My reply won't be much help to you, just the shared suffering ...
I have this problem as well. Only: Movie Maker did capture two videos from my Sony DCR-H16E, but from the third on that I tried to capture: Movie Maker freezes on the first frame.
I suspect this is not the only bug in the software. Movie Maker also seems to endlessly add "project" names which can never be deleted, so for every attempted capture, you get another (empty) entry in the list of "collections".
I see quite a number of similar questions on this platform. Maybe we should all file requests for patches or updates.