juddering on captured files

[Guest]

When files which are perfect on the Panasonic camcorder are transferred to
movie maker, they judder and the sound is distorted. This isn't consistent -
when played over sometimes they will be OK and others parts will distort.
What could be causing this? When transferred back to the camcorder (DV) the
distortion is varied - ie not in the same place as it was on the movie maker
screen.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

those are symptoms of a fragmented file on a hard drive needing a tune-up...
assuming the tuned-up system is powerful enough to support playing it
smoothly.

 

[John Kelly]

Hello,

System performance is the usual easily fixed cause.....

You should defragment your hard drive with a program called Perfect Disc
from Raxco.com...its the only program endorced by Microsoft even though the
MVP rubbished it some time back (He did not know how to use it) Perfect Disk
is the only program I know of that has the ability to defrag the free space
between files....you can download a 30 day evalutation which is not crippled

Next, Disconnect from the internet, disable Anti-Virus and firwall
programs as well as memory managers and any other "gimik" software you may
have running....in my book Gimik Software are those little programs that do
something clever and have no bearing on the use of the computer....and
finally disable your screen saver

After that, the next thing to look at is your Motherboard Speed (often
refered to as FSB) your CPU speed and how much and how fast is your memory.
The microsoft site gives some guidlines on the minimum spec and you can runn
video with a lower spec provided its not too much lower.

If you need further help give information on your computers speed etc.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org

Never loved Instant Experts or Liars

 

[Guest]

Many thanks - your advice was followed and what a difference - complete
success.Thanks again

 

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a Hitachi VM-D865LA Digital Camcorder and A Dell Dimension 8400 Media
Center computer. I have my camcorder hooked up to my computer with an IEEE
1394 cable. I have the same problem that ddesigns has. Windows has its own
version of disk defragmentor. Is Perfect Disk better than that and would it
be worth downloading or are they the same? I already defragmented my
computer using the version on my computer and am still having the problem?

Thanks kal

 

[Graham Hughes]

Perfect disc is better. I think you need to buy it, not sure if they do a
demo. Check this out as well for more help on getting the best from
capturing.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm

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

 

[Guest]

I have tried defragging with perfect disk and then tried to capture my video
but I am still experiencing the same problem. You mention disconnecting
internet and antivirus and others. How do I do this? What do I look for to
do this?

I have a Hitachi VM-D865LA Digital Camcorder (bought at least 5 years ago)
and A Dell Dimension 8400 Media Center computer. I have my camcorder hooked
up to my computer with an IEEE 1394 cable. I have the same problem that
ddesigns has. Windows has its own version of disk defragmentor. Is Perfect
Disk better than that and would it be worth downloading or are they the same?
I already defragmented my computer using the version on my computer and am
still having the problem?

Thanks kal

 

[Graham Hughes]

Normally things like firewall and antivirus start automatically when the
computer is turned on. SO first thing to do is disconnect from teh internet.
Then open up the firewall programme and turn it off, maybe right click the
icon in the systray and choose something like shutdown firewall. Do the same
for the anti-virus programme.

All programmes can try to access some resources when they are on, and what
you need to do is make sure they don't do this while you are trying to
capture.

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

 

[Guest]

I use a Canon S2IS digi camera in movie mode. It records DV at 30 fps. It
outputs this in AVI format which plays fine, without any hint of judder, on
any software I like, on my Windows XP PC (2.7 Ghz, 512 RAM etc).
However when I drag the AVI file into an editing program like MS Movie
Maker, or Cyberlink Power Director, the file plays with severe judder, as if
the camera was being jerked during recording. This is before I do any
editing, or conversion to MPEG or anything - just playing it from the
Timeline.
I guess the problem is something to do with change of frame rate to 24 fps,
although with Power Director it still jerks even if I've set the Preferences
to 30 fps.
Any ideas on how I might fix this? Or what's happening?