capturing issue from a DV camera

[Guest]

Hi all,
I have a panasonic DV camcoder. Its USB2.0 compatible. WHen I try to
capture the video on the DV tape to my computer using WMM, there are numerous
issues..
1. the captured video plays much faster than the actual video, I mean it
loks as if its being played in the fast forward mode.
2. certain parts of the video are missing.
3. the capturing is much slower than the pace of the DV tape in the camera..

My system configuration is as follows..
PIII 600Mhz
256 MB ram
hard disk 20GB(14GB free space)

I have defragmented my hard disk using perfectdisk..
I understand that my system configuration is quite low.. I would really
appreciate if anyone cud help me resolve this issue with the same
configuration.
Thanks in advance.. Any small advice wud be of great help..
rgrds
tryin2Bwizkid

 

[Guest]

thanks for the info.. But my camera's manual says that i can transfer the
movies using USB2.0.. and thats what I am doing.. do u mean to say that i
can't capture the video on my comp with the USB2.0?
kindly advice.

 

[Graham Hughes]

I should imagine it will also say to use the app they provide. It will no
doubt capture as a compressed file, possibly mpeg. None of this is
compatible with movie maker.
For best quality, ease of use etc etc, use firewire as Treeman suggests.

Graham

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

thanks for the info.. But my camera's manual says that i can transfer the
movies using USB2.0.. and thats what I am doing.. do u mean to say that i
can't capture the video on my comp with the USB2.0?
kindly advice.

 

[Guest]

thanks for the reply.. But when I use the application they provided, there is
immense framedrop and am unable to capture the movie eventually.. any
suggestions on this? Or is firewire the only way out? thanks in advance..

I should imagine it will also say to use the app they provide. It will no
doubt capture as a compressed file, possibly mpeg. None of this is
compatible with movie maker.
For best quality, ease of use etc etc, use firewire as Treeman suggests.

Graham

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

thanks for the info.. But my camera's manual says that i can transfer the
movies using USB2.0.. and thats what I am doing.. do u mean to say that i
can't capture the video on my comp with the USB2.0?
kindly advice.

 

[Graham Hughes]

I'd go with firewire, but also check this out for optimising the pc for
video capture as lots of things can affect it.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

thanks for the info.. after all this what i understand is that my PC is too
low on configuration to do all these process.. so shall upgrade my PC and
then get back if issues persist.. Thanks once again for all those who helped
me on this..

I'd go with firewire, but also check this out for optimising the pc for
video capture as lots of things can affect it.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

thanks for the reply.. But when I use the application they provided, there
is
immense framedrop and am unable to capture the movie eventually.. any
suggestions on this? Or is firewire the only way out? thanks in advance..