Capturing Video, jumps forward

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I have a Sony DV camcorder. I have been using a DV firewire (IEEE 1394) to
transfer my videos to computers. I don't use it often though.. except now it
is soccer/band season. The last time I used it successfully was in Jan 2005
and it transferred fine. Now when I use the DV cord, it records, but jumps
forward and it 'broken' up. I tried using the USB cord and it does transfer
w/o the jumps, but the video quality is much less.

My guess was a driver, but can't confirm that. Another possibility I came
across was a conflict with a Windows Service Pack 2 update. My husband
handles those things.

Help! I have many videos to transfer, but the quality is terrible!
 
smooth transfer to and from a camcorder is highly dependent on the status of
the hard drive... tune it up by freeing space and defragging...

try the WinDV utility (link on my Setup > Other Software website page)...it
uses a larger buffer than Movie Maker to help the transfer.
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I too am getting the same problem. I am getting discouraged becasue of the
long amount of time the transfer takes, and then not being able to see these
'jumps' or 'skips' until after the movie is burned. I recently decided to
defragment my hard drive, as I saw from one of the help boards that this
might improve my transfer. I also had other things running while I
trandsferred. I am going to try again but if anyone has been able to solve
this problem, I'd love to hear!!
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I have not tried them yet...

But I was reading the Papa John Movie Maker 2 site and it mentioned a
possible conflict with the NVIDIA video card. I searched my computer for this
and found that the last change date (??) was about 2002. The Microsoft soft
seems to say there is a newer one in 2003. Should I update this? I have had
some error messages with this NVIDIA thing for the last several months.

Also I was searching my driver folders and the 1394 folder is empty. I have
lots of 1394-type files in other places like DRIVER.CAB. I don't feel
comfortable messing with that though.

Anyway, until I hear from you video/computer wizards, I will start with
defragging. We do that fairly often though, so I don't have high hopes.

My husband did a 'hot-fix' the other night that he thought would help, but
it did not.

Please help. I like using this. But is is fairly useless at this point
unless I use a USB transfer.

MovieMama
 
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