Chop in Video

Timpolo wrote on 1/2/2009, 8:34 PM
Hello all,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
I have a question:
In rendering my video i have tried a few different templates on a 45 second clip of the video and i am getting a chop in the sound and somewhat in the video. The video was taken with a Sony HD camera so i figured i'd take advantage of the higher quality video. Here is what i'm running into:
NTSC DV (720x480) = No chop in video or sound but video quality not where i would expect it to be with the HD camera.
MPEG2 with the HD setting rendered but i cannot open the video for some reason. The file extension is m2t.
MPEG1= No chop in video or sound but video seemed to be the worst.
It seems the higher quality video settings chop in sound and video BUT when the video is played it is high quality. The chop in video and sound is consistant throughout the render.
Any suggestions or something i may be missing??

Thanks in advance!!!!

Comments

Joe White wrote on 1/2/2009, 9:16 PM
What are you playing these rendered files in?
Timpolo wrote on 1/3/2009, 7:57 AM
I am playing the Rendered clips in Windows Media Player.
blink3times wrote on 1/3/2009, 8:14 AM
"I am playing the Rendered clips in Windows Media Player."

And that would be your problem. WMP stinks..... and is so far behind the times in playing the newer video formats. Try VLC... it's a free download.
Timpolo wrote on 1/3/2009, 10:42 AM
I was just about to burn the clips to a DVD and see if i get the same results as playing them in Windows Media Player. Thanks, you just saved me a DVD. I will download this program and see if it works. Thanks again.
Timpolo wrote on 1/3/2009, 10:56 AM
I have a question:

I downloaded the VLC program and it is worse than VLC. It plays the MPEG1 file fine BUT the HD videos don't show up and the audio is very intermittent. I wonder what i am doing wrong. I may just burn the 4 clips to DVD and see if the results are the same. I will post my results but if there are still suggestions, please feel free.

When i previewed these clips in V8 i would get the chop in the video and sound, i am not sure why it does this.
srode wrote on 1/3/2009, 11:50 AM
try burning on a RW disc and putting it in a stand alone DVD player to view and see if there's a difference. I know for bluray the images chop up some on my computer and play very smooth with excellent quality on my BD standalone player.
Timpolo wrote on 1/3/2009, 1:42 PM
srode,

Thanks for the tip. I did burn to a DVD (next time i won't waste the DVD) and the videos that chpped did not chop in the finished product. Is there something i need to do to my PC to correct this OR is it just the nature of it?
srode wrote on 1/4/2009, 4:09 AM
Timpolo

Haven't figured that out myself yet - I thought video card wasn't keeping up - but I have heard from others its an XP problem that Vista Corrected. My video card is a 7400GS - and OS is XP64 - what are you running?
Timpolo wrote on 1/4/2009, 6:07 PM
I am running Vista Home Premium