Sony DCR IP1E Micro DV camera

John Oliver · Post by **John Oliver** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:52 pm

I am new to video editing. I have a Sony DCR IP1E Micro DV camera with lots of recorded tapes and am looking for video editing software. A friend, who has the same camera and version 8 of VideoStudio, says that V8 will capture and edit the footage.

Can anyone confirm that that Version 10 will work with my camera before I part with my cash?

Thanks in advance.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:02 pm

I have altered the title of your post to something more meaningful than simply VideoStudio 10 (Not very descriptive is it!)

Hopefully someone with this camcorder will now spot this post and submit a response.
While your waiting why not try downloading the 30 day free trial and see if it works.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:22 pm

In fact, I think your camera is more correctly called a Micro MV (not DV). It was a proprietary Sony system which never became popular and was soon discontinued and no longer supported by Sony itself. VS8 (and 7 IIRC) did indeed have a special MICROMV capture plug-in which worked with it. But I well recall that a lot of people nontheless had a lot of trouble with their video. That seems to have been the reason Sony discontinued support so quickly for it. So don't expect miracles...

VS9 also contains the capture plug-in but I don't know how it worked with the camera -- in fact I dont recall any posts on the Micro MV on this Board over the past two years or so. VS9 was a much better program than VS8, which was problematic on other levels in a variety of ways. VS 10 no longer contains the plug-in.

John Oliver · Post by **John Oliver** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:32 pm

Ken,

Happy New Year

Thanks for the advice. Sounds like I should simply use a digitizer so I can edit with a more stable programme. Or maybe change the camera! I only bought it 'cos it's so small, it fits neatly into a pocket.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:58 pm

It's not that VS is an 'unstable' program, it's the camera's format which is unstable or difficult -- which is well illustrated by the fact that Sony itself decided to drop it and no longer support it even for its own customers who bought it!

And of course there are a variety of other cameras using the far more stable mini DV format on the market these days which are just as small...