so I record video clips through my camera on tapes and it looks great when I view it through my camera. Then I try to get it on my computer by using the USB cord they gave me and to view the clips which I recorded I had to download this program called Samsung DVC Media 5.1. I do just that but when I view my clip in Samsung DVC Media the clip which once looked very nice clean and smooth now is choppy, slow, and in bad quality. Any suggestions how I can extract the clip from my tapes and get the good quality?
Don't use USB to capture the video but a Firewire connection. See section 2 of this article: http://www.digitalvideoclub.com/basics/transfer.php