Problem Capturing Video from Sony DCR-HC20

[wshackne]

I am having problems capturing video from my Sony DCR-HC20. I have tried using Windows Movie Maker and WinDV, both have the same result. When I capture the video in DV-AVI it is really choppy when I play it back on the computer. It seems to stop and then go at double speed to catch up. Also, both programs stopped after captuing just 3 minutes or so of video. I wouldn't say it was a hard freeze, but the programs both just set their doing nothing.

I have a Asus P4P800 with 1 Gb of Ram and a 2.4 800Mhz FSB processor. My main drive is a Raid 1 array (for security, not speed), but I am capturing to a swap drive I have set up (120 GB wester Digital with 8 Mb cache) on a completely seperate IDE channel. Plenty of Room on the drive. I am connecting to the camera with a Firewire cable connected to the port on my motherboard.

After a useless call to Sony, and reading some posts on this and other boards, I am beginning to beleive that the port on the MB is just not fast enough. I just ordered a new firewire card from NewEgg to see if it solves the porblem.

Do you guys think this is the problem? is their anything else this could be. I appreciate any help on this one. I am stumped. Thanks all!

Spence

[ronbruce]

I have a very similar setup to yours,
P4P800 deluxe with a P4 2.4C a gig of Corsair twin 3200LL
XP on a 36gb Raptor and everything else on 2 x 120gb WD 8mbs
a GF ti4200 and a Sony 510 dvd burner.

Yesterday I transferred a one gig .avi from my laptop to the Asus machine via Firewire, it only took about 3 minutes, so the advertised speed of the firewire of 400mb/sec must be about right.

I could not guess why it doesn't work for you , The P4P800 firewire port seems ok to me.

I can't get an AVI movie to dubb back to my Canon MVX150i fro the laptop.

ronbruce