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Using the share option of HDV Recording, which says I can record my clip back to the HDV camcorder, I am asked to choose 1080 50 or 1080 60. Which ever one I choose I am asked to choose a file location on the hard drive and then it renders my clip. Then an error message comes up "File format mismatch". I am using VS10+ and the camcorder (Sony HC5) is connected via ilink cable. The display on the camcorder says HDV IN. What am I doing wrong here? Many thanks.

That's curious. I have a Canon HV-20, and VS10+ (with the Canon patch for that version) is the only way I actually succeed in exporting edited HDV back to the camera. Both VS 11 and 12 refuse to do it at the same spot you have identified. Yet as far as VS10+ was concerned, no one else had reported any errors in exporting apart from Canon owners -- hence the patch.

The file which VS prepares in that process is (or should be) a transport stream mpeg-2 which is what the camera actually produces in the first place. VS only normally works with program stream. So given the wording of your error message, I am wondering if for some reason you are getting a program stream file. But that being said, I have no idea how to change it. And I would have thought that the export process is automatically geared to convert input to transport stream.

After you did your editing, did you first convert your project to a new file (Share > Create Video File > HDV)? Or did you go from the project straight to the export to camera routine?

Are you using VS10+ under Vista (with the Vista patch applied?) or XP?

Thanks Ken, Canbera must be beautiful in Autumn right now. I have Xp pro and I did do the HDV stuff from the project timeline. I will try and do an HDV file and try again.

I tried an MPEG-2 exported file of the project and got the same error message. Would the cannon patch work for a Sony, and also, which one do I choose, 1080 50 or 1080 60? hanks

Well I am stumped! Installing the Canon patch would certainly not hard anything. But as I said, it was brought out especially for Canon cameras since they were the only ones for which the export feature in VS10+ would not work! Sony owners at the time reported no problems...

As for 50 or 60, if your original video is PAL as it probably is, coming from Sydney and all, then you would use 50 (non-interlaced = PAL's 25fps x2).

The only other thing I can think of would be to download a trial version of X2 and see if it works in that. (It will not with a Canon, so evidently they did not include the VS10 Canon patch in either VS 11 or 12 since VS11 will also not export to Canons -- which is why I reinstalled VS10+ in the first place!!!)

Thanks Ken. I downloaded the Canon patch and it did nothing. I also tried to download the new VS Pro, but when I opened it it said there were 0 days left to try the product - how can I try it if will not let me?