Hello:
I am trying to capture some video from a Sony Digital 8 camcorder.
I can see the video in the preview screen, but when I try to play the clip back, the preview screen turns black. The audio is playing though.
I am tyring to capture to DVD
I have an ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card.
Running Windows XP w/ service pack 2
2 GB of memory
300 GB Hard drive for videos
3200 AMD 64 processor
Firewire PCI card installed.
I have used this camcorder on a different machine running version 7 and did not have any problems. However, I don't think my old machine had an ATI card.
Thanks for any insight you can give me.
Problem viewing preview in Videostudio 10
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With a Digital 8, you should be capturing via the camera's Firewire connection, and preferably in DV/AVI format rather than DVD format as you are. (I know whereof I speak because I have a Sony Digital 8 TRV-480.) Can you confirm that you are using Firewire? And what happens if you try to capture DV format?
Although your computer looks as though it might have the resources to capture direct to DVD-compatible mpeg-2, this is an incredibly resource intensive process for any computer. Your camera is sending a digital DV signal to the computer, but you are asking Video Studio to convert that signal to mpeg-2 on the fly. Some simply cannot manage it; others can capture short amounts, then pause to wait while the transcode buffer, which has filled with incoming signal from the camera, has to be processed and emptied.
That is really why we suggest you capture to DV format, do your editing in that format (to maintain quality) and only after editing is complete, convert it to DVD-compliant mpeg-2. You don't waste all that much time doing it this way, and you probably also won't have the time-wasting headaches you have encountered doing it your way!
Although your computer looks as though it might have the resources to capture direct to DVD-compatible mpeg-2, this is an incredibly resource intensive process for any computer. Your camera is sending a digital DV signal to the computer, but you are asking Video Studio to convert that signal to mpeg-2 on the fly. Some simply cannot manage it; others can capture short amounts, then pause to wait while the transcode buffer, which has filled with incoming signal from the camera, has to be processed and emptied.
That is really why we suggest you capture to DV format, do your editing in that format (to maintain quality) and only after editing is complete, convert it to DVD-compliant mpeg-2. You don't waste all that much time doing it this way, and you probably also won't have the time-wasting headaches you have encountered doing it your way!
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