Terrible quality while "Capturing"

teamdnf · Post by **teamdnf** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:04 am

I am using a sony DCR-TRV350 camera through a USB port into a new 1394 capture card that I just installed on my new Dell Demension 3000 Series Intel Pentium 4 processor at 2.8 Ghz with 1MB cache 512MB DDR SDRAM at 400MHz {whatever that all means} When I play back the video the picture is TERRIBLE and misses lots of frames and the audio is the same TERRIBLE Quality. What could be so wrong??

By the way, I love how they sold this to me telling me it was "Powerful Video Editing Mede Easy" signed, dissapointed user

teamdnf · Post by **teamdnf** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:26 am

I am using studio 9

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:56 am

Mostly for capturing decent video you will need a firewire cable, rather than USB. Do you have one of those?

teamdnf · Post by **teamdnf** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:19 am

No I don't but I will buy one because the USB link is not even acceptable to look at. I thought you could at least use the USB for halfway decent video.but I guess I was wrong. thank you Any body else have any suggestions if that doesn't work?

TubaDad · Post by **TubaDad** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:26 am

I was thrown a bit by your description "through a USB port into a new 1394 capture card". If you have a 1394 card, you already have firewire and may just need a cable. The question I have, because I don't have experience with the Sony cameras, is whether it is a USB 2.0 type connection? USB 2.0 should give you a fast enough connection to capture well.

But I have seen several threads of people trying to capture through USB ports and none of them have happy stories. You mention that you are disappointed with "Powerful Video Editing Made Easy", hopefully when you capture with firewire you will see the editing capabilities are very good, and will change your mind.

Good luck.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:29 am

I am not even sure which procedure you are following on the basis of your original post. You seemed to suggest you had connected via the camera's USB port to the new IEEE 1394 card -- which of course is a Firewire card -- on your computer. Well, unless you were using one of the new hybrid cables we have only recently learned about which have Firewire on one end and USB 2.0 on the other, what you suggest you did is just not possible. The camera should have its own mini-Firewire (or iLink, it may be called) port, and it has to be connected to your computer Firewire port by a dedicated Firewire cable. Before you buy one, make sure about the size at each end. Normally it would be a mini-firewire plug at the camera end (4 pin) and the larger, standard 6 pin plug at the computer end. But depending on your own set-up, this could be different e.g. 4 pin to 4 pin.