Is the produced video working properly when you play it off your hard drive?

I had on and off problems as you describe in the past for some rather large videos. I now close the program and restart before I produce and no longer have the problem.

Just throwing that out and may not be the correct solution, but....

I produced straight to youtube, so haven't tried playing it off my hard drive. I am in the process of producing to an mp4 file, do I will try that. I suspect it will work, if it does I will try to upload the file to youtube. I am concerned about the double compression though. Any suggestions for what video settings to produce to, for uploading a file to youtube, would be appreciated!

Any other ideas, though, about how to get this working - without creating an intermediate file to upload? It is a lot easier to just have PD handle doing the upload, I'd rather be able go do it that way

Thanks,
- Dave

Hi,
If you produce to your Hard drive (external/internal) at a produced file as close to the cameras format (or one off your choosing you can preview from your system and verify the quality etc etc. When if is completed as you like then Just log-in to YouTube and upload straight form the file, also there is an option on you tube (can't remember where) that lets you upload full Hi def videos, but requires you givr your cell phone # for verification purposes once.
Jim Intel i7-2600@3.4Gz Geforce 560ti-1GB Graphic accelerator, windows 7 Premium 12GB memory

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Ok, I produced a file to my hard drive. To my surprise, it had the exact same problem. So the issue has nothing to do with Youtube after all. The video is mostly in slow motion, with lots of skips. I just realized I had the hardware compression enabled. I am going to try again with that turned off. I'll let you know if that worked.

Hi,
if your cpu is powerful enough turn all acceleration of and see what happens sometimes the acceration stuff mess things up
Jim Intel i7-2600@3.4Gz Geforce 560ti-1GB Graphic accelerator, windows 7 Premium 12GB memory

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Ok, this problem is much more insidious than I first imagined. I just realized that the original files as they're pulled off the camcorder have the issue. So the issue has nothing to do with PD after all. But if anyone can please guide me towards a solution, I'd really appreciate it! I'm realizing that importing videos don't work as I thought they did. Here's what's going on:

* If I play a clip directly on the camcorder, and view it on the LCD, it plays fine.

* However, if I import the same clip to the computer, it plays "jerky" and in slow motion. (I used "PMB" to import, which came with the camcorder).

* When I connect the camcorder to the computer, it mounts it as a removable drive. If I browse to that drive in Windows Explorer, and copy and paste a clip file to the computer, and then play the same file off the computer, I see the same issue. (The clips are ".mts" files, whatever that is...) Interestingly, when I import using PMB, the files are "m2ts" files.

* However, if I go into PD and browse to the same directory as above, and import the clip file to the computer using PD, it is MUCH better (but still kind of jerky). So somehow PD is able to play the files better.

So what is going on? I would have thought that these video files were just "files" - and it wouldn't matter how you copied them to the computer. How is it that I get different behavior, depending on which method I use to copy the files? Importing using PMB does seem to alter the files - I get "m2ts" files instead of "mts" files. But how can copy/pasting the files to the computer and then importing to PD, vs importing directly to PD from the camcorder - give me different results?

I would just go ahead and import from the camcorder to PD, but the files are still not great, just better. And I always used to import using PMB without any issues. This just started happening.

Help!

- Dave

Hi,
When the camcorder is connected to the computer via Usb your system should see it as a external drive (removable drive) just copy the videos to a location on your system, then import the files and see what happens. Some of the camera bundled software isn't the best they use thier own alogrithms and mess things up.
See what info the media is taken at with MediaInfo (free program) and when you import to PD try and get as close to the Cameras settings as possible. Make sure all your drivers up to date from the manufacturers website and I suggest downloading and installing K-lite codec pack also free and it comes in 64 and 32Bit program you can safely install both versions turn off (in preferences shadow files) that sometimes causes the jitters.
Jim Intel i7-2600@3.4Gz Geforce 560ti-1GB Graphic accelerator, windows 7 Premium 12GB memory

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Yes, that's exactly what I did, I guess it wasn't clear. But if I copy the files to my computer, they are jerky, as described, before and after import into PD. If I copy to the computer and import into PD, they are jerky. If I import directly to PD from the camcorder attached drive, they are better, but still jerky.