static type sipping during movie?

[Toppler]

I just started to capture a new movie to my hard drive using video studio 10 and as i am watching it, i have noticed that it does this kinda statis thing but it kinda looks more like wen it does one of thoes emergency tv broadcasts with the colored squares, and then it makes this nasty static sound. I have tried using a firewire plug and everything. Any thoughts? also i have it set up so i go directly do my external hard drive instead of my in cmputer hard drive which was working fine until this capture as i have done 9 movies so far

[heinz-oz]

yeah, that could kinda stuff it, couldn't it? Could you please be a bit more precise? I got no idea what you are talking about.

[Ken Berry]

The kind of pixellated effect you describe is often the product of using the DV Type 2 encoder and you computer, for whatever reason, is not able to use it properly.

If you are indeed capturing to DV/AVI format, then in the Options cogwheel icon on the Capture page, change it from Type 2 to Type 1.

If you are capturing to another format, such as mpeg-2, then again your computer may just not be able to keep up. Capture to Type 1 DV instead.

While less likely, it might also have something to do with capturing to an external hard drive, though I have done this regularly in the past with both Firewire and USB 2 hard drives, with no problems. If by chance it is a USB 1 connection, it will be too slow.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

The problem is most likely the recording or playback quality of your camera

If you play the tape on the camcorder, do you see and hear the interference.
If yes, try cleaning the camera heads.

This may cure the problem, unless the condition is recorded to tape.
In which case the next recording should be ok

Regards

Trevor