[efcbluepete]

Hi,

hope somebody may be able to helpa newbie to video recording and editing.

I got a Samsung miniDV recorder for my general functions, from recording test set-up for work, to family stuff.

Only issues i have are when trying to get them on to the PC and then on to DVD.

the Samsung came with ULead Video Studio SE version 9.0, so it tends to pick up the camcorder when plugged in by firewire pretty easily. I then tend to rewind the tape that is in and just hit the video capture button on screen and it saves it down as a .AVI file. This is fine until I try to view it & realplayer says it can't fidn the audio and asks if I want to search for audio updates, I say yes, and it does nothing (or seems to do nothing).

Shoudl I dump ULead and use something else, or is there some sort of update I need to make it work properly? How do I then make it so the recorded work can be put into a viewable format for watching on a normal DVD player?

I am running it through a Sony Vaio VGN-FE550G with what appears to be reasonable spec (XP pro media centre edition, 12G HDD, 512M RAM, DVD+CD r/w/rw, etc). could this be the problem?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Pete

[jaymac]

First quickie you can try is capture to windows movie maker and see if you have the video and audio with that.On second thoughts open the file in wmm and see what you got.

[toadoftoadhall]

do the avi files play ok in Ulead VS ? If so all is well.

With the files loaded and edited in UVS, you have to click the "Share" tab.

This then gives you the option of saving it to a wmv, mpg, or dvd. Best to save to dvd file, and then burn the dvd with something like Nero if you have it, as a DVD video file.

toad

[senu]

Real player rather than the captured file may be the problem here. Your PCs specs seem respectable enough

Have you tried to play the AVI files in something other than real player.?
If it is the default player you can change that , otherwise right click the file and chose open with... then try something other than real player
There is the Windows media player, and VLC
There may be nothing wrong with Uleads program
You could also try downloading ( capturing ) from your camcorder with WIN DV
If real player is at fault and you like it that much you can reeinstall it or get the latest version off the internet
Im sure youll get there

[efcbluepete]

Thanks for all of the helpful replies.

have spent several hours on it last night and this morning and found that the audio driver had "disappeared" from the pc. went to Sony and downloaded the original driver, and hey presto, it works.

not sure how the audio driver disappeared, but have just installed sky broadband, so maybe it has done it - who knows what old Murdoch is up to when you click to accept the changes to internet explorer.

will get burning down the original file to DVD, as suggested by Toad, for no otherreason that as backup initially, whilst I then try to play about and do some editing.

again, thanks for the help.

Pete

[senu]

Originally Posted by efcbluepete

Thanks for all of the helpful replies.

have spent several hours on it last night and this morning and found that the audio driver had "disappeared" from the pc. went to Sony and downloaded the original driver, and hey presto, it works.

..........

will get burning down the original file to DVD, as suggested by Toad, for no otherreason that as backup initially, whilst I then try to play about and do some editing.

Be aware that 1 hr of DV AVI is 13Gb and youl need many DVDs to Back that up
If you Edit and make a DVD it will be a DVD video with mpeg2 ( normal file format for DVD video)
If you want to back up an edited AVI ( as AVI) : It is probably best to record it back to tape