Recording quality issue

[Guest]

Whenever I start to record video from DV source the quality of the picture
and sounds deteriorates, starts cutting and jumping kind of slowing down.
However, if I do only a playback from the source the quality of both audio
and video is fine. Why the change when I want to do recording?

I'll appreciate any help as I really want to burn this movie of my children.

Thanks,
C

 

[Graham Hughes]

A little more info would help.

Is it after capturing and whilst viewing in MM?
This is possibly due to MM only showing a preview which is low quality.

Ater capture, if you play it in Windows Media Player, does it play slowly
etc?
If yes, then you have a capture problem, see here
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm
If, it's probably just the way MM shows it, so edit the movie and save as a
dv-avi (best quality) and test in WMP.
If this is good, all is ok.
If this doesn't play well, save as a low quality movie option and see if
that plays well. If this is yes, tehn you more than likely have other
thoings affecting the save of the dv-avi, see previous site, or the pc isn't
capable of doing it.

Graham

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

 

[Guest]

Graham, thanks for the input. Actually initially I thought it was just the
preview which was low quality, however, when I replay it and also when I
record from there to a DVD the recording quality is the same, low quality.
Thing that does not happen when I only do it in the play mode directly from
the camcorder. I have burned severeal DVD's before with the same method and
also using other software however this time is not working and I cannot find
the issue. I have enough virtual memory and disk space so I know that is the
problem when capturing, it seems just to get really slow when I start
recording/capturing and that is affecting the quality of the movie.

I will look into the website you mentioned and see if I can find any
answers...thanks for the help.

Carlos