Capturing from Sony 8 mm camcorder playing back an old 8mm

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:11 pm

I tried using my camcorder to save my old 8mm and Hi8 tapes to my pc and thence onto dvd. I am using capture on my VS12. However, after about 5 sec the process aborts with the message that the file is corrupted and will be deleted. I tried Windows Movie Maker

and it captures with no problems! Any suggestions dear friends? The editor I used before switching to VS never had this problem

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:38 pm

Any suggestions dear friends?

Capture with Movie Maker, and edit with Video Studio?

I know it's a pain, but many of us use several different audio/video "tools". I typically use one program for capture, another for editing, and another for DVD authoring. Sometimes, I'll use a 4th program for DVD burning! I have other utilities for converting "problem" formats, etc.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:17 am

Yes, X2 and X3 have issues capturing from analog. Since MovieMaker works I would use that to capture, then import into VS for editing.

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:29 am

Thank you.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:44 am

In fact the problem started with VS 11 when Corel in their wisdom replaced the various tried and trusted capture modules/codecs it used in previous versions, and replaced it with one module: the InterVideo Capture Module (IVI). That would not work when capturing via firewire from an analogue source. We have been complaining ever since to Corel, to no avail.

Personally, I use a small freeware program called WinDV which does an excellent job...

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:29 pm

Thank you for that, Ken. I suppose that Corel feels that the market for importing analog is too small to worry about. Can you see any reason why I should not use WMM tc capture?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:47 pm

No reason not to as it's free. But does it split-by-scene on capture? Not sure that it does, and I like lots of small, real files to edit, which WinDV gives me...

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:00 pm

No, with WMM you can only split into segments after capture. Actually I usually do that, and discard as I proceed.

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:02 am

PS Are there different versions of WinDv out there? The one that I dowloaded does not provide any features besides capture and record.

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:58 am

WinDV is just a transfer utility designed specifically for DV (avi) through firewire. No frills, bells or whistles, just transferring your DV video onto your PC or back.

I use it quite a lot myself. I just finished up transferring about 8 hrs of video, from old Hi-8mm and VHS.

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:52 am

Thanks Ron. As you can see above, Ken says that it does scene splitting.

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:08 am

Splitting by File Size, you need to set the Max file size to something below the maximum, and when it is reached, it starts a new file.

Splitting by Scene, you need to set the Discontinuity Threshold to a low setting.

Go to the webpage, scroll down to the image, and mouse over parts of it. It is an interactive image, aka GIF file. Tooltips will pop up telling how to use the program.

http://windv.mourek.cz/

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:25 pm

Thanks Ron.

Nicholas Rumin · Post by **Nicholas Rumin** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:53 am

I have been trying to use WinDV but the discontinuity threshold function seems not to work. I have tried several thresholds >1. Also there is the question of what type of capture I want; type1 or type2. After hunting on the web I am still not clear on which to use. Can you offer any suggestions?