Hello,

I just purchased a Canon ZR300 DV Camcorder. The video quality looks
just fine on the LCD display, but I'm having a hard time capturing
video. Whenever I capture video as "DV AVI" it is all washed out.
This is true in several capture applications (WMM, Premiere Elements,
and WinDVD Creator). One of my programs will save as MPEG instead
(WinDVD Creator) and the video looks fine.

I am connecting to the computer via the built in IEEE1394 port. This
is an AMD64 3200+ with 1GB of RAM. The OS is Windows XP SP2.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Dean

First thing to try is a different firewire cable.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies, Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows


<landryd@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I just purchased a Canon ZR300 DV Camcorder. The video quality looks
> just fine on the LCD display, but I'm having a hard time capturing
> video. Whenever I capture video as "DV AVI" it is all washed out.
> This is true in several capture applications (WMM, Premiere Elements,
> and WinDVD Creator). One of my programs will save as MPEG instead
> (WinDVD Creator) and the video looks fine.
>
> I am connecting to the computer via the built in IEEE1394 port. This
> is an AMD64 3200+ with 1GB of RAM. The OS is Windows XP SP2.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas!
>
> Dean
>

So it turns out, MPEG files I'm downloading from the net are washed out
in the same way if I play them in WMP or VideoLan player. Yet they
look fine in Quicktime. All this happed after I installed the Canon
software. Could it be that Quicktime did something to my codecs?

Hmmm, which Canon software?
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies, Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows


<landryd@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> So it turns out, MPEG files I'm downloading from the net are washed out
> in the same way if I play them in WMP or VideoLan player. Yet they
> look fine in Quicktime. All this happed after I installed the Canon
> software. Could it be that Quicktime did something to my codecs?
>