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Any suggestions would be appreciated, or anyone with similar problem: After capturing from the camera, the resultant .AVI file plays back jerky. Almost like a random freeze-frame, as if it jumps or drops frames. It is very hard to watch, as the eye seems to jump with the video. It is not a smooth movement, and is particularly evident when doing say, a long pan from left to right.
The video if fine when played on the TV from the camera's analog video out jack. It only happens when I use the IEEE 1394 and create an AVI file.
I have a Canon Elura 50 Mini DV camcorder and I'm playing the tape back through the built-in Firewire/IEEE 1394 port, through a cable to my computer. I have some fair horsepower (P4 2.8Ghz. 512MB. RAM, 200GB. Drive, etc.), so I doubt it to be a slow computer. I use a 4-port IEEE 1394 PCI board with VIA chipset.
It's very annoying, as I've not been able to burn any video from tape. Even when I recode to a DVD and play it on the TV, the DVD is jerky too - almost impossible to watch.
It's not all the time, but every 10-30 seconds or so, and very random, almost like a buffer is filling up somewhere. I've used several capture programs, such as Nero and Scenealyzer, which tells me I have no dropped frames, but makes no difference.
I've poked around the different forums, and haven't really seen a similar problem. Everyone says, you just plug the cable in and copy the tape straight onto an AVI - no problem. Well, I've always had this problem, and I'm beginning to wonder if it's the camera - perhaps a faulty IEEE 1394 card?
Suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance,
Duncan McAllister
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