Analog capture using moviemaker

[Randy]

I have a Sony analog camera and a lot of old analog tapes that I would like
to edit in movie maker.
I have two questions:
1) I understand that analog capture using movie maker is a “hit or missâ€
thing, mostly misses. What are the major problems? Does it typically drop
frames, not make clips, crash, or what?

2) I have a Sony Media Converter that changes the Sony analog to digital for
movie maker capture. But it makes one long clip. The make clips feature
does not work either during the capture or after.
Do you think my Sony analog-media converter would work with Vista movie
maker and automatically make clips during capture?
Thanks,
Randy

 

[Graham Hughes]

1. Mostly just doesn't work at all.
2. Who knows, maybe not, but you could try it and see

 

[Randy]

Thanks for your response, Graham.
Randy
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RR

1. Mostly just doesn't work at all.
2. Who knows, maybe not, but you could try it and see

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

 

[Saga]

What I have done is use a video capture card/device that supports video
in from an analog source, such as NTSC composite.

I start up the video source, capture the video to a file and then import it
to Movie Maker. To create clips I just start and stop the video source
for eac clip that I want.

It has always been a two step process:

1. Get analog video into video file (mpg, avi, wmv)
2. Import into MovieMaker

Of course, if the captured video is in a format not directly supported
by MovieMaker then this process needs the extra step of converting the
captured video to something that MovieMaker likes

Saga

 

[Randy]

Thanks, Saga.
Randy
--
RR

What I have done is use a video capture card/device that supports video
in from an analog source, such as NTSC composite.

I start up the video source, capture the video to a file and then import it
to Movie Maker. To create clips I just start and stop the video source
for eac clip that I want.

It has always been a two step process:

1. Get analog video into video file (mpg, avi, wmv)
2. Import into MovieMaker

Of course, if the captured video is in a format not directly supported
by MovieMaker then this process needs the extra step of converting the
captured video to something that MovieMaker likes

Saga