Problem with audio and video skipping

[rich47]

I'm having trouble capturing video from my Sony DCR TRV-22 to
Moviemaker on my Win XP Professional PC (3ghz and 1gb of RAM). I have
plenty of disk space available for the project.

I have no problem going through the capture process. Before starting
Moviemaker, I close other programs (though I'm sure I have some
running in the background that I'm not aware of). I select "Best
quality for playback on my computer" and "Capture entire tape
automatically" with "Show preview" unchecked and "'create scenes after
wizard finishes" (my goal is to transfer most of my tapes to the
PC).

I have tried doing this a few times. Upon completion, my problems
have been:
-- video seems to skip frames and is choppy
-- audio is out of sync with video

I realize this is free software, but I was hoping it would work better
than this. Could someone please help with some simple steps to remedy
the problem?

Thanks!

 

[Davy5]

I'm having trouble capturing video from my Sony DCR TRV-22 to
Moviemaker on my Win XP Professional PC (3ghz and 1gb of RAM). I have
plenty of disk space available for the project.

I have no problem going through the capture process. Before starting
Moviemaker, I close other programs (though I'm sure I have some
running in the background that I'm not aware of). I select "Best
quality for playback on my computer" and "Capture entire tape
automatically" with "Show preview" unchecked and "'create scenes after
wizard finishes" (my goal is to transfer most of my tapes to the
PC).

I have tried doing this a few times. Upon completion, my problems
have been:
-- video seems to skip frames and is choppy
-- audio is out of sync with video

I realize this is free software, but I was hoping it would work better
than this. Could someone please help with some simple steps to remedy
the problem?

Thanks!

 

[Davy5]

If you have 2 hard drives, save the captured video to the drive that does not
contain Moviemaker, keep them seperate, next set the video setting to
"DV-AVI", then capture parts of the video manually.

 

[rich47]

Thanks for the reply. I do have two hard drives and did save the
video file separate from the program file, but I still had the
probelm.

Also, I don't want to capture just parts of the video, I want to
capture the entire tape.

I'd appreciate any further advice you have.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Where does the video jump and adio go out of sync?
While you are watching in the preview winodw with the audio/video on the
timeline?
This often happens as MM shows only a low res preview.
or after making a finished movie, so being watched in say media player?

 

[rich47]

It's on both the preview and on the avi file. Both the video and audio
are choppy. It seems like some frames are just not included in the
file.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Graham Hughes]

If the captured file plays choppy in wmp then I suspect your pc isn't
capturing properly, check this out
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm