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[drljhl]

I have shot home videos on my Sony Digital 8 camcorder (DCR-TRV 340) and want to transfer/caputure/import to the Easy Media Creator 10 program so that the videos can be edited.  I have Windows XP Professional, version 2002, SP3 operating system on an intel pentium 2 GB RAM computer with an ASUS Redeon 9600 SE AGP video card.  I connect my camcorder in the VCR mode to my computer via an IEEE 1394 firewire.  Using Media Import to transfer/capture/import from the camcorder to the computer in the smartscan mode, clips are made but when it comes to a certain point in the tape, the "capture" hangs up (it goes so far and then starts at the beginning of the clip again).  When I use the normal mode, clips/scenes are made, but then only one clip is produced at the end.  It is difficult to try to edit an hour long video from one clip.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anybody help?

[sknis]

I have shot home videos on my Sony Digital 8 camcorder (DCR-TRV 340) and want to transfer/caputure/import to the Easy Media Creator 10 program so that the videos can be edited.  I have Windows XP Professional, version 2002, SP3 operating system on an intel pentium 2 GB RAM computer with an ASUS Redeon 9600 SE AGP video card.  I connect my camcorder in the VCR mode to my computer via an IEEE 1394 firewire.  Using Media Import to transfer/capture/import from the camcorder to the computer in the smartscan mode, clips are made but when it comes to a certain point in the tape, the "capture" hangs up (it goes so far and then starts at the beginning of the clip again).  When I use the normal mode, clips/scenes are made, but then only one clip is produced at the end.  It is difficult to try to edit an hour long video from one clip.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anybody help?

If there is a gap or break in the tape, the capture will stop.  No way of fixing that.

I wish that I could get my capture all as one.    Open Video Wave and navigate to the file.  Switch to the My Media Folder.  There will be a small broken arrow down at the bottom right of the thumbnail.  Click on that and you will see the scenes.

Sorry, I don't have EMC 10 to show you but this is what it looks like.

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[myguggi]

I have shot home videos on my Sony Digital 8 camcorder (DCR-TRV 340) and want to transfer/caputure/import to the Easy Media Creator 10 program so that the videos can be edited.  I have Windows XP Professional, version 2002, SP3 operating system on an intel pentium 2 GB RAM computer with an ASUS Redeon 9600 SE AGP video card.  I connect my camcorder in the VCR mode to my computer via an IEEE 1394 firewire.  Using Media Import to transfer/capture/import from the camcorder to the computer in the smartscan mode, clips are made but when it comes to a certain point in the tape, the "capture" hangs up (it goes so far and then starts at the beginning of the clip again).  When I use the normal mode, clips/scenes are made, but then only one clip is produced at the end.  It is difficult to try to edit an hour long video from one clip.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anybody help?

As Steve posted, if there is a small gap on the tape the capture will hang.

Actually, I never capture the whole tape in one session. I prefer to have the video in small clips. For this reason I use a small free utility called WinDV which will capture your tape into separate files based on the timestamp of your video. This makes it very easy to edit since you are only working with small clips and not with a huge GB sized file.