Need Help!!! Please!

[JKovach]

Last summer I bought a mini dv digital camcorder. So it uses those little tapes. But, since its digital, you can use the software cd and hook it up to your laptop/pc and put the videos on the computer. Well, I know a few people (like 3) that have digital camcorders, and when they put their videos on their laptop or computers... the quality is the same as when it is on the camcorder itself. They then put them on cds and the quality is great! I, however, put my videos on my laptop... and they are wicked choppy, you cannot follow what is actually going on at all... I used it for my Disney trip, and its my disney videos I am trying to get on cds and on my laptop... plus I don't know where else to go with this problem.

Please, i have a samsung 103... is it because my camcorder is bad? do I need a better camcorder... or is there some kind of software I can buy so that this won't be sucha problem? Please, does anyone know how to fix this. I am hoping its just the software...

Oh yeah, and I have (well HAD last year) a brand new laptop, so its not the laptop being slow. It's gotta be either the software or entirely just the camcorder. Can anyone help? THANKS SO MUCH!

 

[tk421-sw]

When you capture video onto a computer, it is one of the most drainning things you can do on it. It uses soo much memory that it is almost hard to do it on most laptops. The main thing that I would ask would be memory. How much do ya have anythiung less than 512 isn't going to work for you. What happens is this...

Computer can't take soo much input at once and "Drops frames" which is what it sounds like. I (now that I get a brand new laptop don't) normaly use my CPU. I run around 1 GB of Memory and have tons of hard drive space. Right now I have three harddrives hooked up, adding a fourth soon. and Hour and a half of pure DV video can take up as much as 13 GB. Most laptops don't come with an orverly large amount so you might want to look into an external, if you want to do it on a laptop. Now, you said you are going USB? Chekcto see if you have a firewire option. This is around 10x faster or soo and carries the data better. Check back and let me know. Thanks