Ready to Cry...Can this Video be saved?

Melody Anne

Melody Anne

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Okay, near tears over her. I have a Logitech 920 webcam, which I rarely use because it always does something freaky.

Yesterday I downloaded all new drivers and ran a bunch of tests and it was all good. Audio and video were reasonably synced. So last night I recorded a bunch of stuff. About 1.5 hours of footage.

Today I sat down to edit and it is totally frozen. The video starts to play and I can hear the audio. Then the video just freezes while the audio stutters. Then the whole thing goes silent and the video begins to advance in jumps while the audio cuts in and out. The whole thing is completely out of sync and it's a big mess.

I have a Dell Inspiron and I recorded it through the Dell Webcam Central capture program, but it was capturing through the Logitech camera, not the dell camera (which works just great by the way).

I use Microsoft Movie usually and I also pulled it into Videopad from NCH. Do you think it I had a more feature rich program like Vegas that it might be able to pull the audio and video together??

Thank you in advance. I'm going to run around the house trying to get it to play on any other computer or device while I sob uncontrollably now :-(
 
It could just be lagging. Maybe your computer can't play the video back, and that is why your getting the choppy video and sound.
 
Your video footage itself is likely fine, I've had the same problem in windows movie maker. I have about 2 gigs of ram and had this problem the first time I tried to edit a video. Make sure that your computer has all its windows updates. Mine worked beautifully after I did all my updates. However, 1.5 hours of footage is a LOT of video! I usually edit 15 minutes at a time at max. Is it all in one clip or multiple clips? Have you tried making smaller videos first and then stringing them together? Even when I am editing 15 minutes of footage, I have to stop every so often to let the computer catch up because some of my clips will just be black with audio.
 
yup, it's HD. It's a bunch of clips ranging from 5 mins to 20 mins. I have 4 gigs of ram, so I didn't think it would be a problem. I'm going to see if I'm behind on any windows updates and try again. I pulled it into the trial version of Vegas and it's still messed up. I guess we will have to re-record, but you lose that magic when you do that :-(
 
Melody Anne said:
yup, it's HD. It's a bunch of clips ranging from 5 mins to 20 mins. I have 4 gigs of ram, so I didn't think it would be a problem. I'm going to see if I'm behind on any windows updates and try again. I pulled it into the trial version of Vegas and it's still messed up. I guess we will have to re-record, but you lose that magic when you do that :-(
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So is the footage already messed up when you just watch it on your computer, or only when you put it into a video editor?
 
Melody Anne said:
yup, it's HD. It's a bunch of clips ranging from 5 mins to 20 mins. I have 4 gigs of ram, so I didn't think it would be a problem. I'm going to see if I'm behind on any windows updates and try again. I pulled it into the trial version of Vegas and it's still messed up. I guess we will have to re-record, but you lose that magic when you do that :-(
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Why format is the footage? Certain HD footage formats are harder to playback than others.
 
Thanks or the advice. Turns out that my dell webcam central was acting as the primary program. I had to disable that and then rerecord directly from the Logitech program and it plays perfectly. I did lose everything I recorded last night, but I don't have to smash a $100 camera to bits :)
 
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