see if anyone else has the problem but i cant see anything,im using windows movie maker to capture but i have tried different ones and i still get the same result.

im transfering through firewire i capture dv-avi and the picture and audio is jerky,but if i capture best quality for playback on pc it comes out fine.

if im using the capture dv-avi which is all jerky i can convert it to another format using Tmpgenc and the conversion comes out fine even though when i had done the capture it was jerky

i have done a defrag but no change im just about to rip my hair out..

my camera is canon mvx30i and ive also used windv and sony vegas to capture but i stll get the same result

my pc is fast enough and my harddrive is good enough

please help me solve my problem

cheers

[edDV]

Single drive? If so shut down all other tasks including antivirus.

Better to transfer to a second drive.

[jezzer]

its a single hard drive but ive tried it with everything shutdown

[jimbucc]

If you can, get a separate drive for capture. You are dropping frames because the OS is interrupting your capture, probably writing to the swap file.
With a separate clean drive this won't happen.

[jezzer]

ill see what i can do but when i use sony vegas it tells you how many drop frames you have,when i capture it reads 0drop frames

when i capture best quality for playback on pc,it would be a loss in picture quality?

the only way to keep it good is to capture dv-avi then convert to dvd format? like i did when i was trying to find out what worked and what did not work

[jezzer]

im getting there i just did a defrag in safemode now the jerky video has stopped and all thats left is the jerky audio or you could call it crackling audio

but if its to do with the harddrive how come when i capture it in dv-avi then convert it to dvd it comes out fine?

[edDV]

im getting there i just did a defrag in safemode now the jerky video has stopped and all thats left is the jerky audio or you could call it crackling audio

but if its to do with the harddrive how come when i capture it in dv-avi then convert it to dvd it comes out fine?

In my experience, these problems are symptomatic of a drive that is near full and dealing with extreme fragmentation. Are you sure you have adequate disk space for a 13.5 GB/hr capture file?

I'd recommend debugging with WinDV. WinDV is essentially a control panel for DirectShow and offers some buffering. Movie Maker is an application that sits above DirectShow.

[jezzer]

i tried it on my laptop and it worked fine it surprized me as the latop is old and harddrive is sluggish, so i did a format on my pc and guess what its ok now cheers

[greymalkin]

if you are going to be doing this on a regular basis you may want to consider purchasing a second hard drive. Preferably a large one .

[jezzer]

ill look into that, i should of guessed it was my pc as the last month my pc has been playing up,but i never thought what was messing up would affect movie editing

[SingSing]

WinDV "communicates"(not capture) with your cam via firewire, and it should get all the frames. You want to look at your firewire card/connection/driver.

Did you watch the video on TV from the cam, is that okay ?

[jezzer]

just when i thought it worked,i did a transfer that was 15minutes long and i had the problem again,and and jnow it wont even do short clips,does this sound like the hard drive its only a year old like my pc

its not the film on my camcorder what ive been doing is downloading clips from the net putting it in windows movie maker then saving them on my pc as dv-avi