Choppy Video

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"Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote in message
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>I have a Sony DSC-P93 digital camera and had a question regarding shooting
> movies. I used a 256 MB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro and selected 640 Fine on
> my camera. When I played back the movie on my computer it was choppy and
> the sound was going in and out. I shot another segment with the setting
> set
> at 640 Standard and I had no problems.
>
> Could anyone assist me with this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>

Does it play on the camera correctly without being choppy? It could be your
PC is struggling to cope with the recording made in Fine mode.

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Was the first clip in low light.

Bill Crocker


"Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Ukuqd.102557$tU4.72316@okepread06...
>I have a Sony DSC-P93 digital camera and had a question regarding shooting
> movies. I used a 256 MB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro and selected 640 Fine on
> my camera. When I played back the movie on my computer it was choppy and
> the sound was going in and out. I shot another segment with the setting
> set
> at 640 Standard and I had no problems.
>
> Could anyone assist me with this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
>

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Ray wrote:

> It plays fine on the camera. I can play other MPEG's on my computer with no
> problem. I don't think it's my PC.

How are you plugging into the computer (camera USB cable, card reader?),
and are you sure it's a USB 2.0 port? USB 1.1 likely isn't fast enough
for the full-quality feed, or possibly the camera's own USB port isn't
fast enough (I get much faster transfer speeds, even on USB 1.1, using a
CF card reader compared to my DRebel's USB port). What if you copy the
files off the card onto the PC and then play them off the HDD?

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"Ray" <thecarreras@cox.net> wrote in message news:<Ukuqd.102557$tU4.72316@okepread06>...
> I have a Sony DSC-P93 digital camera and had a question regarding shooting
> movies. I used a 256 MB SanDisk Memory Stick Pro and selected 640 Fine on
> my camera. When I played back the movie on my computer it was choppy and
> the sound was going in and out. I shot another segment with the setting set
> at 640 Standard and I had no problems.
>
> Could anyone assist me with this problem.
>
> Thanks,

There is another newsgroup, rec.video.desktop that is probably a
better group to ask this of.

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Matt,
Thanks for your input...you were correct in that the movie plays better once
I copied into my hard drive, however, I'm disappointed in the quality of the
images. Maybe my expectations are too high...this is a still camera capable
of taking movies and not the other way around.

Also thanks to the others who gave me their suggestions as well !!!

Ray

"Matt Ion" <soundy@moltenimage.com> wrote in message
news:cWxqd.377789$%k.256132@pd7tw2no...
> Ray wrote:
>
> > It plays fine on the camera. I can play other MPEG's on my computer
with no
> > problem. I don't think it's my PC.
>
> How are you plugging into the computer (camera USB cable, card reader?),
> and are you sure it's a USB 2.0 port? USB 1.1 likely isn't fast enough
> for the full-quality feed, or possibly the camera's own USB port isn't
> fast enough (I get much faster transfer speeds, even on USB 1.1, using a
> CF card reader compared to my DRebel's USB port). What if you copy the
> files off the card onto the PC and then play them off the HDD?

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Yeah...it was the video images that I was refering to. Again thanks for
your input.
Ray

"Matt Ion" <soundy@moltenimage.com> wrote in message
news:rOfrd.384962$Pl.159777@pd7tw1no...
> Ray wrote:
>
> > Matt,
> > Thanks for your input...you were correct in that the movie plays better
once
> > I copied into my hard drive, however, I'm disappointed in the quality of
the
> > images. Maybe my expectations are too high...this is a still camera
capable
> > of taking movies and not the other way around.
>
> Which images - stills or video? Video quality, on those still cameras
> that support it, is generally artificially limited to minimize the
> amount of data - whether to minimize bandwidth on hardware that's not
> generally designed for large data streams, or to accomodate smaller
> memory cards, will depend on the exact design parameters of a given
camera.
>
> > Also thanks to the others who gave me their suggestions as well !!!
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > "Matt Ion" <soundy@moltenimage.com> wrote in message
> > news:cWxqd.377789$%k.256132@pd7tw2no...
> >
> >>Ray wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>It plays fine on the camera. I can play other MPEG's on my computer
> >
> > with no
> >
> >>>problem. I don't think it's my PC.
> >>
> >>How are you plugging into the computer (camera USB cable, card reader?),
> >>and are you sure it's a USB 2.0 port? USB 1.1 likely isn't fast enough
> >>for the full-quality feed, or possibly the camera's own USB port isn't
> >>fast enough (I get much faster transfer speeds, even on USB 1.1, using a
> >>CF card reader compared to my DRebel's USB port). What if you copy the
> >>files off the card onto the PC and then play them off the HDD?
> >
> >
> >