Capturing from VHS

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:05 pm

Hi
I have connected the video output from a VHS player to a mini DV camcorder with a pass thru facility (converts the analogue signal to digital DV signal) and then from the DV out of the camcorder to the firewire input of the capture card of the PC. When I use the moviefactory 7 to capture the relevant video I can not see the actual video on the display screen of the moviefactory. I can hear the sound though. All the relevant connections are OK because when I use the Windows Movie Maker program it works and it captures OK. Any idea what the problem might be. I tried it with VideoStudio X2 and I have the same problem, black screen.

Stelios

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:58 pm

A-D (analog-digital) pass-through conversion is not allowed in DVDMF 7 or VS Pro. This is due to the IVI capture plug-in used by Corel. It was developed by Intervideo, replacing the earlier Direct-Show for Windows, that was used by Ulead in versions up to DVDMF 5 and VS10. Corel did issue a patch for VS 11, and I think DVDMF6, however they did not carry this through to the next versions.

Since you are transferring your video using firewire, I recommend trying the free utility called WinDV. It allows transferring via Firewire only, but will allow you to get your videos onto your computer. Once you have it on your PC you can insert them into DVDMF 7 and/or VS Pro. Ken and I both use it..

WinDV

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:29 pm

Thanks Ron for the prompt reply. What a relief. I though that I was doing something wrong. In any case I did what you and Ken do but I used Windows Movie maker.

Stelios

P.S. A pity though that Corel dropped this feature.