VS 9 will not, I think it may be because it connects with USB rather than a firewire. It's a huge PAIN to finalize the disk, then import it to VS.
Thanks!
Sony DCR-DVD201 & VS 10
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Redlabel
Sony DCR-DVD201 & VS 10
Does anyone kow if the new VS 10 will recognize a Sony DCR-DVD201 as a capture device? VS 9 will not, I think it may be because it connects with USB rather than a firewire.
It's a huge PAIN to finalize the disk, then import it to VS.
Thanks!
VS 9 will not, I think it may be because it connects with USB rather than a firewire. It's a huge PAIN to finalize the disk, then import it to VS.
Thanks!
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Hi redlabel and welcome to the board.
Ok, the 201 will not be recognised as a "capture device".....ever! Thats because the 201 is a DVD cam and as such there is no "capture" process involved at any point. Capture refers specifically to the transfer of Mini DV tape data from cam to computer. Yours is DVD so...no capture. All you are doing is copying MPEG2 files (cleverly hidden as vob files) from the disc to the hard drive.
Now, how you go about that is controlled mainly by Sony!....so we know we are in trouble already!
When you connect using the USB provided by Sony you will notice that your cam is detected by Windows as a "USB Mass Storage device." Because of that Ulead has no way of getting to the DVD in the cam, in fact the ONLY way of getting to it is by using the proprietary software that Sony included with the cam...Image Mixer. So you can transfer the MPEGs from the unfinalised disc using Image Mixer OR you can "Import DVD/VR" using VS but ONLY if you have finalised the disc and placed it in the DVD tray of the computer.
This is not a VS problem as such, it is actually a Sony problem regarding the way the cam has been designed to be recognised by Windows and what it is recognised as. If Sony (and I think also a lot of the other DVD cam manufacturers) had designed it to be detected as an external optical drive then life would be so much easier and maybe I would still have my 201 instead of the mini DV cam I now have!
Ok, the 201 will not be recognised as a "capture device".....ever! Thats because the 201 is a DVD cam and as such there is no "capture" process involved at any point. Capture refers specifically to the transfer of Mini DV tape data from cam to computer. Yours is DVD so...no capture. All you are doing is copying MPEG2 files (cleverly hidden as vob files) from the disc to the hard drive.
Now, how you go about that is controlled mainly by Sony!....so we know we are in trouble already!
When you connect using the USB provided by Sony you will notice that your cam is detected by Windows as a "USB Mass Storage device." Because of that Ulead has no way of getting to the DVD in the cam, in fact the ONLY way of getting to it is by using the proprietary software that Sony included with the cam...Image Mixer. So you can transfer the MPEGs from the unfinalised disc using Image Mixer OR you can "Import DVD/VR" using VS but ONLY if you have finalised the disc and placed it in the DVD tray of the computer.
This is not a VS problem as such, it is actually a Sony problem regarding the way the cam has been designed to be recognised by Windows and what it is recognised as. If Sony (and I think also a lot of the other DVD cam manufacturers) had designed it to be detected as an external optical drive then life would be so much easier and maybe I would still have my 201 instead of the mini DV cam I now have!
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Redlabel
..Image Mixer is very poor software, that's why I switched to VS. I too have considered switching to a miniDV cam, now if I could only convince the better half it would be worth it! 