New digital Camcorder....Firewire to Computer/Playback issue

[conrod]

I'm having a little trouble with my new setup. I've got a new Panasonic GS-150 MiniDV camcorder with which I made a homemade video last night. Captured the video via Firewire and Windows moviemaker. Did some editing and then returned it back to the camcorder. The edited and unedited movie when played on the computer is like the old Godzilla movies.....lips move and then sound comes. LOL.. well maybe not that bad, but you know what I mean. (The sound lags) Now, when played on the TV, the unedited is perfect, but the edited portion is still off on the sound issue.

Any ideas as to what may be going on?


Thanks in advance for your expert advice,

Conrad

[DebianDog]

I would guess slow disk or CPU. Also remember the editor is an editor not a "player"

[conrod]

Thanks for your reply, Dan.

So what would be the required disk/cpu/amount of ram needed to get this right?

[DebianDog]

Honestly in the PC world I have no idea. Exactly.

This will help.

- Having more than 1 disk for everything is very helpful (ie system on disk 1 video on disk 2)
- Only your movie editor running (nothing else)
- On a Mac you system runs smooth at about 512 megs of RAM or more I would guess the same is true for a PC?

[conrod]

I have two harddrives...one for programs, other for games. I did have antivirus running in background, so will try to capture again with it off.

I've got 512megs of DDR2 - 3200 ram - 2.6 G pentium, XP-Home Edition - SP2
Nvidia GForce FX 5700 w/ 128meg memory

[HelicopterJohn]

conrod,

Is Windows Movie Maker still limited to making CD's and not DVD's?

I spent some time with it a while back thinking I could do some editing and then write it to a DVD. Got a message that you can't record DVD's or something like that.

Microsoft is behind the curve on that one if it has not been updated. IMOVIE from the MAC side has it beat hands down.

PS. I am a Windows user currently

[DebianDog]

I have two harddrives...one for programs, other for games. I did have antivirus running in background, so will try to capture again with it off.

I've got 512megs of DDR2 - 3200 ram - 2.6 G pentium, XP-Home Edition - SP2
Nvidia GForce FX 5700 w/ 128meg memory

Pull the media to your games drive.

[WillJames]

What format did you do the initial capture from you camera in Conrad? If your initial capture is poor quality, it will never get any better than that, no matter how much editing you do. DV-AVI is the highest quality you can apture in and what I use, then when you render your work "Save movie file" you select a much lower quality for web content.