Sound drops out in VS 7

cake · Post by **cake** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:55 pm

I have searched around on this forum, read some threads related to this, but I still need some help.

I am capturing video from a Samsung SC-D363 (Digital Cam) to a Windows XP SP2 computer. The PC has no firewire, and adding it is not really an option right now. It does have USB ports, but I have not checked to see if they are USB 1 or 2. I am using Ulead Video Studio SE 7 (Just got the camera and that is the version that came with it).

When I capture the video, I am using the AVI format. On playback, the sound is great, then the sound drops out every 5 seconds or so. Well the sound does not go away completely, you can barely hear it (sounds like it's coming from the inside of a tin can). It keeps doing this during the entire video that I have captured.

Is this because I am capturing via USB? Or is there some setting I should change?

Another thing, I have a TV card on another PC here, is there a way I could use that to transfer the video instead with better results?

Thanks for your help.

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:41 pm

HI cake, and welcome to the forums..

To transfer the video files to your computer, it is always best to use firewire. I know it's not an option for you right now. USB if it is USB2.0 can be used. I think the reason for your problems has to do with using USB, and probably USB1.
On your other computer you have a TV card. Does it have the ability to capture video from a camcorder, or VCR? If so what brand is it, and how does it capture, RCA composite? That could be better then using USB.

When you are capturing, are you getting a lot of dropped frames?

Could you please complete your system information in your profile? This will help us in figuring this out.

Also what are your capture, and project properties? You say you are capturing to AVI, is this DV-AVI or Uncompressed AVI? DV-AVI yields files of about 13gig per hour, where Uncompressed AVI yields files of about 65 gigs per hour.

Ron P.

cake · Post by **cake** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:37 pm

vidoman wrote: On your other computer you have a TV card. Does it have the ability to capture video from a camcorder, or VCR? If so what brand is it, and how does it capture, RCA composite? That could be better then using USB.

When you are capturing, are you getting a lot of dropped frames?

Could you please complete your system information in your profile? This will help us in figuring this out.

Also what are your capture, and project properties? You say you are capturing to AVI, is this DV-AVI or Uncompressed AVI? DV-AVI yields files of about 13gig per hour, where Uncompressed AVI yields files of about 65 gigs per hour.

Ron P.

Thanks for your response.

On the TV Card, I'll have to look for the box, but I think it's a WIN TV card by Hauppauge. The card does have the ablity to capture video because I was able to do so with a different camcorder, however I wasn't able to get sound, only video, maybe I was using the wrong cable. I'm sorry, I don't know much about this at all, so I can't tell you if it uses RCA composite or not.

About AVI, uhhhh..all I know is that in the capture window the format selected is AVI, it doesn't mention anything about DVI...is there somewhere else I can check that for?

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:52 pm

I don't know if VS7 supports a Haupauge Card. I know Ulead typically issues a patch for each of it's versions for Haupauge Cards. VS7 is a Phased out product so it might be fun locating the patches for it.

If you captured video using an S-Video card, then you would only get the video not audio. You would have to use a seperate audio cable connected from your camcorder to the computer's Line-in jack of the sound card to capture the audio.

Ron P.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:16 pm

Within VS7, right click on one of your captured files, copy out the Properties, and post them here. That will at least help us tell what format you are capturing in.

Without meaning to lecture on the subject, while installing a Firewire card might not be a possibility right now, you are making a rod to beat your own back with. Except for some very high end, recent mini DV cameras, really the only way of transferring high quality digital video from a mini DV camera to your computer is via Firewire. That is why it was invented in the first place.

The fact that the computer has USB ports which may (or may not) be USB 2.0 is also largely irrelevant if the camera itself has only a USB 1.0 port, which I suspect is probably the case. Apart from the high end cameras I mentioned (which have USB 2.0 ports), these USB ports on the other cameras are meant to transfer at most either still photos taken with the camera or else low quality streaming video suitable for websites but not for making high quality DVDs.