Canon MV960 Probelms capturing DV to PC

[Camcorder Novice]

Using trial version of VideoStudio 10 Plus

Trying to capture video frrom Canon MV960 by firewire.

Video is captured fine but sound is really choppy.

Tried using the DV-to-DVD Wizard
Then tried using movie wizard to import selecting different video formats but to no avail.

Video works fine on camcorder and through TV.
Video is captured in MJPEG and sound is in the WAV format.

[Ken Berry]

On the Capture page, click on the little Options cogwheel icon, and change the DV Encoder Type from 2 to 1.

[Camcorder Novice]

Still having the same problem, very jittery sound

[sjj1805]

Using trial version of VideoStudio 10 Plus

Trying to capture video frrom Canon MV960 by firewire.

Video is captured fine but sound is really choppy.

Tried using the DV-to-DVD Wizard
Then tried using movie wizard to import selecting different video formats but to no avail.

Video works fine on camcorder and through TV.
Video is captured in MJPEG and sound is in the WAV format.

You have connected your camcorder to the computer by way of firewire. You should be transferring the contents of your camcorder to the computer and not capturing.
To do this you should select DV type 1 which is a form of AVI file and requires approx 13GB of hard drive space per hour.

MJPEG / MPEG and other compressed formats are
1. Only meant for viewing not editing
2. Have to be converted to that format on the fly which most computers are unable to do.

Take for example a 1 hour DV (AVI) file and now render it to MPEG2.
I bet you it takes longer than the hour long length of the video and wouldn't be surprised if it took a hour and half or even up to 3 hours to render.

When you transfer your video from your camcorder to the computer by way of firewire it is rather like downloading a file off the internet, or copying a file from one hard drive to another, There will be no loss of quality and no audio/video synchronisation issues.

[Camcorder Novice]

Thanks for that,

I should of updated at the weekend.

I figured out what the problem was.
My Soundblaster live video card drivers had somehow got corrupted, and couldn't play WAVE files.

Anyway, reinstalled the Sound card, works perfectly.

[Ken Berry]

Steve -- thanks for picking that up! I simply had not noticed that he was capturing to MJPEG of all things!!

Camcorder Novice -- you should listen to what Steve had to say. Who or what told you to capture to MJPEG format??