Dropping audio on capture

[joe1541]

I have two sony vx DV camcorders. When I capture video into my computer using DV 1394 the play back sounds as if the audio is dropping out. I used another computer and the same thing happened. When I play the footage straight to a TV using AV cables it sounds great. I did a test using both my camcorders for capture. I had one play that and ran AV cables to the other the had it run DV to the computer. I captured and the audio sounds great but I lost the clarity of the DV video. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

[thecoalman]

What program are you using to capture and what format?

You should be capturing as DV-AVI, this is an exact copy of what is on the tape.

[joe1541]

I used Stuido 10 plus and Adobe 6.5. I captured in DV avi and Mpeg. The same results of dropping audio. If it was my camera or my tapes would it still be there during regular av play back?

[thecoalman]

What I would suggest is first using winDV to make a short capture, the only option is to capture as DV-AVI so it's impossible to make a mistake. If the problem still exists drop it into Movie Maker and create a WMV using the lowest preset they have. This will help determine if it's actually the capture or simply a playback problem. Considering you experinece this on two seperate machines I'm guessing this isn't going to help but it's worth a shot.

If it still exists in the WMV file get a new firewire cable.. still exists? Try it on a different computer with your new firewire cable.

If all that fails then it most likely is the cam or the tapes, if you could borrow another cam try that.

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Problems like these are tough to diagnose because it can be a variety of things.

[edDV]

You say you are using the using DV 1394 to capture. Do you mean you are using analog cables?

DV should be digitally captured over IEEE-1394. This gets you an exact digital copy to the hard drive and avoids analog conversion. WinDV as said is a staight forward DV capture tool to get your file on the hard drive. The DV-AVI file can then be imported into any edit program.

[joe1541]

When I use IEEE 1394 firewire I have the drop audio. It drops in just play back too with-out capture. I also notice that it is in the same place as if it was recorded that way. If I use analog cables their are no drops. So what I did was hooked up both cameras together with analog cables then output with IEEE 1394 cable to the computer. This took care of the problem. I have no audio drops. After running all the above test I have figured out that the problem is in one of my cameras. I have not yet figured out what the problem is. Is it the camera mic, the heads, or some other problem.