Saving to DV

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OK. I've looked through these posts and I have looked at
papajohn.org, but I haven't found a problem exactly like
mine.

I saved two hours of interview with my mother in Best
quality for your computer (it said recommended!), spent
many hours editing by inserting pictures based on what she
was talking about, then saved to my computer. This file
looks great!

I wanted to make vhs tapes for my sibs for Christmas, so I
cut the movie project into two parts, then saved to my DV
camera on two tapes. The result audio and video was jumpy
and choppy.

I have now promised my sibs DVDs (my brother is getting a
burner), so I tried to save part one as a DV-AVI file on
my computer. I kicked it off at 7 pm and got an
estimation of 2 hours. At 9 pm it jumped from 43 minutes
left to 67 minutes left (66%). I went to bed. At 4:30 am
it still read 66% but indicated 253 minutes left. I
checked task manager for activity but my system was
basically idle. I cancelled the process in MM2.

I have to admit, I'm pushing the envelope on space for DV-
AVI, but thought I had enough for part one.

Can anyone surmise why writing DV-AVI directly to tape
ended up choppy, and/or why saving DV-AVI to computer
stops at 66%?

Any solutions will be greatly appreciated.
 
When exporting to tape, did you turn everything else off? ie: screen saver,
power saver, clock, virus software, etc. If you are short of hard drive
space, did you defrag before and after creating your project. It may be that
your system is underpowered.
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Sincerely,
Carey Robson
 
I had a similiar problem: i.e. choppy sound after rendering to DV-AVI and "back to camera".

Here's one way I worked around it:
- My computer has a video-out connection, so I can display my computer screen onto my TV screen by plugging my adaptor into the yellow RCA video jack on my VCR.
- Next thing to import is sound: I bought a wye adaptor that has RCA red and white plugs on one end, and a stereo headphone jack on the other end. I plugged into the headphone jack on my computer, and the RCA audio-in jacks on my VCR.
- I opened Windows Media Player9 on my computer and hit the "play" button, and "full screen".
- When you see the movie on your TV screen, hit the "record" button on your VCR. It helps to have plenty of blank space at the start of your movie because Media player will not go "full screen" until after you hit the "play" button, and you most likely will not want the transition from Media Player to Full Screen to show up on your edited video.
 
Peg,
OK. I've looked through these posts and I have looked at
papajohn.org, but I haven't found a problem exactly like
mine.
Click to expand...

Being the coincidence of our post was so close, if this
included the post, "Solved? Audio @ trans Problem" and now
the thread, and you have tried the suggestion, please
excuse Me.

If not, please consider that workaround...with this
suggestion:
It is not enough to merely render the project to a movie
on your computer and/or view it there.

However, because I don't know if it will work for you
[Seeing you explain subtle differences] together with the
length of your project, try it with a 15 minute section
from a highly editted portion of your project. Though it
might not matter, I am also presuming that you have audio
in the Second Audio Track and this would indicate your
project might benefit from the Technique I suggest.

If you are experiencing The Problem, you must separately
render your Video and Audio tracks to Movie then import
them seperately, whole, into a New Project and Save Movie
from that Clear/clean project to DV-AVI....and, being my
experience is with Mini-DV, with the proper hookups you
can save concurrently to VHS, if that's ultimately the
appropriate media.

If The Problem goes away on the sample project piece then
you might be in a better position to invest the time and
apply the technique to the overall project.
You might consider further dividing the project into half
hour sections, if you are at the limit of your storage now.

Defrag and changing power management to Always On and
terminating any background programs is a good idea, even
if to eliminate the possibility of interference.

And, as is my experience, if it takes approx. 40 minutes
to render a 12 minute video expect a very long render on a
one hour movie. Also I wouldn't trust the Remaining Time
counter. Since it appears the PCM Converter has problems
it can't be expected to accurately represent bit rates it
can't or as yet hasn't handled. The indication appears
only as relative to what part of the "clip" the Converter
is working on in that moment. I have seen wildly changing
time estimates even on 10 to 15 minute video projects.

Good Luck. Sounds like an admirable project...Ala "Ken
Burns".

I hope you resolve your issue.
Did Bill Gates have these problems when he sent his family
video?
:-)

Anthony.
 
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