[Gramma Pat]

I am a Gramma trying to transfer movies from my Sony Handycam with mini DV to this new Roxio 9 Suite. It won't recognize my camera. I have it connected with a USB, can anyone help me???? I'm so frustrated I want to tear the darned thing up!
Thanks.

[grandpabruce]

I am a Gramma trying to transfer movies from my Sony Handycam with mini DV to this new Roxio 9 Suite. It won't recognize my camera. I have it connected with a USB, can anyone help me???? I'm so frustrated I want to tear the darned thing up!
Thanks.

You need to capture via a firewire cable, connected to your HandiCam and the computer. Sony calls it an iLink cable (?). When you get a firewire cable, don't get a cheap one. I got a Belkin cable, and it was about $37, and I have captured a ton of videos of my grandkids, using that cable..

The cable that came with your HandiCam is for downloading photos from your HandiCam.

[rgfitz]

I am a Gramma trying to transfer movies from my Sony Handycam with mini DV to this new Roxio 9 Suite. It won't recognize my camera. I have it connected with a USB, can anyone help me???? I'm so frustrated I want to tear the darned thing up!
Thanks.

I had the same problem with my new Panasonic PV-GS320. I just use the USB cable and Microsoft Moviemaker to make the .avi file. I was using Sonic Record Now! and MyDVD to make the DVD movie.

Unfortunately I removed Sonic Record Now! and MyDVd when I installed Roxio Creator. Now I can't find my installation CD.

I am trying to get the DVD made with this Not-Easy Media Creator 9. The DVD will play on one of my DVD/TVs but not my son's or my other one. The problem seems to be the menu and I am trying to figure out how to make a DVD without a menu. The last thing I need is a fancy program with lots of stuff I never use.

[sknis]

I had the same problem with my new Panasonic PV-GS320. I just use the USB cable and Microsoft Moviemaker to make the .avi file. I was using Sonic Record Now! and MyDVD to make the DVD movie.

Unfortunately I removed Sonic Record Now! and MyDVd when I installed Roxio Creator. Now I can't find my installation CD.

I am trying to get the DVD made with this Not-Easy Media Creator 9. The DVD will play on one of my DVD/TVs but not my son's or my other one. The problem seems to be the menu and I am trying to figure out how to make a DVD without a menu. The last thing I need is a fancy program with lots of stuff I never use.

Thanks for your suggestion re: capturing. That is one way of doing it. There are others.

As you your menu issue - when you start MyDVD, go to the top menu and select file> new project and select DVD, no menus.

I doubt that the issue is the menu. but perhaps the DVD blank you started with. Some newer and better quality players choke on home made DVDs. Some like +R and others like -R. For more universal playability use better quality blanks. Memorex and store brands have been known to cause issues. In MyDVD when you go to burn, burn to an ISO file and uncheck the other options. Name and set the location for the ISO file, When the project finishes encoding, copy the ISO file to a disc using Disc Copier. Doing this two step process doesn't take much longer but it does separate the encoding from the burning so your computer only does one thing at a time.

[rgfitz]

Thanks for your suggestion re: capturing. That is one way of doing it. There are others.

As you your menu issue - when you start MyDVD, go to the top menu and select file> new project and select DVD, no menus.

I doubt that the issue is the menu. but perhaps the DVD blank you started with. Some newer and better quality players choke on home made DVDs. Some like +R and others like -R. For more universal playability use better quality blanks. Memorex and store brands have been known to cause issues. In MyDVD when you go to burn, burn to an ISO file and uncheck the other options. Name and set the location for the ISO file, When the project finishes encoding, copy the ISO file to a disc using Disc Copier. Doing this two step process doesn't take much longer but it does separate the encoding from the burning so your computer only does one thing at a time.

All of the DVDs, probably 20 or so, made with Sonic Record Now! and MyDVd worked fine on all of our players.

[sknis]

All of the DVDs, probably 20 or so, made with Sonic Record Now! and MyDVd worked fine on all of our players.

All things change; not all for the better.

[rgfitz]

All things change; not all for the better.

I took my .avi file into Not-Easy Roxio Creator, "burned" an *.iso file, and used DVDDecrypter to create the DVD. The resulting DVD is identical to the ones created with Not-Easy Roxio...Menu and all.

I don't know how the menu got associated with the .avi file.

I found a Dell restore CD for my Record Now! for less than $5 total on ebay including s&h and will just wait until it arrives before wasting more DVD blank discs.

[ggrussell]

I had the same problem with my new Panasonic PV-GS320. I just use the USB cable

The USB port is normally used to connect a camcorder as a 'webcam' or to transfer still images. If you are using that to capture, you aren't getting the maximum quality from your camcorder. Teh Panasonic GS320 is a miniDV tape camcorder and you should be using firewire cable which you must purchase. Firewire will give you full DV quality captures.

[rgfitz]

The USB port is normally used to connect a camcorder as a 'webcam' or to transfer still images. If you are using that to capture, you aren't getting the maximum quality from your camcorder. Teh Panasonic GS320 is a miniDV tape camcorder and you should be using firewire cable which you must purchase. Firewire will give you full DV quality captures.

That seems to be the consensus on the internet but my computer has no firewire port and the USB port works fine as far as I can tell.

[james_hardin]

That seems to be the consensus on the internet but my computer has no firewire port and the USB port works fine as far as I can tell.

You are misleading this discussion and that is not helping anyone!

I another thread you state you have a DVC-90 and that is what you are capturing with.

While the DVC-90 may connect to your PC via a USB cable capture is done through the hardware of the DVC-90, not the USB!

Big Difference!!!

Last Firewire card I bought for a desktop cost $20. Well worth it for the speed/quality.

This post has been edited by james_hardin: 03 October 2007 - 10:01 AM

[ggrussell]

Perhaps we can help if rgfitz will clarify HOW the capture is done:
Directly from camcorder to PC via USB
or
Through the DVC90 via USB

As James points out there is a HUGE difference between the two. If your computer doesn't have firewire, I would still recommend buying a PCI firewire card and installing it. That would still give you better results than capturing through the DVC90.

[rgfitz]

Perhaps we can help if rgfitz will clarify HOW the capture is done:
Directly from camcorder to PC via USB
or
Through the DVC90 via USB

As James points out there is a HUGE difference between the two. If your computer doesn't have firewire, I would still recommend buying a PCI firewire card and installing it. That would still give you better results than capturing through the DVC90.

I will be happy to reply but this is my last post in this user's group.

With my new Panasonic camcorder, I use Windows Movie Maker and the USB cable that came with my camcorder (after installing the USB driver that came with my camcorder software).

The resulting *.avi files are used to create a DVD using Sonic MyDVD version 5 that I managed to recover from an image file backup after my poor results with EMC 9. The images on my DVD/TV players look great to me...no image pauses and perfect sound.

Farewell old grumps!

[grandpabruce]

I will be happy to reply but this is my last post in this user's group.

With my new Panasonic camcorder, I use Windows Movie Maker and the USB cable that came with my camcorder (after installing the USB driver that came with my camcorder software).

The resulting *.avi files are used to create a DVD using Sonic MyDVD version 5 that I managed to recover from an image file backup after my poor results with EMC 9. The images on my DVD/TV players look great to me...no image pauses and perfect sound.

Farewell old grumps!

Grumps? Good grief. Well, since Gramma Pat isn't coming back, it would appear that this thread can now fade away.