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Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

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Old 10-08-2007, 2:11 AM   #1
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Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

hi, can someone plz shed some light as to what is causing the picture to break up on the video after it has been imported to the pc from hdv. the video is perfect when played back from the camera. it happens on random intervals. is my pc not quick enough perhaps to handle the capture (2.25ghz athlon xp 2600 + 1gig ram...)

iv attached a screenshot to describe what the problem is...

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Old 10-08-2007, 5:33 AM   #2
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Re: Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

It should be..

Try defragmenting the HDD if you dont suspect a dirty tape head, doesn't look like typical dropout
You never did give a feedback about motion browser ..and what you now capture with

BTW is this query different to THIS?

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Old 10-08-2007, 6:56 AM   #3
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Re: Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

How are you capturing the video USB (forget it) or Firewire (the way to go)
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Re: Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

I suspect firewire. AFAIK no HDV camcorder does USB transfer and even with DV very few do and only with specific software as most NLE software only support import by firewire
The other thing is to turn off antivirus ect, go off the internet and generally minimise any background memory hugging processes during capture
In general with video capturing , the less the PC has to do the better

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Re: Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

2.25ghz athlon xp 2600 + 1gig ram isn't fast enough for HDV. At least not for the m2t 1080 x 50i uncompressed stream.

Unless your CPU is seriously overclocked then I don't think that a 2600 Athlon runs at 2.25GHz - we have 3200 Athlons that run at 2.2GHz out of the box. They won't play 1080 x 50i native uncompressed m2t.
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Re: Strange Glitch after Capturing To Pc: Random Blocky Artifacts

hi guys thanks for replies!

senu: il try defragmenting and see if that helps. sorry about the pic motion reply ...to capture im using sony vegas 7 at the moment. oh and it was the same problem as that other thread. just didnt get no replies on that , maybe i wasnt too clear in that

rhubarbe: yep the xp 2600 is overclocked at the highest i can get it. stock speed is about 1.8ghz lol. been running it overclocked since day 1, about 4 years now i think, maybe more.

on the whole the pc is due a good upgrade. probably going to go for an e4400 and ramp it up to 3ghz+ - its a killer!...and cheap lol

oh and just as a side note, the m2t files play flawlessly on the ps3 (merged all the files together to give 3.53gb file, only 19minutes lol). is there a recognised file limit of 4gb on the ps3, think i read something about that...sorry to go off topic there...

thanks guys,

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