A/V connection

[bogey911]

I recently bought a PCI capture card which I am using to capture analog video to my computer. The card has an S-video output and it came with a cable that has S-video, yellow video, red and white audio, and a small black plug that I plugged back into the audio input on my computer.

I connected the s-video cable to the card and then used another s-video cable to connect to the camcorder.

The a/v cable that came with the camcorder has the one small plug that goes into the a/v in on the camcorder and the other end of the cable has the yellow video, red and white audio connections on it.

I'm confused on how to connect so the audio is the best. The way that I connected so far is to connect the yellow video cable and red audio to the short cable that came with the capture card. This is connected to the a/v/ out on the camcorder. When I try capture the video, the sound keeps jumping back and forth between the two speakers on my pc. Will the sound on the video play back like this on the VCD or is that just my pc doing it?

I know the s-video only transfers video but if I take out the cable from the a/v on the camcorder, I loose my picture.

Please help. Sorry if this is confusing.

[Prew]

Not sure- but before you burn a VCD you can play the video back by doubleclicking the file and then see of the sound is ok.

Also, does the software that came with the camcorder have any audio setting selections that might address this? (such as type of audio input).

[tomster2300]

No way you could use DV, could you? It'd be a lot faster and better quality than analog. I guess you can't if your capture card supports AV -- it's usually one or the other. Do you have a firewire card in your pc? That's all you'd need. Plus you'd have to have a camera which supports firewire...