Bad DV Output

[Jeff Geiger]

I just recently started using Win Movie Maker 2. I
Imported a wedding I filmed with my Canon XL1 DV
camcorder. I made a short ( 6 minute)video montage with
about 40-50 transitions and music overlay. When I output
the movie back to DV, every time a transition starts,
there is a hiccup in the video and the audio with an
occasional digital artifact. The system I'm using specs
as follows:
P4 1.7 GHz, 256 MB RDRAM, 80GB SATA 150 HDD w/ 8MB cache
strictly for video files, PCI SATA controller, 10GB
ATA133 drive for the OS and programs, Nvidia GF4 128MB
DDR video card, Texas Instruments PCI Firewire card

Theoretically this set up should perform well for DV
editing, but the output looks as if the system is choking
when it renders transitions. Any tips or pointers?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Jeff,

A good defrag before exporting might resolve it. It's usually because your
hard drive isn't keeping up with the flow.

Or maybe save it to a DV-AVI first and see how that plays back on the
computer. Then export it to the camcorder using the DVIO utility (top of
Camcorders... General page at www.papajohn.org


PapaJohn

 

[Jeff Geiger]

Thank you for the suggestion. I think I nailed down the
problem. Both the 1394 card and the SATA controller are
on the PCI bus. So to transfer from the SATA drive, the
video must go from the drive up the bus to the processor,
back down the bus and out the 1394. Thus using huge
amounts of bandwidth on the PCI Bus. I saved the video
as DV to a drive on the IDE bus. Then transferred out to
the camera. No glitches. Hope this is helpful to any
one else having problems.