Audio Noise while capturing Video

[avaishnavi]

I have a Sony DCR PC 101E Digital Camcorder, which I purchased recently. I have a IEEE1394 FireWire Card, and Dazzle Fusion AV Box. When I try to capture the Video in (AVI format) the Application Software, I face problem that the audio is not captured properly. There is too much noise in the audio.

What could be wrong? I have tried many softwares like MGI , Pixela, MovieStar. I still have same problem. THe problem remains the same whether i use FireWire Card or Dazzle Fusion Box.

However I tried capturing the Video as MPEG using PIXELA, then there is no problem..............however the size of MPEG file created is huge about 40MB / min.

So, what can solve my problem of capturing AVI & what can reduce my MPEG file size capture?

Appreciate help provided.

Br

ajay

PS: As i am a newbie, Can someone tell me if i need to capture in AVI format or MPEG format so as to create a VCD.

[sdmoore]

Not sure what to suggest really, but 40MB/min is not huge at all ... uncompressed full size video is about 25MB/sec! As you've got a firewire card I would capture your footage as DV first (this will be an avi - size will be 3.6MB/sec of video). Then I would convert to mpg for VCD using TMPGenc to get the best quality. I suspect you may be trying to do on-the-fly software compression which may be the cause of your audio problems - maybe your system is struggling to do this in realtime? If your worried about disk space ... large hard disks are not expensive nowadays.

HTH,

Scott

[chewyshaun@hotmail.com]

Hi
I too have recently bought a Sony Digital Camcorder, when I capture with Windows Media Player or Ulead Video Studio I also get a lot of audio noise, when I use Sony's Pixela it captures just fine, I know its not an answer but you are not alone and I also would like to know how to solve this?

[avaishnavi]

NO, i am not doing On-the-fly compression.
I am trying to capture DV AVI, but the audio captured is distorted and contains noise.

What can be reasons for that?

[tromanthony]

i maybe off here, but i had some noise (not too audible) on a tape right before the segment i was capturing and when i captured my video, i could hear that noise which actually sounded more audible in dv format.

[avaishnavi]

NO, I am talking about the acutual voice not getting captured correctly. THe actual voice gets distorted and very noisy when i capture AVI from my camcorder.

Do i need to make any settings changes to get rid of this problem?

[ScottS]

I have the exact same problem when capturing directly from my digital camcorder. The audio sampling seems to be off if capturing to AVI in either VideoStudio or ShowBiz (free with hardware). MPEG works fine. Is there any loss in using the MPEG, or danger in adjusting the default AVI sampling rate?