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I have a Canon Optura 50, I have a firewire cable, and I use Windows Movie Maker.

When I record from camcorder to my computer there seems to be a slight delay in recording. For some reaso it looks like it skips a second or two once in a while. I don't know how to fix this. Ultimately I would like to record to my computer and then make a DVD out of it. What's the best resolution and recording to use? There are a lot of options on the resolution to record, but I'm not sure what to pick. One of them says "if you want to save, edit and watch on your computer choose this one". However this one saves it into a really small resolution. I then picked the option "if you would like to make edits on your computer and then record back onto tape choose this one." This one is (DV-NTSC – AVI) something like that. With so many to choose from I'm lost. Ultimately I would like to have something that doesn't skip. I'm not sure why it's "jerky" and looks like it's having seizures.

If you want to author a DVD from the footage, you should save either as DV-AVI or the highest resolution WMV. Go to Save Movie, choose the My Computer option, and on the Movie Setting tab click the Show more choices link. Click Other Settings and choose either High Quality Video (NTSC) or DV-AVI.

Your computer may not play either of these back smoothly on your computer screen because your video card may not be up to playing back high quality video. But burning a file from either of those two settings to DVD will result in a DVD that should look great.