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Help in capturing videos from Sony TRV245

X-Mikael_Winroth
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Dec 9, 2003, 6:34 PM

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Hello,
I've just bought an Sony TRV245 and can't get the video capturing to work properly.
When I view recorded movie on my tv through a S-VHS cable the quality is great. But when I transfer the same video to my computer through an USB cable I loose much quality. The image gets "pixelated" and the quality feels low resoluted.
Will a firewire connection solve this problem?

X-David_Stoneburner
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Dec 10, 2003, 9:25 AM

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It sounds like your USB capture is capturing at a much lower resolution. More of a video cd resolutiong of 352 or 320 by 240. I would double check your software and adapter, but yes the best way would be to put a firewire card in your system. You can get them for around $20 on Ebay. All of them should give you the same quality. Make sure that your OS will recognize the card and the software you want to use will also. I know that windows movie maker II for XP does a really nice job working with firewire cards. It is easy to use, but really really basic, but hey it's free. Avid now has a free program called Avid FreeDV. It gives you the professional Avid interface, but not all the features of their $600 program. There you go. Good luck.

X-Mikael_Winroth
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Dec 10, 2003, 10:32 AM

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Thank for your reply!
I've bought a firewire connection now and another issue has come up. The captured video is very very dark, on the camera lcd display the picture is much more brighter (even if I adjust it to the very darkest).
I've tried to capture with adobe premiere, ulead videostudio and imagemixer.

X-Doug_Graham
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Dec 10, 2003, 11:56 AM

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: I've bought a firewire connection now and another issue has come up. The captured video is very very dark, on the camera lcd display the picture is much more brighter
This isn't a problem with your camera, or how you are capturing. It's just that video looks different (usually darker) in the overlay window on a computer monitor, compared to how it looks when displayed on a television monitor. This is because the two displays have different color temperatures and "gamma curves".
Do not make critical decisions regarding brightness or color by judging from the computer overlay window! Play the video on a (properly calibrated) TV (by hooking one to your camcorder or other Firewire device). If the video still looks dark, then you need to calibrate your camcorder's LCD display before you do any more shooting. There's an article on how to calibrate a display here in the Free Articles section of the website.
(It IS possible to make the computer's display more closely match what you see on a television, but it will probably make the rest of the screen look uncomfortably bright.)
Regards,
Doug Graham

X-Mikael_Winroth
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Dec 10, 2003, 4:34 PM

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Thank you very much for sharing knowledge in video.
Your answer has solved my problems and I'll won't need to stay up until 4 am another night!
Video editing has shown to be a rather hard challenge. I'm used to work with images and audio but video is all about learning from scratch.
Kindest regards,
Mikael Winroth

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Feb 15, 2004, 10:00 AM

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:I have a problem please help me. I recorded a party and tried to edit in image mixer 1.5 by capturing it from Soney TRV245
i am getting the picture but not the sound
when i play back in the camera itself the sound is there.
when i used another camcoder trv145 the with same digital8 casette it i could get the sound and i checked all the setting of my camcoder and the second one and seems to be perfect
the problem is i am not able to get the sound when it is tried to capture through the TRV245.
it is not the problem of cable and software since it worked for second camcoder)
please do suggest me what i have to do with it
thanking you in anticipation
sincerely
sumesh