HD capture using PE 4 showing ''messed...

I've just purchased a Canon HV-30 and shot some video in HD that I then tried to capture with my PC using PE 4. The captured video, when played back in PE4, was messed up - it showed big green spaces in some places (like someone had put many green cubes on the screen) and some of the video was shown as a broken-up still image superimposed on the video either earlier or later than it should have been. Are these dropped frames that I've heard a little bit about? Is it a function of a bad tape or software issues? Or a bad camcorder?

The video plays back great on a TV, when I play it directly connected to the camcorder.

We are planning on upgrading our PC, but at the moment we meet all but one of the spec requirements as described in the Read Me file - we have a slower processor than is recommended for HD. (2.80 GHz as opposed to the recommended 3 GHz) If I tried to capture it in SD (which has smaller requirements) and it was OK, would that say that the camcorder and tape were OK?

Just want to understand what I'm seeing - the deadline for returning the camcorder if I feel that it's defective is fast approaching...
HD capture using PE 4 showing ''messed...
If you are capturing HDV footage over FireWire, make sure that the Premiere Elements project you're capturing to is set up for HDV footage.



Also, your computer may well be below spec for editing HDV. Although, if you've got at least 2 gigs of RAM and you're running XP (rather than Vista), you may be able to work with short HDV video segments.
HD capture using PE 4 showing ''messed...
Sounds like possibly a bad Firewire card or cable.

Download HDVSplit and try capturing with that program, it is a better HDV capture program than Premiere Elements anyway and it is free.

See if you get the same results. If you do then it is the Firewire card or cable, if not then it is a problem with Premiere Elements.

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Thanks for the replies.



I'll download HDVSplit and give that a try.



One more question on dropped frames. What does it look like when a video contains dropped frames? Is it just a missing frame so that the video looks a bit jumpy? Or could it create a bunch of strange stuff like I'm seeing - green cubes, ghost-like still images, etc...

Dropped frames with DV-AVI are short and can appear as jumps in the video. HDV is MPEG2 and the structure is such that dropped frames can appear as green cubes and can occur over a relatively long period. If you get the same with HDVSplit it may be that infact what you are seeing is drop-outs... ie issues during capturing due to the tape or dirty recording heads.



How often are you seeing this, is it at specific points such as when the tape was stopped or started? Or is it after you have edited clips. And do you see them when you play the clips in a mediaplayer.

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