After a few hassles, I managed to capture 45 minutes of video from a mini DV tape into Windows Movie Maker2.

However, parts of the completed video (a WMV file), has really dodgy framerates i.e. 2 or 3 times the normal speed and it ruins the whole thing because conversations and peoples' movements are too fast and are missed.

Is there anyway of stabilising the framerate so it is the same throughout the whole movie? Or now that the capture has been done is it too late to fix anything?

[Andy98765]

How did you capture the video, if by USB then this could be your problem, if your DV camcorder has IEEE 1394 (Firewire) output then this is the preferred output for quality.

[MarkE19]

Gary, this thread would be more suited to the camcorder & video editing forum, but.........

Capture the video via firewire & NOT USB (as suggested by Andy). A lot of the problems could be down to dropped frames as USB can't always keep up with the required constant transfer rate of video.
Also you should capture the video in the .AVI format. It eats up far more disc space but keeps 100% of the quality. Once you have finished editing you can then compress the footage to whatever format you need - ie MPEG-2 for a DVD.

I think that to correct the speed problems you have with the video you will need to recapture it as the quality & accuracy has already been lost.

Mark.