Problem with DV capture :-(

[sigol]

Hi Hope you can help...

I have a Sony DCR-PC110E PAL. I am trying to capture 1hr 30m of DV video from the camera to my PC but I am having probs...

I am using Firewire.

If I use DVApp, the video captures fine but the audio is lost after about 16 mins (the end of the first clip).

If I run the video through the camera and watch it on the camera's LCD screen, the video and audio are perfect all the way through.

So, I tried Adobe Premiere Pro's capture. It stops after the first scene with an error message: "Can't find timecode during capture".

It sounds like the tape has become corrupt but like I say, I can watch the whole movie perfectly through the viewfinder or LCD (with full audio).

I can't find a reliable way of getting the tape captured on to my PC. PC is high-spec:

Dell Dimension 8300. Pentium 4 3.4 GHz. 3 GB RAM. 500 GB SCSI HD.
Firewire on motherboard. Dual Radeon 9800 XT video cards.

**PLEEEEASE**** help me!

Regards,

Sigol.

[FOO]

Try more apps. Try DVIO

[guns1inger]

Looks like the stopping and starting the camera has screwed up the timecodes. Try capturing as a single clip, rather than scene by scene.

To reduce the chance of this happening in the future, record once over the entire tape with the lens cap on. This will lay down a timecode from end to end.

[aanaravs]

Also try using ScLive. This is one software that I have captured successfully from.

[sigol]

Thanks guys!

I'll try both these tools. Also, once I get it captured [hopefully] I'll blank the tape as you suggest.

Regards,

Sigol.

[State Of Mind]

Use WinDV. Pretty much the same concept as DVIO but gives you a preview window.

[omer123]

I happened to have the same problem right now,just came out of nowhere.
The problem is not the tape because I tried like 4 different ones including one that has been taped a black screen from beginnig to end.
The other apps didn't solve the problem:I still get dropped frames (which never happened to me before with DV capture).
Any ideas why?