Jerky transfer

dexlee · Junior Editor Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 4

Hi all,

Sometime when I transfer the video from my camcorder to my laptop using firewire, the video played on the laptop seems abit jerky on the frame of the human. I am currently using window movie maker and ulead studio 8.

I've tried to shut down the unnecessary program runing while doing the transfering, but it doesn't seems to work. I am quite sure the problems lies with the transfer cos I am seeing perfect playback on my camcorder but not on the downloaded video on my laptop.

Any kind soul to help me?? Thanks!!

twigaG · Junior Editor Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

Sometimes you get things called "dropped frames"

If your computer can't write the data to the hard drive fast enough, or their's a block, or bottleneck somewhere this happens.

You can try again, or try and capture the video in small segments, giving the PC a change to catch up inbetween. And then put them together again in the video editing program.

Some progs tell you in capturing when you drop a frame... I know studio 8 does, and I think Adobe Premiere 6 does...

I hope this is of help to you.

Peace Cool

Monkey Ambassador · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject:

I haveing similar problems. Whenever I upload video onto my computer (I'm using windows movie maker, transfering with a regular USB cable) I get alot of laging and the image always looks very pixelish. How can I correct this?

LokiZ · Junior Editor Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 4

One thing you can do is defrag your hard drive if you don't do that very often. Especially if you are capturing to the same drive your soft and OS run on.

You are on the right track. kill all programs not needed... including anti-virus and any wireless networking. Maybe try a free program called "enditall" from the net to help you.

I agree that capturing small segments might also help you out in this situation.

outnertia · Junior Editor Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 23

Basically what i believe they are saying is, you may not be getting a jerky framerate during transfer, it only runs that way once its on your computer however the finished product should be jerk free ^^

though, Windows Movie Maker is also kinda buggy and well, just plain horrible Razz

go out and buy something as soon as you can ;]

I would say Nova Developments Video Explosion Deluxe. If you are getting a drop in frame rate, this program may be what you need. its not buggy as far as ive seen and it can maintain a good framerate and is still a very flexable program. its drawback is it limits your video tracks to 2 and your audio tracks to 3. Sony Vegas [same program just with more features] is much more expensive but with no limit on tracks but it will run slow on machines that are slower. Hope this helped somewhat.

YONG_LIN · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

Actually, many things can make your videos looks jerky: your computer and your video files.

Hard disk speed, Screen respond speed, video file datarate.

A laptop hard disk speed is usually slow, its read and writ speed is slower than your video datarate (Drop frames during capturing and playing back)

Your video card and/or LCD speed can not play back the video in real time.

Video file datarate is too hight that your computer can play it back in real time.

If you change or add a fast hard disk to your laptop will help. But I know 7200 RPM laptop hard disk is too expensive. Deframent your hard disk can inprove little.

Compress your video in a lower datarate format.