Hello, I come here often for advice. Anyways, I have a brand new JVC GR-D250 Mini DV camcorder. I use JVC tapes also. I record all of my sons basketball games with them so far. Less than 10 hours on the camera. Now, I use Movie Edit Pro 10 to capture and burn; also have used Nero. I use just a regular Firewire cable also. I burn with the settings at their highest setting (was told to do this). I am still having kinda bad playback when I play the DVD. Its kinda shaky in some areas and skips sometimes. There were zero dropped frames. I even went out and bought a brand new hard drive just to use to capture the video from the camcorder. I am planning on cleaning the heads (even though they do not require it yet) before I shoot the game on Saturday. Can anybody give me some advice? Are there any setting on my camcorder that I am not aware of? I am shooting footage in "Auto" and the lighting in the gym is ok...not the best. I am just very frustrated that I paid $300 for this and it is not as good as I have seen some before. I tend to think its the recording. Mainly because I captured a friends DV and burned it for him and it looked sweet. Any tips? Thanks!
look more at the media you are using I would recomend Verbitim or sony dvdr's Keep your burn speed at 4X or Less
The play exactly the same. I cleaned the heads, and will see what happens after I film later on today. I have messed around with my settings, but I think it may be the camcorder. Thanks!
How does the play back look on the camcorders screen? If thats ok, how good does the captured file look when played back on Movie Edit Pro? If it still looks ok at this point you may have a problem when burning. Before starting to burn, close all unused apps and see if this makes any difference.
The playback on the camcorder screen is always going to look crisp because it is so small and compressed. When ran directly to the TV from my camcorder it looks the same as when I burn it. I read somewhere that miniDV's are just notorious for poorer quality indoors; its the nature of the beast.
If the playback is looking a little shaky you could try a tripod. Can you borrow another camcorder and see if that produces the same quality as the JVC?
