Video Capture problems

[leszczynski]

I am trying to capture video from a Sony TRv-38. I have a Dell 2.4Ghz PC with 512 MB 120MB dedicated hard drive (7200rpm)and am running XP. When I try to capture the video is not smooth, it is slightly jumpy. I have tried Ulead moviemaker2 and Dell Moviemaker. I am using a firewire port and have disconnected Lan and closed all TSR's and Dma is active on drive. Is it dropped frames or not the right settings for capture. What is the best software to use to gain the most control over settings. Ulead software does not have many setting controls or shows dropped frames. Any help??

[muno]

It should not drop frames when transferring from (I'm assuming sony trv-38 is a digital camera) digital appliance like that.

I don't know how that particular camera works, or how usually data is transferred from the camera to the computer, but I'm pretty confident it's some setting that is messed up

Someone I know used ulead and fw to transfer movies from a camera to hd, it worked fine.

[phenious]

what are your capture settings in Ulead MovieMaker? If its set with compression droped frames tend to happen... If you have the room to spare capture in DV format... warning... it takes up about 11Gigs per hour so be carefull. I Normally capture in Mpeg2 and do OK

-: phenious :-

[Xtreeme]

The dropped frames arent usually from the DV side (firewire) as its way more than enuff bandwidth. Like he said-Id look at the capture settings. Lower the format. Like mpeg2. Divx and such take more cpu power. On the other hand my rig with 2500+ Asusu A7n8x deluxe/ radeon 9800 NP NON-Se and 512mb captures with no loss into Divx or any other format from my Sony handycam trv-320 on firewire..my tv tuner aswell. Do you still have all the DELL programs loading at boot. They suck the life outta even the fastest rigs with those addware infested free programs they give you. My buddies 2400+ was DRAGGING its kness (Wall-mart pc). I removed all unnesceary proggys, run adaware -FRESH from wally world it had over 50 add programs. LOL. They gave him just enuff mem too boot OS (XP) 128mb and the thing was soo slow it couldnt even dw jpegs on net-they would TIME_OUT.. NEW system even. ROFLMAO. Added 256mb to it-cleaned her up. Its right fast now. He was sure I upgraded it more than just mem. But after showing him what I did he was baffled they do that. Cheap pc is cheap these days cause they put adware on your new pc and dont give ya enuff memory. $ payoff. How low can you go. Also make sure you shutoff other programs before capture like Virus scanner-firewall and such.

[phenious]

To capture in DVD or Mpeg2 format the rule of thum for on the fly encoding is 1.8Ghz. My AMD 1800+ with 512MB RAM and RAID 0 Hard drives can do it if I leave it alone... If I start messing around with my other video stuff or listen to music while surfing the net it will have to stop the video and encode its buffer before it can continue. My 2.4Ghz P4 Lappy however can stand encoding to Mpeg2 while listening to music and surfing the web... DivX and higher compressed video formats will take more CPU like Xtreeme said. Can you see what you are capturing in?

-: phenious :-