Ulead VideoStudio 9 double images

my76cj7 · Post by **my76cj7** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:23 pm

I have Ulead VideoStudio 9 when I try to capture video with my Panasonic Highspeed video camera (AG-DVC30P), I get distortion lines and double images. I have used the software before without issue but they have changed the computer and cables. The last time I used an SVideo and now that cable is gone I only have a 1394. I am using this to troubleshoot high speed machines at work and am really stuck.

Dan

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon May 12, 2008 9:49 pm

Welcome to the forums!

The AG-DVC30P was a nice camera in its day -- though I seem to recall that it did not have true 16:9 widescreen capacity... Anyway, as a mini DV camera, you *should* be using firewire to download video from the camera to your computer. I say 'download' since if you are also capturing in DV format in VS9 (which you should be, rather than in DVD-compatible mpeg-2), you are capturing in exactly the same properties as on the mini DV tape. VS9, moreover, did a good job in capturing DV so there is no obvious software reason why it should not be working now.

You could test whether it is VS9 or not which is creating the problem, by downloading a small freeware DV capture program called WinDV from windv.mourek.cz A number of us on this forum use it extensively and it does an excellent job with no dropped frames. Try that, and if you still get double images etc, then I would begin to suspect a hardware, rather than software, problem.

One final thought, what is the operating system (and other specs) of your computer?

my76cj7 · Post by **my76cj7** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:29 am

The operating System is Windows XP. I think the last time I used the camera I used the Svideo cable but I had to capture while frame advancing to get what I needed to see in slow motion. I hope that I will be able to record at regular speed and slow it down another way with the FireWire.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:56 am

You can control playback speed within Video Studio...

my76cj7 · Post by **my76cj7** » Tue May 13, 2008 10:45 pm

Today they made me use another program to do the capture sadly can't remember the name but I was familiar with it, popular one. Looks like it did alot my concern is just for playback in a Power point or something gotta have it slow to prove my theories