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[henrybb]

I also encountered this problem and when I read through this forum, I found many people have met the similiar problem. This is very annoying because windows movie maker can only save the video as avi and the file size is 4 or 5 times bigger than the mpeg-2 used by EMC 9.0. And you need to pay additional to get a software for converting avi to mpeg-2.

The problem I got is similiar to most of others. I got the correct driver for 1394 in windows and I also tried the hot fix for XP sp2. But it doesn't work at all. Windows movie make can capture the video without any problem and so does sonic DVD 5.0 I have. The problem is sonic DVD 5.0 can only save file in mpeg format. So I think the problem is at roxio side.

I was so disappointed until suddenly roxio worked once. I even don't know how. Then after several experiments. I found that when roxio change into video capture mode, it automatically turn the DV into pause state most of the times while windows movie maker doesn't do anything to the DV initially. If this happens, I will get the two buttons greyed out most of the time. But if I tried to stop the play using DV, then doing fast forward or rewind, then change roxio from video capture to audio capture and then change back, sometimes it works. And very rare, roxio will not initialize the DV in pause mode, then the two buttons will work for sure. Now I can have about 30% chance of success if I did those tricks. I highly suspect this is the problem most of the people are having now. Roxio should not initialize the DV in that mode because if you do that trick, it is just like you are pressing play/pause repeatedly and Idon't like this at all. I am worried that this may broke my DV. And it looks like roxia will try repeatedly to initialize the DV into pause state if you press the stop button from DV side at the same time. Very annoying.

So my conclusion is the problem lies in the initialization of roxio capture.  Does anybody have any idea how to prevent roxio from doing that?  Thanks for sharing.

[ggrussell]

Several people with Canon camcorder have posted with this problem.  I have a Sony 8mm digital camcorder and have never encountered any problems capturing (except for the know bug of capturing 16:9 to MPEG 2).

Most software I have used will initialize the DV starting with 'pause'.

[henrybb]

Yes. Sometimes roxio will work even if the DV is initialized into 'pause'. But I still believe the problem is in the initialization stage. I hope I can find ways to disable this. Maybe I should turn to Nero for video capture.

Several people with Canon camcorder have posted with this problem.  I have a Sony 8mm digital camcorder and have never encountered any problems capturing (except for the know bug of capturing 16:9 to MPEG 2).

Most software I have used will initialize the DV starting with 'pause'.