New sony dv camcorder, can't get it to capture properly...

[Rob]

I have a DELL older Pentium 4 2.40GHZ with 512 RAM, one 80 gib hard
drive and 1 300 gig hard drive that is mostly empty...

I capture via Firewire, am using DMA, and have turned off all unneeded
programs... The video I capture using any program I can find seem to
drop a great deal of frames and the video is choppy and the audio
sounds like something out of a horror movie... Even doing the
recommended capture in Windows Movie Maker skips a tad as well... I
actually want to capture DV-AVI, but don't see any possible way...
Please help

 

[Wojo]

Optimizing your system for video capture will probably solve the problem.
For more information see this page:
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm