VCR to Sony DV to movie maker

I have a problem trying to record old video tapes to movie maker. I connect my analog VCR to my Sony DV camera and then connected my Sony camera to my firewire card in my computer. I set the camera on VTR and start the VCR. The movie shows up just fine in the preview window in movie maker and on the LCD on my camera. Then I press start capture and movie maker then controls my camera and turns it on to play. So, movie maker records the tape that is in the camera and not the video coming from the VCR..

Anyway to solve this problem..please hel

Gary

You're trying to use the Digital camcorder as a pass thru unit. Take a look
at PapaJohn's website (www.papajohn.org).... on the left hand menu, click on
Problem Solving, then on Checklist. See the section marked Computer and
Movie Maker 2 limitations.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com

"Gary" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a problem trying to record old video tapes to movie maker. I connect
>my analog VCR to my Sony DV camera and then connected my Sony camera to my
>firewire card in my computer. I set the camera on VTR and start the VCR.
>The movie shows up just fine in the preview window in movie maker and on
>the LCD on my camera. Then I press start capture and movie maker then
>controls my camera and turns it on to play. So, movie maker records the
>tape that is in the camera and not the video coming from the VCR...
>
> Anyway to solve this problem..please help
>
> Gary

MM2 doesn't actually work with pass thru'. It may be easier to record to the
dv tape form the vhs and then capture to teh pc.
Graham
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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk
"Gary" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a problem trying to record old video tapes to movie maker. I
connect my analog VCR to my Sony DV camera and then connected my Sony camera
to my firewire card in my computer. I set the camera on VTR and start the
VCR. The movie shows up just fine in the preview window in movie maker and
on the LCD on my camera. Then I press start capture and movie maker then
controls my camera and turns it on to play. So, movie maker records the tape
that is in the camera and not the video coming from the VCR...
>
> Anyway to solve this problem..please help
>
> Gary

Gary,
If you want the best quality you'll need to work with the dv-avi file,
otherwise for lower quality and lower size files you can save as one of the
wmv versions.
Graham

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk

"Gary" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you, thank you, thank you....
>
> I've been trying to figure this out for months..and I downloaded the
windows capture 9 and the video passed through just like it
should....great...but, (there's always a but)..the sound didn't come
over...it came through choppy when using my firewire and not at all when I
brought it in separate through my "line in"...the audio capture buttons are
greyed out in the capture application...anyway, that's the next
problem...then I'll need to figure out how to convert the AVI file down to
to a much smaller file...
>
> Again, thanks for your help...