Ticks and Pops in Audio

[punkyb]

I bought a JVC cam corder about 2 years ago now. It has always filmed stuff just fine. However, on my old computer, which had XP on it, sometimes when I'd transfer video via firewire to the computer and edit it and burn it to DVD I'd noticed little ticks occasionally in the audio. It wasn't often and was barely noticeable so I never thought much about it. I now have a new computer that has Vista. I use to use a combination of Adobe Premiere and Windows Movie Maker so I continued to the same with my new computer. My old computer had 4 pin to 6 pin and this new has 4 pin to 4pin so I got a new firewire cable to use with this new computer. I recently got married and we got the raw footage on 5 mini dvs from our videographer to save money. I want to edit them myself. First we watched all tapes on our TV by hooking up our cam corder to the TV and they all played fine except a small section of one tape which had a lot of jumps, pops, or ticks in the audio. They were more noticeable than anything I've heard before and way more frequent. I figured it was an old tape since a bit of the end of it had a part of a wedding from a few years back.

I have transferred all videos to the computer and started to edit them tonight in adobie. The previews as I went seemed fine until I started on the second tape. Then it started to get an almost static sound instead of just ticks. And it was every few seconds. Very horrible. So I decided to view the original unedited file in Windows Media Player and it plays pretty good. You can tell those little ticks are there however to most it won't be noticeable. My husband can't tell they are there. So I decided to try editing a small portion in Movie Maker and saving it to see how it turns out and it is the same as the original file.

So first off I'd like to know what can cause these little ticks in MiniDvs? And why are those small minor ticks turning into loud static when I put it to edit in Premier? Is there anything I can do to get rid of it in Adobie? Or am I going to have to start all over and edit it in Movie Maker where it's less noticeable?

[minidv2dvd]

try capturing to the computer with the free program winDV. watch for any lost frames. that would most likely be the source ot noise in the video. if that's the case i would recommend buying a head cleaning tape for the cam and using it. then try capturing again. if you have had multiple brands of tape in the cam the different tape lubes can cause buildup on the heads.

[zoobie]

I noticed the same...turned out to be my sound card