Jerky video when caputured video with Studio DV Moviebox

[unhappy]

I have tried for months to capture video from an old Sony Video 8 camcorder using Studio 9 with all updates done. There is no fault with the video tape, it plays back perfectly through TV. I am using Studio DV Moviebox with firewire and can capture in MPEG 2 with no dropped frames. My computer is well on top of the job with 3.0ghz P4 Prescott, 2gb Corsair ram, 120gb HDD for OS and 500GB raid array for captured video, Graphics card is Radeon 9800 pro and sound card Creative Audigy 2 zs Platignum. I like the Studio program as it will do all I want, which is simply to make DVD of old footage of my wife and I before she died. Pinnacle support have helped but cannot resolve this jerkiness in the captured footage. I have captured with preview window closed, with and without hardware acceleration, lowered capture rate to absolute minimum, closed down all other running programs with Enditall and have no more ideas. I can liken captured video to stilted movement, ie someone walking and parts of the movement are missing. I have easily made a DVD of it and that plays back in exactly the same jerky fashion. I am 67 and suffer Chronic Pain Syndrome but can fathom out most things with computer programs, except this one. It has me beat and my time is short
I will donate £25 or $50 to this site or any other specified site, if anyone can help me sort this problem, as I have no other help and am housebound through illness and rely on my computer totally.
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[thecoalman]

That setup should give you no trouble, except for the capture device which I have no experience with so I can't comment.

Anyhow what's you capture settings? If the option is available try capturing in AVI.

[unhappy]

That setup should give you no trouble, except for the capture device which I have no experience with so I can't comment.

Anyhow what's you capture settings? If the option is available try capturing in AVI.

Thank you. I have already had the programme convert the video to AVI but not tried to capture as AVI. I will give it a try.

[gilberto]

unhappy,
If you are using Studio DV Moviebox, capture to DV AVI. Then, use the software to convert the DV AVI to DVD MPEG. Should be flawless.

best regards.

[thecoalman]

Thank you. I have already had the programme convert the video to AVI but not tried to capture as AVI. I will give it a try.

Ahhh you converted back to AVI...... You can capture in DVD compliant mpeg2 and use that file to author to disc, make sure you use a authoring app that doesn't reencode the file and you should be fine.

If you capture to AVI it needs to be converted to MPEG to be viewable on a standalone DVD player, if you plan on doing editing this would be the preferred method. When you encode or convert to mpeg you may come across the settings for upper field, lower field or frame based (they can also be labled A,B or Frame) Use lower field, that should be the correct choice.

[unhappy]

Dear Friends,
I have captured in MPEG2, which is best I can do for analogue with Studio 9. The programme decides what you can use according to the source plugged into the DV Moviebox and display the correct choice according to wether it senses a digital or analogue source. The capture in MPEG 2 was always jerky and when I made the odd DVD to see whether it showed the same fault, the programme decided it wanted to convert the MPEG into an AVI file before making the DVD.
I had a suggestion from a friend I met online, that after capture I should use another programme, other than Studio, or not use Studio 9 at all but perhaps one of the Ulead programs. I just wonder whether the Studio capture or converter box will work Ok with another programme. I have never tried with anything but Studio 9. I am not adverse to buying another program but am a bit short on knowledge as to which might be best.
Afraid I have got nothing done at all today, even after 240mg morphine and only two hours sleep last night.
I really do appreciate your help and will have another go, but often my arms will not take strain of using keyboard. If I am up at 5.0am again I will to do nothing else but try your advices.
Sincere thanks to TheCoalman and Gilberto. Jeff.

[thecoalman]

Dear Friends,
I have captured in MPEG2, which is best I can do for analogue with Studio 9. The programme decides what you can use according to the source plugged into the DV Moviebox and display the correct choice according to wether it senses a digital or analogue source. The capture in MPEG 2 was always jerky and when I made the odd DVD to see whether it showed the same fault, the programme decided it wanted to convert the MPEG into an AVI file before making the DVD. .

According to the specs it should capture to AVI.... actually that's all it says it does. I think your missing a setting or something to change it to AVI. I'm not familaiar with Studio 8 or the converter so I really can't tell you what exactly to do. I think your a little confused though decause AVI has to be converted to mpeg for DVD playback not the other way around.