Cannot Start the Capture Graph Error

[jwulff@pointb.com]

Hi. I am hoping someone can help me. I am suddenly getting a Cannot Start the Capture Graph Error in Ulead 7.00.1000 when I click the capture button. I am using this with my Sony MicroMV camera and have had consistent success doing this up until this evening. There are three possible changes to my system I can think of:

1 - I changed the default location for capturing new video
2 - I deleted all the old thumbnails in the video pane
3 - I recently installed the Sony Movie Shaker software and tried a capture with it (it stunk!).

I could not find any mention of this in the ULead Support KB and Google didn't turn up anything either. Can someone help me? Thanks!!!

[Ken Berry]

Can we assume you checked to make sure you have the MV Capture Plug-in selected??

[jwulff@pointb.com]

Hi Ken,
Yes, I do have it selected. As it turns out, I ended up doing 2 cold boots and..for some unexplained reason...the second one did the trick and it started capturing video again. Oddly, however, now I am getting really jerky video and audio and I am not sure why. I am concerned that installing that MovieShaker junk might have screwed up my codecs...

[Ken Berry]

I suspect you may be right. I have only just recently acquired a Sony digital handycam which came with proprietary Sony software. But I have read so many nasty stories about it, from 'just useless', to strange frame formats, to really inimical to other video editing software, that I have never installed it. And my Sony works just fine with VS9 (though I imagine it would with 7 as well).

Mind you, Sony has a lot to answer for in introducing the MicroMV proprietary range in the first place, but I guess you don't need to hear that, eh?

The curious thing is that Sony -- well at least the Sony label -- produces some great video editing software in Vegas Video 6 when they took over Sonic. It has a cutdown version, which is called something like Vegas Movie Studio. VV6 is a high end program, but the cutdown version is more equivalent to VS9 (though I think does more video and audio tracks). And it is definitely getting some good reviews. The full cost is around US$89.95, so it is even a bit cheaper than VS9. Steeper learning curve, though...

[jwulff@pointb.com]

Thanks Ken...yes, I agree that MicroMV was not well rolled out or supported. I am feeling very abandoned by Sony on this. Last Sony product I ever buy frankly. That said, shame on me for buying the latest greatest...should have known better after watching my Dad get hosed with his Betamax!

Thanks for your help. I uninstalled MovieShaker and I am going to try and recover the codec to see if I can get this all back to normal. Ugh.