DV export help needed

[danielad]

I'm new here so please excuse me if this topic has already been discussed. I use Video Studio 8 and a Sony 620 Digital 8 camcorder in PAL mode. Here is the problem: when I try to record an edited clip to the camcorder, it will record about 1 second and then keep on recording the same image. What am I doing wrong

Thanks

Danny

[BrianCee]

Well one of the things your doing wrong Dannyis not telling us what you did or what system you are using, you have not told us how you connected the camera to your PC or what you did in VideoStudio to attempt to do the export - or what exactly you were trying to export.

Could we have a little bit more information please.

[danielad]

Sorry, here is some more info:

HP computer
Pentium 4, 2.66 MHz
256 Mb memory
Video: Intel 82865G
Camcorder to computer connection: firewire

I captured a clip to the computer, edited it and tried to re-record it to the camcorder. I chose Share, Export, DV recording.

As I mentioned in my original post, the process started but got stuck after about 1 second and the camcorder kept recording the same frame while Video Studio seemingly kept encoding.

[danielad]

And one more thing: I run Win2000

[maddrummer3301]

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[Ken Berry]

Another possibility is that, as you are in a PAL country, if it is in Europe there is the strong possibility that your camera has had its DV-in disabled. A lot of digital video cameras in Europe have this for tax reasons -- for some reason, European countries impose a much higher sales tax on cameras which can receive a digital signal back to them, as opposed to those that can simply send a digital signal out to a computer.

It could also be a Win2000 thing, but I don't really know anything about that OS, so cannot say. I *do* know that when I was using Win ME a few years ago and using VS7 and then 8 with it and my Canon mini DV camera (which I still have), I also had enormous difficulty exporting back finished, edited DV to the camera for archiving (yet it worked perfectly well for some reason with an ancient copy of Video Wave III which I happened to have at the time). In the end my search for a solution was overtaken by a change to XP, and I have not had the problem since.

You might also want to check in your camera's menu what setting your have for your A/V to DV -- if it is set to OUT, it might be overriding the possibility of the camera accepting a DV signal IN. I also have a Sony Digital 8 (DCR-TRV480E PAL). This setting of course normally relates to using the camera as a pass through to send a signal from an analogue source such as a VCR through the camera as a DV signal over Firewire to your computer. But while that setting is on OUT, it overrides some other features of my model, at least...