Video and audio are choppy

Jonboy85 wrote on 4/29/2008, 6:50 AM

Hi.

I have a Sony HandyCam Digital 8 series DV camcorder. I believe it is the TNC-250 model. Anyway, I use Vegas Movie Studio Platinum to make stuff with. Whenever I capture, the video is choppy, and the audio is choppy (staticy).

Is there any way to stop this? I have it set to capture to another hard drive. And I have no programs or other processes running except what is necessary to run the machine.

My OS is Vista Home Premium. Eventually I had to use Windows Movie Maker on my dad's machine that runs XP Home Ed. to capture it. Then transfer it back to my machine.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Comments

Jonboy85 wrote on 4/29/2008, 6:56 AM

I forgot to mention that I use USB 2.0 as the interface between the camera and the computer. Also, I kept getting dropped frames, even capturing to a separate hard drive.
When I didn't get dropped frames the video was EXTREMELY choppy or slow. The sound was not even there. Or it was choppy or staticy.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 4/29/2008, 11:00 AM

Remember this basic rule: firewire good, usb bad. First change this, and see if your problems go away.
digi8 should be ok, as you will be capturing dv anyhow.

Jonboy85 wrote on 4/29/2008, 11:01 AM

roger. I'll try that and see what happens. Thanx for the heads-up! :)