Capturing advice needed.

Glennmizu · Post by **Glennmizu** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:25 am

Hello all.

After the frustration of out of sync problems with working in MPEG 2 files. (I have a Sony DVD Handycam 403 which records directly to mini DVD in MPEG2 with 5.1 surround sound). Great little camera but the out of sync problems when editing were driving me crazy. By splitting the audio I could fix the problem. I tried Video ReDo and Womble but doesn’t really fix the problem.

Every thing is fine when viewed in the “Clip” mode but as soon as you put it into the timeline and view as a “Project” it is out of sync.

SO I went and bought a new Sony HDV Handycam. Which records to a DV tape in HDV or DV.

I am planning to only use DV 16:9 for the moment. So my question is.

Is it best to use the firewire and capture in VS9 in AVI? Or is there a better way?

I intend to make a final DVD about 75min long and it will have many cuts and slow motion sections.

I could finish my first DVD using the DVD camera and it turned out well but if I didn’t have the out of sync problem associated with working in MPEG I would have saved a lot of time.

Cheers

Glenn Waters
www.glennwaters.com

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:56 am

Yes - from personal experience and from advice in this forum, you are far better to capture via firewire, and work in avi (DV) format. This involves a simple transfer of data, no processing required. Repeated editing and multiple renderings don't degrade quality.

When you have done all your editing, and have a project you are happy with, then it's time to compress it to mpeg and burn it to DVD.

General advice: do NOT do it all in one step. Create a video file first. Then load that video file in the burning module and process it for burning the DVD.

Glennmizu · Post by **Glennmizu** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:40 am

Hello Ron,

thank you for the help. I didn't want to go off doing something only to later find out that I should have done it a different way.

Many thanks