camcorder problem

theultimate · 4 Jul 2006 at 10:52

hi i have a jvc c amcorder that takes the mini dv cassettes

i use firewire to take the videos off the camera and using sony video capture to take them off, thing is it keeps having dropped frames every 5 minutes and its really doing my head in because i cant work out why its doing it..

any ideas?

rickyt · 4 Jul 2006 at 20:20

Theres lots of things to take into consideration when capturing footage from camcorder .What's the processing speed of your PC ?? .How much RAM has it got ?? Have you De-fragged your PC recently ?? Are you running a Anti-virus program ??.All of these things can affect the outcome .I have two standalone PC's for video editing with no internet connection ,no anti-virus or spyware programs running ,I capture from Sharp & Panasonic camcorders using Pinnacle 9 and have no dropped frames using Firewire .There may be something running on your PC interupting data flow causing your PC to lag .Come back with your PC specs.

fanger · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:39

theultimate said:
hi i have a jvc c amcorder that takes the mini dv cassettes

i use firewire to take the videos off the camera and using sony video capture to take them off, thing is it keeps having dropped frames every 5 minutes and its really doing my head in because i cant work out why its doing it..

any ideas?

What software are you using to capture?

theultimate · 5 Jul 2006 at 19:09

im using sony video capture, is ther anything else i culd try? also now its coming as a blank screen on the pc and showing the video on the cam!

fanger · 5 Jul 2006 at 19:37

theultimate said:
im using sony video capture, is ther anything else i culd try? also now its coming as a blank screen on the pc and showing the video on the cam!

I don't know what NLE program you use but there is nothing wrong with Moviemaker 2.0 to capture live vid from your cam as you're not after the editing/ transitions; you're simply streaming raw dv to you HDDs. Moviemaker doesn't compress dv so it's as good as AVID for capturing.

Moviemaker is an XP accessory. Make sure you download the latest version.
Give your students five minutes to show them how to hit "Start Capture" and "End Capture" and movie maker will stream the footage to HDD with a time and date stamp file name.