John, Since your computer captures and plays back movies from Windows movie maker just fine, that tells me that the issue is likely not centered around performance issues with your hard drive or CPU.
So, this leads me to the question, "What project preset did you choose when creating your new project?" If you could post your project settings, that would be very helpful. It sounds an awfully lot like the project settings don't match the settings of the source video. The stuttering playback you describe is a good indication of this. Also, what are your capture settings? I believe you can find all of this information in the Project > Settings Viewer, option. (It may be labeled slightly different, it's been awhile since I've taught 6.5.) To answer your questions-- the camera model you choose in Premiere 6.5 will not affect playback of the video. That information only deals with how Premiere "talks with" your video camera. (How it tells it to rewind, fast forward, pause, etc.) The actual video that is captured is no different no matter what camera setting you choose. Regarding your question about DVD-- As Johnny pointed out, this would be a poor workflow choice. You're talking about mutliple compression steps, hours of work, and Premiere 6.5 really, really hates editing these types of files. (It'll do it, but it'll do it kicking and screaming.) Your best bet is to fix the issue so you can capture directly from your camera. ----- Original Message ----- I am working with a Sony Digital 8 TRV 140 NTSC camera. The computer is HP Media center Pentium D, 250 gig Hard Drive. RAM is 1 gig. I am able to capture into AP 6.5, except it doesn't show in the monitor screen. When I capture from a DVD player using Canopus ADVC 110, it always shows in the monitor screen, but not with the Sony Camera. With the Sony Camera after capture, I bring the clip into the timeline, but then when I play it, It goes from still picture to still picture with a lot of dropped frames inbetween. It's like a slide show instead of a movie. However, the sound track is intact, and there is no problem with the sound. Does anyone have a solution to getting AP 6.5 to capture this as a movie instead of a series of slides. I have no problems whatsoever using Windows Movie Maker to capture video from the sony TRV 140. What I am thinking of doing is capturing the video into Windows Movie Maker, and then burn it to a DVD. Then switch over to AP 6.5 and open up the video footage from the DVD into Adobe Premiere where I can do a lot more video editing than I could ever possible do in Windows Movie Maker. I haven't tried this yet, I am hoping someone else has a solution so I can just work in AP. By the way, Adobe Premiere does not list Sony TRV 140 in the selection of sources to choose from, so I chose the next closest thing: Sony TRV 130. Could that be my problem? Is that why the video capture is in still frames instead of flowing video. If so, why is Windows Movie Maker better at capture than Adobe Premiere.....I mean this is PREMIERE isn't it? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
