problems! Please help!

[Guest]

I am using a Sony Handycam for a drama video project. I have been putting my
clips in Movie Maker through USB to edit and it has been working great.
Suddenly my old footage and my new shots have terrible resolution (like,
unable to see whats happening because the pixels are so messed up) I'm really
stressing because this has to work asap. I haven't found anything wrong with
the camera, and there doesnt seem to be any problem with it, and I can't find
anything wrong with the program. Everything is working fine, it just isn't
working! Any suggestions or help? Please post.

 

[LVTravel]

USB imports into MM (or any other video editing software) will not give the
best resolution. If your camera is capable (look in the manual or on the
side of it for an iLink connection which is actually Sony's name for
Firewire) of a Firewire (IEEE1394) connection, you should either plug it
into the computer's Firewire connector or purchase a PCI Firewire adapter,
if a desktop or a PCMCIA to Firewire adapter, if a laptop, for your computer
and plug it in. The capture will be much better.

If you only have the USB availability you probably out of luck trying to get
any better resolution. Some setting changes may be made to improve the
capture quality but as I stated earlier, the resolution just won't get to
"DVD" quality.

 

[Guest]

I have been using a Sony Hi8 format camera and connect to my pc via USB 2.0.
When previewing the movie in the preview windo it looks fine. When I view it
at full screen it doesn't look as good but that has more to do with the
resolution setting of your pc's monitor and the resolution you captured your
video in.

 

[Guest]

Are you saying;

A) you captured some video from your Sony and the clips played perfectly
then all of a sudden they don't.

or,

B) you captured some video from your Sony and when you viewed the clips
later for the 1st time, they are all messed up?

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