Xferred from VHS to jerky video

I have used my ADVC 100 digital video converter many times in the past to transfer VHS tapes to my hard drive and eventually to DVDs. Hadn't done it in months until yesterday when I tried it and discovered that as the tapes were being recorded onto my hard drive they looked fine on the monitor, but when I played them back in iMovie HD 6 the audio was fine, but the video was herky-jerky.
I've read other posts on this board suggesting the culprit is QuickTime 7.5 and/or its plug-ins. I actually don't have any plug-ins for it. I tried removing the one .converter file and then restoring it, but that didn't do anything. I suspect that all my successful recordings in the past were before I upgraded this particular PowerBook G4 to Leopard and goodness-knows-what-else.
So I'm wondering if upgrading to iMovie 08 would cure this.
Any thoughts?

Are you sure you have no plug-ins? I had a similar problem last year and my son-in-law fiddled about with things - Perian, Flip4 mac etc. So the previous thread may be of use.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1662473&tstart=0

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Quote from: peterisnow on 13-June-06, 23:25:23
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Okay Patrick, here's the latest in my jerky video saga...
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I don't have much experience with this stuff but, it all seems to point in that direction to me.
I'm not an idiot am I? The XServe is meant to be used for this sort of thing, right? I hope we didn't just buy the wrong thing alltogether as well, that would suck just a bit! :/
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