Movie played on DVD player for TV is choppy

I have a Sony Handycam TRV22 and saved the video to my computer using a USB.
When watching the video it was beautiful. Then I used my Roxio Easy Media
Creator 7 to make a DVD movie gift with photos and the video. The photo part
was beautiful, but the video was awful, blocky, choppy, etc. I had that
program adjust it for TV DVD viewing but something didn't work. Is there a
way to record a DVD for TV in the Movie Maker 2? (I am brand new to all this
technology and need some guidance of where to go, etc.) Thank you for any
and all help! It is deeply appreciated.
Happy Holidays!

Graham
Wed Dec 29 13:20:00 CST 2004

It is best to use firewire to capture your video. This will give you full
quality dv-avi files. Capturing via usb results in low quality compressed
files being saved to your pc. When you make the dvd these files are
compressed again to Mpeg2 files, this can cause the problems you see.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"DRoman" <DRoman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0094D275-61F3-447E-86B8-33F521792183@microsoft.com...
> I have a Sony Handycam TRV22 and saved the video to my computer using a
USB.
> When watching the video it was beautiful. Then I used my Roxio Easy Media
> Creator 7 to make a DVD movie gift with photos and the video. The photo
part
> was beautiful, but the video was awful, blocky, choppy, etc. I had that
> program adjust it for TV DVD viewing but something didn't work. Is there
a
> way to record a DVD for TV in the Movie Maker 2? (I am brand new to all
this
> technology and need some guidance of where to go, etc.) Thank you for any
> and all help! It is deeply appreciated.
> Happy Holidays!
>

Mike_F
Sat Jan 08 16:13:02 CST 2005

I've been using Firewire IEEE 1394 to capture excellent video from camcorder
with Moviemaker 2 and saving DV-AVIs and sometimes get the choppiness which
DRoman asked about. After a lot of effort, research, talking to the DVD
Burner tech service geeks, I believe the problem is not having enough free
space on the hard drive. If you don't have at least double the size of the
file you want to burn, then you get fragmentation. You can see if the movie
file is fragmented by running Windows XP defragmenter and seeing which files
could not be fragmented. If your movie is one of them, then you should
increase the free space on your hard drive by burning onto DVDs to archive,
then defragging again, then start over by capturing from the camcorder again.
Anyway, that was my problem and that is how I solved it.

"Graham Hughes" wrote:

> It is best to use firewire to capture your video. This will give you full
> quality dv-avi files. Capturing via usb results in low quality compressed
> files being saved to your pc. When you make the dvd these files are
> compressed again to Mpeg2 files, this can cause the problems you see.
>
> --
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.dvds2treasure.com
> www.simplydv.com
>
>
> "DRoman" <DRoman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0094D275-61F3-447E-86B8-33F521792183@microsoft.com...
> > I have a Sony Handycam TRV22 and saved the video to my computer using a
> USB.
> > When watching the video it was beautiful. Then I used my Roxio Easy Media
> > Creator 7 to make a DVD movie gift with photos and the video. The photo
> part
> > was beautiful, but the video was awful, blocky, choppy, etc. I had that
> > program adjust it for TV DVD viewing but something didn't work. Is there
> a
> > way to record a DVD for TV in the Movie Maker 2? (I am brand new to all
> this
> > technology and need some guidance of where to go, etc.) Thank you for any
> > and all help! It is deeply appreciated.
> > Happy Holidays!
> >
>
>
>