Capturing DV @ 25mb/s

[reilly]

Quick question. I'm capturing my digital video from my video camera (Sony DV) via Firewire to my pc. I'm capturing at 25mb/s with a bunch of tools, like MS Movie Maker, Ulead Visual Studio 5, etc. In every case, the video and sound is slow and full of audio artifacts.. I haven't figured out how to fix it. Does the firewire copy make a perfect one and the only problem is the digital format that it's in? Or is it a bad copy? HELP PLEASE

System
Camera: Sony DV TRV18
Via Firewire
1.6 ghz PC
Copy @ 720x480 @ 25 mb/s

[mpb]

Quick question. I'm capturing my digital video from my video camera (Sony DV) via Firewire to my pc. I'm capturing at 25mb/s with a bunch of tools, like MS Movie Maker, Ulead Visual Studio 5, etc. In every case, the video and sound is slow and full of audio artifacts.. I haven't figured out how to fix it. Does the firewire copy make a perfect one and the only problem is the digital format that it's in? Or is it a bad copy? HELP PLEASE

System
Camera: Sony DV TRV18
Via Firewire
1.6 ghz PC
Copy @ 720x480 @ 25 mb/s

Something is wrong - your resulting AVI should be close to flawless. I would suggest downloading DVIO from this website and trying it out - see the Tools bar to the left - and if you still get corrupt captures, it's something in hardware. Wish I could be of more help...

[reilly]

That's what I thought. I tried DVIO, but it started dropping frames after 400 captured. After 500 frames it would be about 10 dropped. When I looked at the video it was the same quality. Sound had echoe's in the background, video was slow and choppy. The only thing is that the slowness and choppiness is consistant across the entire video, no matter how I capture it, no matter what I use or the size of the capture.

[kitty]

You should consider trying to remove some programs from memory before capture. I think there is a guide eon that here but you may be using too many cpu cycles on your other programs (e-mail, anti-virus, siti@home, etc. etc.).

[reilly]

Thanks for everyone's help. I, accidently, figured out what the problem is. My second HD isn't in UDMA mode. For some reason it's in PMIO. Of course, as a result it will not write fast enough. I'm sending the HD back to the vendor. I'm using my primary HD in the short term and everything is perfect

Thanks again.