Topic: Video camcorder glitches.... Help!

I am looking to record some video, converting it from analog to DVD format. I have used Dazzle with only the s-video cable and audio inputs... the Dazzle Device does not have 1394 Firewire... and I am having glitches in the video and audio galore. is there any other way i can go about converting the video from analog to a decent DVD fromat? This is going from a 3-5 yr old camcorder, again no ilink or firewire on the cam. I was thinking of using pinnacle DV200 with adobe premire 6.0. is this a good way to go, or do you guys have anyother suggestions?

Woof!

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what kind of DVD format are you talking about?
DVD is MPEG2 codec and Dolby Sound.

did you already get the video on your computer? (with the dazzle?)

MPEG2 format. I did have the video on my computer when I took it off the camcoreder thru dazzle, but there was a lot of skips and pops in the video, glitches in the format.

Woof!

WOOF! ^..^___)

My school uses Dazzle, it's completely horrible. Never had a single good capture with it. If my final project this semester had relied on good audio, I would have failed. Return it if you can get your money back, and buy a firewire card or something.

Unless, of course, you know more about this than I do (which is very probable), and think it's not Dazzle itself that's the problem.

you may have system speed problems, sounds like you're dropping frames. Like Slime said there... I've never heard a good thing about Dazzle, and only recently heard of it, all bad.

If you can use the Pinnacle card you'll do better I bet and it's drivers and additional software may have the codecs you're after as well as the DVD authorware. You do realize that the *quality* will be no better than what your original tape is don't you? No magic to compressing it to MPEG2.

This is assuming that your system is fast enough and capable of sustaining 3-6MB per second transfer from card to hardrive. Minimum hardrive speed of 7200RPM...

Jason

To praise the Pinnacle: I have the DV200 and a Sony Digital Handycam. Excellent quality video! Yeah, look at your RAM and processor speed, and make sure you resolve any hardware conflicts you may have, just in case. Make sure you got nothing else running when you're doing video capture and your vido card may make a big difference. I have the Radeon 64MB DDR card and it captures excellent live footage by itself, with just the s-video connection. You may be capturing just fine, but perhaps your video card/computer can't handle the playback.

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