Import .mpg from camcorder?

[fn220]

I think I might have purchased the wrong product!? I bought Roxio easy VHS to DVD software directly from the company. I am going to use this feature at some point but I'd also like to use the Roxio software to just import mpg files directly from my Sony Handycam 60GB camera and burn a DVD from that? I've been trying to do this for a few hours but it only burns the start up screen? Do I have to actually be PLAYING the video on my camcorder (never mind all the ambient noise!) for this to work?? I guess I wanted 1 software to convert VHS to DVD and just burn DVD's from my camcorder? Is this the software for this?

Thank you!

[bimicher]

I think I might have purchased the wrong product!? I bought Roxio easy VHS to DVD software directly from the company. I am going to use this feature at some point but I'd also like to use the Roxio software to just import mpg files directly from my Sony Handycam 60GB camera and burn a DVD from that? I've been trying to do this for a few hours but it only burns the start up screen? Do I have to actually be PLAYING the video on my camcorder (never mind all the ambient noise!) for this to work?? I guess I wanted 1 software to convert VHS to DVD and just burn DVD's from my camcorder? Is this the software for this?

Thank you!

 

 

VHS2DVD is for capturing video from a analog camcorder or VCR to mpg or avi video. You cannot use it to capture from dicagital camcorders. In fact there is no need to capture from your digital camcorder, simply copy the mpg files from the comcorder to your hard drive. Then launch myDVD (Create DVDs) and add the mpg file and proceed to burn.

[fn220]

VHS2DVD is for capturing video from a analog camcorder or VCR to mpg or avi video. You cannot use it to capture from dicagital camcorders. In fact there is no need to capture from your digital camcorder, simply copy the mpg files from the comcorder to your hard drive. Then launch myDVD (Create DVDs) and add the mpg file and proceed to burn.

OK. Where do I launch myDVD (Create DVDs) from the RoxioVHS2DVD software?Or maybe it's not Roxio? Windows Media? I like to burn my DVDs with loop music, certain Menu styles, etc.

[fn220]

OK. Where do I launch myDVD (Create DVDs) from the RoxioVHS2DVD software?Or maybe it's not Roxio? Windows Media? I like to burn my DVDs with loop music, certain Menu styles, etc.

Never mind! I found it. Thank you so much! This is exactly the other part of the software I was looking for.

[fn220]

Never mind! I found it. Thank you so much! This is exactly the other part of the software I was looking for.

I did notice that Roxio takes the entire mpg file OFF my camcorder when it burns it. My other software left it on the camcorder until I manually deleted it. Is this a setting in Roxio I need to change?

[bimicher]

I did notice that Roxio takes the entire mpg file OFF my camcorder when it burns it. My other software left it on the camcorder until I manually deleted it. Is this a setting in Roxio I need to change?

 

Can you explain exactly what you did? Your post doesn't make any sense since Roxio does not "remove" software from a camcorder, at least I have never heard of such a thing happening.

You don't even need Roxio to copy the mpg file from your camcorder to your PC.

[fn220]

Can you explain exactly what you did? Your post doesn't make any sense since Roxio does not "remove" software from a camcorder, at least I have never heard of such a thing happening.

You don't even need Roxio to copy the mpg file from your camcorder to your PC.

OK. I opened the Roxio software 1.1.125 SP2. Clicked Videos/Movies (left-hand column).Create. Create DVDs.Add New Movie (under Menu Tasks). I found my mpg which is a K:/ drive since I only "hooked up" my camcorder: it reads my Sony HandyCam like an external device. Clicked "Add". And then "Burn". Works great. I can add Music and certain Menu Styles, etc. But when I go back to my HandyCam (after the DVD is burned), it cannot find the file on the camcorder?? I used Sony's awful Pixela software for the longest time but it never removed my mpgs from the camera after burning. Does this make sense? I've looked everything to see a Roxio setting that might say "leave video file on camera after import" or something. Can you help? I might want to save files on my camera that I've already burned. Thank you!

[grandpabruce]

I did notice that Roxio takes the entire mpg file OFF my camcorder when it burns it. My other software left it on the camcorder until I manually deleted it. Is this a setting in Roxio I need to change?

 

It does? Not a chance, even if you do something silly like "plug and burn".

[fn220]

It does? Not a chance, even if you do something silly like "plug and burn".

Interestingly "Plug and Burn" is worse because Roxio will only recognize that Video Capture USB?? So I finally figured out how to plug the camcorder into THAT. But you gave me the idea of an easier way. I think I figured out that I was not "copying" the mpg file to burn but I was "cutting" it. So it removed the original from the camcorder. Now I've got it...finally.

[bimicher]

Interestingly "Plug and Burn" is worse because Roxio will only recognize that Video Capture USB?? So I finally figured out how to plug the camcorder into THAT. But you gave me the idea of an easier way. I think I figured out that I was not "copying" the mpg file to burn but I was "cutting" it. So it removed the original from the camcorder. Now I've got it...finally.

 

Roxio does not remove anything from your camcorder

No, I don't think you got it at all. I have no idea what you are doing. You have a digital camcorder that records to a hard drive. You should not be using the USb capture device at all. You should connect the camcorder directly to a USB port on your PC. Windows Explorer will recognize the camcorder as another drive and you then simply use Windows Explorer to copy the mpg file from the camcorder to your hard drive. You can now remove you camcorder.

Only now do you launch Videowave or myDVD and add the mpg file that you had copied to your hard drive. You don't need the camcorder to be connected.

[Jim_Hardin]

Actually Plug and Burn will use anything that is available, the Roxio USB Device, a camcorder hooked in by Firewire, a Web Cam, anything that outputs a viable Windows video signal. Your camcorder does not, so you cannot expect software to make up for its' lack of that ability…

 

Personally, copying files is a great plus compared to waiting on capture. I recently added memory stick camcorder and I am just delighted that I don’t have to capture anymore! Just shove the memory stick into a card reader and move the files to a project folder!

 

I move them (deleting the mem stick files) to my HDD keeping my card free for 2 1/2 hours of HD video. – too bad V2D doesn't output HD. But for $60 I guess you can't have everything

 

[fn220]

I'm not using the USB Capture device, of course, when I'm not converting VHS to DVD. It just took me a while to figure this out. I didn't really understand how VHS2DVD software worked. I got frustrated because the Plug and Burn aspect wouldn't recognize my camcorder. But now I understand that it's a video signal input only.

[Jim_Hardin]

I'm not using the USB Capture device, of course, when I'm not converting VHS to DVD. It just took me a while to figure this out. I didn't really understand how VHS2DVD software worked. I got frustrated because the Plug and Burn aspect wouldn't recognize my camcorder. But now I understand that it's a video signal input only.

Sounds like you are making great progress!

 

I almost passed out a few years ago when MAC was advertising that making a DVD was click & smile It is no different on a MAC, you must capture, (optional edit) and burn just like everybody else…