NEW HP, NEW CAMERA, ARTIFACTS EVERYWHERE

jazzmaster wrote on 12/15/2008, 12:45 AM

I just bought a new Sony V1U and an HP dual-core E2200 machine with 3 GB of ram and Windows Vista 64. I have two main problems.
When I capture video from the camera straight into the computer, I get artifacts everywhere. Really bad.

The other problems is that when I make a DVD with 5.0, it doesn't start playing for five seconds and then the first five seconds of video are all jumpy. Then it settles down and plays fine.

Any answers for me.
Thanks in advance,
Burt

Comments

farss wrote on 12/15/2008, 1:13 AM

1) What kind of artifacts, that's such a general term it could be anything.

2) Sounds like either cheap media, bad burn or bitrate too high.

Bob.

jazzmaster wrote on 12/15/2008, 8:46 AM

I get groups of multi-colored horizontal flashes--in groups--in all places on the screen. It is an instant thing, but very noticible because there are so many. The best thing I can compare it to is that single horizontal line at the bottom of video. It seems they flash out in different places each time, but always in groups.
Burt

jrazz wrote on 12/15/2008, 9:25 AM

I used to get lines of colored (green/red/yellow/etc.) reading issues from the heads while capturing. That was when I was using a cheap cam for capture. I found that if I recaptured that area it may or may not do the same thing but hardly ever in the same place. It was due to the tape I was using, the heads being gunked up. I could run a cleaner through it and it would work fine for a few times and then start doing it again.

If this is not what you are experiencing, please submit a screen capture of what you are seeing.

j razz

jazzmaster wrote on 12/15/2008, 11:03 AM

I'll try to do that when I get home from work. The thing is: I'm not using tape. I'm capturing from a firewire directly into the Vegas capture program. That is what has me going nuts.

Skuzzy wrote on 12/15/2008, 12:47 PM

Just a thought, but could there be another high data usage device on the same IRQ as your firewire port? I have seen things get ugly when a sound card was being shared with a USB port before.

With an HP machine, you never know.

jazzmaster wrote on 12/15/2008, 3:43 PM

I'd check that out if I knew how to do it.

Skuzzy wrote on 12/15/2008, 4:36 PM

The hardware device manager is one way.

jazzmaster wrote on 12/16/2008, 10:28 PM

For anyone who cares, I called HP and they said I should upgrade the video card and the power supply. I upgraded the video cared and lo! the video is PRISTINE! Will wonders never cease. I'm waiting on the power supply, I have a 250 and it will take up to a 450.
thanks for the concern!!
Burt

Skuzzy wrote on 12/17/2008, 7:31 AM

That explains it. It is the rare HP system you can upgrade the video card without upgrading the power supply.

Coursedesign wrote on 12/17/2008, 8:12 AM

For perspective, recent HP Windows workstations and Mac Pro ditto have power supplies approaching 1,000 watts.

jazzmaster wrote on 12/17/2008, 10:25 AM

For more perspective. It used to take me 50 min. to burn a DVD on my old Sony Vaio. Now it takes 8 minutes. Also, I paid only $399 for the system. Now works fine.