A Lot Of Pixelation During Capture

[Blackbeagle]

Hello there-

 

I'm a newbie to this program...sorta. I'm trying to do a capture and having some problems. When I'm viewing the capture on my LCD of my HD camcorder (Canon HV10), it plays fine. But the preview window on Roxio 10 (Roxio Media Import), it's pixalating really bad. I thought that was just the way it was. Then after I capture the whole scene and burn it to a DVD, the whole thing pixalates. Does anyone know my issue?

 

Windows XP

2.5 gig ram

512mb video

Tons of hd space.

 

Thx

[ggrussell]

How fast is your CPU and what video card do you have?

[Blackbeagle]

CPU is an Athlon 4800+. It should be fast enough for this program. Also have a 512mb ATI card.

[Larry]

Just a thought, but how do you have the camera connected to the pc? USB or Firewire IEEE1394? You need to be using Firewire for video capture.

[sknis]

CPU is an Athlon 4800+. It should be fast enough for this program. Also have a 512mb ATI card.

 

I assume you are capturing via Firewire. Which of the video options did you use to film? If I remember there are several all the way from 24p to 60i. I'm not sure if that is an issue or not. I don't remember anyone who has reported an issue with that camera. HD or SD? That camera uses the HDV compression rather than a AVCHD codec so there should be no conversion problem.

[Blackbeagle]

I assume you are capturing via Firewire. Which of the video options did you use to film? If I remember there are several all the way from 24p to 60i. I'm not sure if that is an issue or not. I don't remember anyone who has reported an issue with that camera. HD or SD? That camera uses the HDV compression rather than a AVCHD codec so there should be no conversion problem.

 

 

I use firewire. I've not had this problem with Ulead 10. It captures from there just fine. I just want to be able to use one program for everything.

[sknis]

I use firewire. I've not had this problem with Ulead 10. It captures from there just fine. I just want to be able to use one program for everything.

I just got the Canon HV 30 and taped a couple of minutes indoors and out. I was able to capture the video with no pixelation using Firewire. Where do you see the pixelation - in the capture or in Video Wave when you brought it into edit. Make sure that you have Video Wave set to software. Even though I have a good card, I ran into problems loading the video into Video Wave. Go to the top menu in Video Wave and select tools>options>put a dot near software.

 

I did see minor pixelation during a fast zoom when I viewed the captured file using WMP. I did not see it in Video Wave, IrfanView, or CinePlayer. I did not see it in Video Wave (in software render) nor in a wide screen DV file I made from Video Wave.

 

Can you give us a little more detail about where you see the pixelation. What type of scene? What filming set up. I assume HD bit what frames per second.

 

Another thought, update your video card drivers and DirectX.