capture sound problem

[Guest]

Hi
Windows moviemaker
I have a camcorder input through a capture card. It dosn't capture the sound
though.
I tried with the s video cable and the red white yellow cable. I also tried
to capture sound seperately with a jack cable- the mute button is off!
Anyone point out what may be wrong?
Thanks

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Audio should go to the Line In on the soundcard.....

Click on the speaker icon in the System Tray to launch the Play Control....
then on Options, Properties.... Click on the RECORDING line... and check
that Line In is not set to Mute for Recording. If you don't do this step,
you're only checking on the Playback option.

 

[Guest]

Audio should go to the Line In on the soundcard.....

Click on the speaker icon in the System Tray to launch the Play Control....
then on Options, Properties.... Click on the RECORDING line... and check
that Line In is not set to Mute for Recording. If you don't do this step,
you're only checking on the Playback option.
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows



Cari, I've had this trouble for years and I thought your ideas would fix it. Sadly, they didn't.
I have two video programs on my laptop - Pixela Imagemixer 1.5 for Sony and MS Moviemaker. The first is a bit old but it gives me sound; Moviemaker still doesn't. Can anyone tell me WHY???
Pixela came with my Sony Digital8 Handicam and it controls the camera via the mouse. My laptop is Toshiba Satellite A45 2.75GHz, 768Mb SDram, with Soundmax Digital Audio.

What am I doing Wrong??

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Windows Movie Maker is really designed for digital camcorder imput (ie
firewire) which is both audio and video through the one single cable. It
really doesn't like analog very much.

You might want to try Intervideo's WinDVD Creator v2 or v3 and/or
Cyberlink's PowerDirector. Both capture analog video quite nicely.

 

[Guest]

I'M NOT ANALOG! If you read my message again you'll see I have said;
DIGITAL camera! I'm connecting by USB 2, which I'm told is faster than
Firewire(isn't it?), and it also carries both the video and audio signal.
Maybe I didn't make it clear, but I use the same single usb2 cable to carry
video and audio to Pixela Imagemixer which gives me both pics and noises.
Why does Moviemaker only give me pics?
What am I doing wrong?

Tony
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[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

No, in the real world, it isn't faster. Use firewire.

 

[Guest]

Sorry if I sounded a bit irritable last time... it'd been a long day. It's
past my bedtime now ... 11pm here. But, I'm more cheerful now becos I've
plugged in by IEEE1394A (firewire) and I now get sound from MS Moviemaker.
Great!!
But why? Why did'nt I get Moviemaker with sound thru usb2? when I did with
Pixela?
Anyway, I'll use firewire from now on, and see what other joys it brings.

Many thanks! Regards , Tonysom

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

I believe WMM recognizes a USB connection as an analog one, though I'm not
entirely sure. Anyway, in the digital video world, IEEE1394 is THE way to
go.