AUDIO Problems

zarius wrote on 6/26/2005, 8:05 AM
Hi!
I am having audio problems.
When capturing video from my Sony DV
Via Firewire, the audio is completely choppy.

Are there any settings that I should know how to tweak for this?
I trouble shot the database and couldn't find the latency menu they discussed in preferences.

Could this be a setting problem in my camera?
Could it be my soundcard?
Thank you for any help!
Z.

Comments

B.Verlik wrote on 6/27/2005, 10:53 PM
My guess is, you're talking about "As you capture" not the already captured sound. This is very normal and I've yet to see anybody describe, succinctly, what you need to do to hear the sound in a normal way, while capturing. I'm sure the best computer and sound card might achieve that, but will it?
If this is capable, will somebody please describe just what's needed?
Spot|DSE wrote on 6/28/2005, 12:25 AM
Size your capture window smaller, you'll not have this in most cases.
You shouldn't be having any stutter during capture on any reasonable, recently built machine.
You will always have latency, or audio that is not playing back in sync when you hear it on a computer at the same time as you're hearing it from the camera/live output. That latency is part of the firewire communication process. Listen to either original audio or audio as it goes to hard drive, but not both at the same time.
Lili wrote on 6/28/2005, 8:04 AM
I've experienced same thing at times, but only when frames are dropping during the capture - and that's rare. Even then, it usually only happens at the very start or end of the tape.

As soon as I hear the choppy audio, I know it's dropping frames. Although this may not be the case with you - thought I would mention my experience with same thing
B.Verlik wrote on 6/28/2005, 2:36 PM
Mine also sounds even worse if I'm recording to my "D" Drive. But my "C" Drive sounds bad enough, but almost understandable.
chrisconleyradio wrote on 6/29/2005, 6:44 PM
try minimizing the window in capture. Sometimes if the window is big it just takes up two much resourses. The result..video looks ok but audio is choppy.

good luck