Unable To Capture Hd Video

[Bill Mason]

I have just upgraded to NXT3 and am unable to Capture Video from my Panasonic DC-TM20. It is connected via a USB Cable. The camera details are shown the Video Drop Down Box. a notice says "please wait" and then I get another notice saying "Capture Device Lost." I cannot play the camera whilst it is connected to my PC so cannot save the movie elsewhere.

 

It always worked fine with all other products such as NXT2, NXT, Creator 12 etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is the first time I have used NXT3.

 

Bill

[sknis]

I have just upgraded to NXT3 and am unable to Capture Video from my Panasonic DC-TM20. It is connected via a USB Cable. The camera details are shown the Video Drop Down Box. a notice says "please wait" and then I get another notice saying "Capture Device Lost." I cannot play the camera whilst it is connected to my PC so cannot save the movie elsewhere.

 

It always worked fine with all other products such as NXT2, NXT, Creator 12 etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is the first time I have used NXT3.

 

Bill

 

I looked at that camcorder's specs. If it is the one that I think it is, it records to an internal card or an external card. You would NOT capture from that camera; you would just COPY the videos to your computer. You would use Windows to do the copying; not NXT3.

[Bill Mason]

It copies on to a Memory Card or Hard Drive. I have recorded this movie on to the Hard Drive of the Camera. n connecting to the PC there is no facility to play or record the movie other than via Video Capture. I had tried opening in Windows etc but to no avail I have never had problem with NXT 2 or NXT.I am unable to make copy directly on to the computer from the had drive of the camera. I a operating in windows 7

[sknis]

It copies on to a Memory Card or Hard Drive. I have recorded this movie on to the Hard Drive of the Camera. n connecting to the PC there is no facility to play or record the movie other than via Video Capture. I had tried opening in Windows etc but to no avail I have never had problem with NXT 2 or NXT.I am unable to make copy directly on to the computer from the had drive of the camera. I a operating in windows 7

 

Bolded text: Then you have a problem with the USB connection to /from the camcorder/computer or with Windows 7. When you explore your computer with the camcorder plugged in, do you see two entries with Windows? If not, try another USB port (unless a laptop). Do not use a hub or a USB port on the front of your computer.

 

Even if you got it connected, the capture might force that camcorder to act as an internet USB camera.

 

The program won't work if it can't see the camcorder; and that would be a Windows or computer hardware problem.

[Bill Mason]

Thank you for your advice.

I do get two entries with Windows. Neither play.

I am connecting via a USB port on the front of my PC (not Laptop) so will try switching to the back of the Computer. I will get a new connector.

 

I have another system to edit Videos - Movie Plus X6. This picks up the movie in the camera Ok with the front USB and the same connector. I am able to download into the Serif Moviemaker. I am then able to Export Mpg files to a Folder from Serif and then download that file into Roxio NXT3.

 

This is not an ideal solution but I can at least get a movie from my Camera into Roxio via this method. I still need to get NXT3 properly operational so will try all the ideas you have put forward. I have only had NXT3 for a couple of weeks. Everything worked fine with NXT2.

[bimicher]

The only time you need to use "capture software" is when your camcorder uses tape as its storage media. With hard drive or SD cards you simply use Windows Explorer to copy the video files from the camcorder to your hard drive. Using "capture" is a waste of time.

 

What do you mean you get by "two entries with Windows. Neither play."?

[Jim_Hardin]

I hate to add to this but you are not looking in the right place...

 

Plug in your camcorder via USB.

 

Open Windows Explorer and look for something like this:

 

 

You see that this particular Camcorder shows up as 3 separate drives (H, I & J)

 

The top one is the removable memory card which contains both still and video files.

 

The middle is the built-in RAM (I don't use it) and the bottom one is the camcorder ROM containing software etc.

 

All you do is find your files you want and COPY them to your PC

 

I use a folder on the PC for each project.

[Bill Mason]

Wow. Some good information and something that I can experiment with. As you can gather I am not a computer"geek" so your diagrams will help me to find out the best way.

The thing that puzzles me is why Roxio NXT 2 opens them from the "Capture Video" of Roxio but NXt 3 does not. Has something changed or would it help if I Uninstalled and Installed again.

 

I have never tried anything with Windows Explorer so this is a new avenue for me to learn. I have been trying to play them with Windows Media Player, which is obviously wrong.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

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[Jim_Hardin]

... computers 'open' things based on many things. File Extensions are one but often we may have clicked one of those Questions, 'Do you want to open this type of file/device/drive with....'

 

Users often click OK because they do not know but figure that the computer does

 

So most likely you clicked something in NX2 that you have not in NX3. Even so, what I am showing is a much better way to handle files

[Bill Mason]

I have managed - but I have no idea how I did it.

 

I used Window Explorer and come up with 3 files from the Camera. ACCHD: DCIM: and MISC.

 

I then copied the one AVCHD into another Folder.

 

I then opened this file and was given three other Files AVCHDTN; BDMV and IISVPL. The first file, (AVCHDTN) when opened gave me THUMB.DTD and THUMB.TID which I could not open.

The next fie BDMV gave me four other files.CLIPLINE; PLAYLIST; STREAM; INDEX.BDM AND MOVIEOBJ.BDM.

 

As the most likely source of Video was STREAM I opened this one and was confronted with a whole list of sequential numbers. Each of these numbers, when clicked on was a scene from the HD Camcorder.

 

I then opened Roxio and was able to drag these across into Videowave.

 

If I double clicked on these numbers I was able to see the clip in a small box in the top left of my screen. I was unable to create a Thumbnail clip of these numbers to enable me to see what was in the clip. Any advice on how I could do this.

 

At least I can get somewhere but it seems very long winded.

 

Thank you for all your help so far.

[sknis]

Look in the DCIM folder. That is usually where the files are stored.

 

Are you sure that when doing the copying that you didn't accidentally switch to a different drive?

[d_deweywright]

Steve, the DCIM folder on my video camera is where the still photos are stored. The STREAM folder has the video clips.

[Jim_Hardin]

The mts or m2ts files in the Stream Folder are the video files or clips.

 

Each time you click Record a new file is created AND anytime a file reaches 4GB it is stopped and a new file created.

 

You need to load the clips (files) sequentially into VideoWave and you will have a Project.

 

Use the Dates they were created to keep things intact