I have a Sony DCR-TRV460 Digtial 8 camcorder. I have been getting a lot of sound noise during Video capture. Are Digital 8 camcorders known to be noisy? I can even hear what seems to be the tape playing in the background.

Are you talking about background noise or distortion? Some camcorders will pick up the noise from the video head motor. Just depends on where the microphone is mounted, etc. I have the TRV740. Haven't really noticed that much noise, but can hear a little noise when shooting something where it is fairly quite. Ideally, it is best to use an external microphone with a wind sock if needed.

I guess it would be background noise. When I have the video captured on my hard drive. I hear sounds that are undesireable during playback. Not clean at all, particularly compared to my older Chinon Video 8 camcorder. I hear sounds like it is picking up the tape heads. I was also unimpressed with added sound noise I picked up just from copying a VHS tape from recorder to Digital 8 camcorder that I downloaded to my hard drive. The video was impressive that was copied from VHS tape to Digital 8 but not the sound. I don't know if it should be this bad. thanks for input

Have you tried the noise reduction feature in Videowave?

Although, when I actually burned a DVD, I really couldn't hear the backgroud noise. But if I open my avi file, it makes all kinds of noise. I can defintely hear the heads or tape. How would I apply the noise reduction to the whole file in Videowave? thanks

Open Videowave
Add the video with the noise
Right click on the video in teh TIMELINE and select Edit Native Audio
Below the waveform is CLEAN AUDIO
The audio clean takes a short sample to 'learn' the noise. So this step is important. Click anywhere in the waveform and you will see a red line above it. This is the 'sample area'. FOR BEST results, choose a section that should be quiet and has the camera noise. Then check the clean audio and press play. You may have to move the sample area around to fine tune it.

If the OP had EMC 9 deluxe, SoundSoap would be another program to try also. I have used it on a few audio files just for expermental reasoins and found it to be quite good once you get the hang of it. But if SoundSoap is not avavilable, then editing in Videowave is the program to use as Gary pointed out.

Frank...