Hi, Im of course new to camcorders and hoped that someone could give me a quick uncomplicated answer to my problem. I have a sony trv 245 camcorder which has great picture on t.v, video recorder, lcd, but not on pc.
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD ~900 Mhz
BIOS Version A6191O1 V1.06 30012001
Total Physical Memory 255.43 MB
hard drive 40gb
nvdia tnt 64- 32mb
The picture looks like giant pixels i guess that is called pixelated with strange colours. I am new to camcorders so have not any idea. supplied software is image mixer and supplied connection is usb. I have usb 1 and not 2 could this be the problem? screen resolution is hi colour 16 bit, 800x600 as suggested by image mixer. Please help as i have been trying to find the answer for days now but im sure it must be simple. I am going to defrag hard drive next as think i read that it could help this type of prob.

Defragging your hard drive will help. However you have to bear in mind that the Sony Bundled software will only capture in MPEG 1 standard.

So if it is quality you are after, invest in a firewire card amd check out the guides to Digital Editing on this forum.

Good luck!