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[Art_F]

I'm a first time user, so sorry if there's any redundancy here, but I haven't seen this issue come up in any other threads.

I'm trying to capture audio/video from a Sony Handycam Vision CCD-TRV608. It records on Hi8 tapes. The camera has an S-Video jack, and a single RCA jack for sound.

I'm using a 12' S-Video cable, but I don't see any signal loss on the video.

For the audio, I'm using a single RCA jack that splits to two (red and white). I can capture sound, but I get a terrible buzzing sound, both through the speakers when I have enabled Audio Preview, and also on the audio that's captured when I play back. I haven't burned to DVD yet, but I assume that the buzzing would be there as well. When I disconnect the white RCA audio plug, the sound remains; when I replug the white and disconnect the red, the sound disappears on both the speakers and the playback, but of course the audio isn't in stereo anymore - only on the left channel. As you would expect, muting Audio Preview eliminates the buzzing sound through the speakers, but not on playback of course. When both red and white are connected, and I slide the balance control on my volume control to the left, the buzz disappears; to the right, it's back.

The buzzing sound is similar to the sound you would hear when an OLD turntable wasn't properly grounded. I tried using an Audio System Ground Loop Isolator, but no help.

When trying to capture, I'm going off the Home screen, and selecting Capture Video, not Plug and Burn. My capture setting is "DVD HQ", and my input is set to S-Video. I'm using an HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 and running Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP 3. I meet all minimum requirements for the program. I'm not sure how to figure out what audio card (I think it's a Realtek HD Audio) and video card I have, or if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

[myguggi]

I'm a first time user, so sorry if there's any redundancy here, but I haven't seen this issue come up in any other threads.

I'm trying to capture audio/video from a Sony Handycam Vision CCD-TRV608. It records on Hi8 tapes. The camera has an S-Video jack, and a single RCA jack for sound.

I'm using a 12' S-Video cable, but I don't see any signal loss on the video.

For the audio, I'm using a single RCA jack that splits to two (red and white). I can capture sound, but I get a terrible buzzing sound, both through the speakers when I have enabled Audio Preview, and also on the audio that's captured when I play back. I haven't burned to DVD yet, but I assume that the buzzing would be there as well. When I disconnect the white RCA audio plug, the sound remains; when I replug the white and disconnect the red, the sound disappears on both the speakers and the playback, but of course the audio isn't in stereo anymore - only on the left channel. As you would expect, muting Audio Preview eliminates the buzzing sound through the speakers, but not on playback of course. When both red and white are connected, and I slide the balance control on my volume control to the left, the buzz disappears; to the right, it's back.

The buzzing sound is similar to the sound you would hear when an OLD turntable wasn't properly grounded. I tried using an Audio System Ground Loop Isolator, but no help.

When trying to capture, I'm going off the Home screen, and selecting Capture Video, not Plug and Burn. My capture setting is "DVD HQ", and my input is set to S-Video. I'm using an HP Pavilion AMD Athlon 64 and running Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP 3. I meet all minimum requirements for the program. I'm not sure how to figure out what audio card (I think it's a Realtek HD Audio) and video card I have, or if this makes a difference.

Any thoughts?

Have you tried another Y-cable? What happens when you reverse the red-white connections? Does the noise follow the "red" cable? What happens when you connect the red-white to a TV? Do you get the noise?

[Art_F]

Looks like it might be the Y audio cable - I just tried it with Roxio's RecordNow 9 Music Lab Premier, and also on Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5, just trying to grab the audio from the camera, and both times I get the buzz on the right channel only. Removing red fixes the problem, and swapping the white on the Y cable into the red on the Roxio multi-adapter solves the issue, and swapping the red from the Y cable into the white on the Roxio multi-adapter recreates the problem on the left channel. Should have figured it'd be a bad cable. I'll try a new one and let you know. Thanks.