is needed for HDV. HDV needs something like Sony Vegas, a dual core AMD 64 with good speed, at least 1 gig of memory, and lots of fast harddrive space.
You could try having the camera downsample to SD quality, and, perhaps, your machine will be fast enough for that. It really, really needs more memory, and better software. Freestuff or Windows Movie Maker is really not going to cut it.
On the plus side, you are shooting HDV and will have that available in the future.
Hi there,
I'm trying to capture some video from my Sony DCR-HC18E. On the viewfinder or directly connected to the TV the quality is great but when captured on my computer it's low resolution and jumpy.
I've used Windows Movie Maker 2 and a small freeware utility called Fx Video Capture. In both cases they're at maximum quality settings, but the resulting video is always the same.
How can I get video captured at top quality?
Thanks a lot for your help,
Adam
P.S. Here are my specs:
Sony DCR-HC18E, Windows XP Home, 2.4 GHz, 480Mb RAM.

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