No video when transferring with Sony HVR-M15U and Scenalyzer?
Hello all,
I recently got back to my DV transfer project. I am transferring mini HDV tapes using the Sony HVR-M15U deck and scenalyzer. I'm having an issue with seeing the video in scenalyzer, it allows me to control the deck but no video. I do get video if I turn on "i-link" in the deck, but video is horrible then. I also tried the legacy driver in device manager and no difference,still no video. the firewire card I am using does use the Texas instruments chipset. your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill |
Does WinDV work instead? Most DV transfer software is buggy.
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Ok, I tried it and its saying it cant find DV output pin.
Is this a driver issue? I'm running windows 7 pro x64, and using a 4-pin to 9-pin firewire cable(if that matters?) |
Try capturing with HDVSplit. Most DV capture programs are NOT able to properly handle HDV footage which is MPEG-2 transport streams over firewire ( .m2t files).
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Yep, you're right as usual. :congrats: |
Ok HDVsplit does work for my HDV tapes although it says:
"ERROR: HDVSPlit can't find MPEG1 audio decoder. Try to install and configure ffdshow. Audio is turned off." is there a way to fix that even though it seems to capture audio just fine? I also have regular DV tapes (not recorded in HD) and in order for them to play i have to go to the menu in the deck and switch playback from HDV to DV and as soon as i do that HDVsplit doesnt recognize the deck anymore(winDV and scenalyzer also dont recognise deck in DV mode as well):o Thank you. -- merged -- Well, I did get windows photo gallery to capture my DV tapes but it doesn't separate or recognize the timeline. does anyone have another suggestion? I just need something for DV capture, HDVsplit works for my HDV tapes but not DV. it seems the PC uses 2 different drivers, one for DV another for HDV. |
HDVSplit's preview is buggy and likely doesn't work with Windows 7, hence the error messages. Disable the preview and it should work fine. I never got it working correctly, I just monitor with my camcorder's built in LCD.
The two different drivers thing is normal. My Canon HV20 runs a completely different driver in DV mode. Typically footage isn't mixed between HDV and DV on the same tape, so it never posed a problem for me. I capture DV tapes with WinDV and HDV tapes with HDVSplit. I'm betting the Sony deck has 3 modes like my Canon HV20. 1. DV playback only 2. HDV playback only 3. Hybrid mode, which transcodes all HDV footage to DV format. (native DV video passes thru unchanged) |
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