Hi there....spend some time reading a bunch of the posts on here concerning
your problem and go check out PapaJohn's website...it is the best. The
first guy is correct, you should capture digital video with 'firewire'....if
you have a firewire port on your laptop you just need a cable, otherwise you
need a card as the salesboy said.
The guy who said you need a better program for sure doesnt know a THING
about it.
Did he happen to have a sale on Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere at the time?!!
ha ha

When you capture and use MM, understand that the preview is in low
resolution to save resources and is not indicative of the final quality.
Your DS65 is a Mini DV camcorder and will have very good resolution. When
you get your movie edited in MM; save it in DV-AVI format is you are going to
burn it to DVD. But, as I said, you will learn a lot by visiting PapaJohn's
site and also reading various subjects in the 'help' file. Good luck! Oh,
just so you know, I have a half dozen of those so-called better programs, but
use Movie Maker 2 all the time cept when I need to 'film capture' my screen
or work with gif and flash files. It may be a somewhat less powerful, but
you mainly are only limited by your own ingenuity and invention.

"Diamond Jones" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use a Panasonic DV NV DS65. When I record and playback on the camera or
> linked up to the TV the picture quality is perfect but when I use Windows
> Movie Maker to capture the video the quality of the picture is very jerky
> and pixalated.
>
> I use a Compaq Laptop with AMD Athlon 2400 chip with 500+ mb RAM.
>
> A salesboy at Camera House said I need a Firewire card. I don't think so. A
> salesman at Dick Smith Electronics said I need a better program than Movie
> Maker. I'm not confident these gys know what they're talking about.
>
> Personally, I think its because my laptop doesn't have a dedicated graphics
> card.
>
> I've tried capturing it on different screen sizes etc but it doesn't get
> much better.
>
> Anyone know the answer?
>
> Thanks
> D
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