MF 7 & Windows 7 - DVD Importing

[Nunners]

I've just bought Movie Factory 7 to create some nice home videos as present for Christmas.... thinking great I can do it on my all new Windows 7 machine - not actually to think is it going to work on Windows 7.

I'm trying to import video from a DVD -RW created on a Sony Handycam video camera... only problem is, whilst displaying that there are videos on there, it keeps saying that there is "No Valid Clip"...

Is this Windows 7? Software or hardware problem? Or what really!!!

Any help gratefully received...

Cheers
Nunners

[DVDDoug]

Did you remember to "finalize" the DVD (with the DVD in your camera)?

Are you sure there is video on the DVD? Does it play on your DVD player and/or on your computer with your DVD-player software?

Try copying the files from the DVD to your hard drive. If you can't do that, the disc is unreadable or flaky.

There is a FREE program you can try called VOB 2 MPG. It converts the VOB files from a DVD to MPEG-2 files. If that works, you can import those MPEG-2 files into Movie Factory for editing and DVD authoring/burning.

I've just bought Movie Factory 7 to create some nice home videos as present for Christmas....

If you don't already have the software installed and already know how to use it with your particular camera, this stuff can be very tricky... You should have started in October!

[Nunners]

Thanks for the last comment... yes I should have done this back in October, but time and time....

I've got a little further though - I tried doing it all on a Win XP Pro laptop, and experienced the same problems. So then tried, as you said, copying all the info across to the hard-drive - only to get an error on the larger video that I'm trying to copy - it's only 10 mins long, but is my daughter in her nativity play, so really do need to resurrect it!

I have watched through the video, and it was all fine, so guessing it is a problem copying the disc for some reason. I'm going to try ripping the DVD across to a new disc, and see if that works....

Fingers crossed...

[Nunners]

I'm now getting a little further with this. It would seem that the Disc is corrupt - or at least that's what windows thinks... really odd... unfinalised and refinalised the DVD again, but still no luck (thought that might fix it somehow???!!!)...

Anyone any thoughts?

[Nunners]

Finally resolved. I've had to zip the DVD files across to the harddrive, then unzip... why I don't know but found a hint online, and tried it....