Problems recording DV video to camera from Adobe Premiere

[grimmeissen]

First off, whenever my Sony DCR-TRV250 is connected via firewire to my PC at all, the timeline playback in Adobe Premiere basically will not work. It is choppy and sometimes completely hangs up. Is there something that screws with the computer when a DV camcorder is hooked up? If I unplugged it, I could play the video in the timeline fine.

When I go to export video in Premiere, the export to tape function can't even be selected, but if I just play the video in the monitor it will sort of show on the screen. It just plays choppy and horrible just like it does on the computer screen. I know that the camera is excepting the video from the computer, but there's no way I can record it since it is choppy. Half the time the camcorder just shows blue because the video is so bad on the screen.

What could be the problem that is causing my video to playback so horribly when the camera is plugged in. Unplugging the camera is fine for editing, but I want to send the edited video back to a DV tape. This is impossible under the current situation.

If anyone has experienced stuff like this and has a solution, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank,

-Dustin Grimmeissen-

[edDV]

Mine does nothing like that. I use both Digital8 and MiniDV.
Is the source DV format?
Is Premiere set to DV format as a project setting?

We need more detail on your machine, your capture methods (IEEE-1394?) and your version of Premiere.

[Soopafresh]

Could be your firewire card or driver. If you installed SP2, there is a patch on Microsoft's site for slow running 1394.