blind spot

[Schwarzenegger]

My camera is a Sony DCR-HC15E. My computer is a Dell Studio with Windows 7 and Service Pack 1. I recently recorded a tai chi (sword) demonstration and captured it with VideoStudio Pro X3. During the capture stage the recording looks perfectly normal on the computer screen but on replay in Edit mode some sequences stall for a second or two and then jump to the correct position in other words a piece of the action is missing and replaced with a still shot. Re-capture in a new project had the same result.
Does anyone have any idea what could cause this?

[Ken Berry]

Since your camera is a mini DV one, there is absolutely no reason why you should be having a problem. DV/AVI is possibly one of the easiest and most secure formats to edit, and then convert later to whatever output you want e.g. DVD.

However, to get the best quality, you need to capture it using Firewire. You don't give any computer details, but can we assume that your computer has a Firewire port and that you used it to capture the video? Or did you use USB for capture? If so, then it would be low quality streaming-type video.

[Schwarzenegger]

Thanks for your reply. I did use Firewire. I haven't had this problem before and the problem was not visible in the capture step. In this sequence however it occurred twice within a few seconds. Could a sudden flash of light from the sword blade be the cause?

[Ken Berry]

You cld try installing a small freeware program a lot of us here use called WinDV: http://www.windv.mourek.cz If you have the same problem with video captured with it, then we wld need to look more closely at the video in question.