Captured file is half-length and plays at double speed!

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I've used WMM several times to capture video from a Sony digital 8 camcorder.
The connection is firewire. I save the whole tape as an AVI file and then
edit it later. I've never had a problem before.

But today, I try to capture the tape and here's what happens: the tape plays
properly in the camera (I can see and hear it in the camera) but for ever 60
seconds shown on the camera's viewfinder, the counter in WMM tells me I've
captured 30 seconds of video. In other words, the WMM counter runs at half
the speed as the camera's counter.

Sure enough, when I play the file back after it's captured, it's running at
double speed. And when I examine the file in My Computer, it's half the
physical size it should be.

I can't find any settings in WMM that would appear to affect this. What am
I doing wrong??

Note: the video capture in InterVideo WinDVD still works fine, but it
doesn't have a save-as-AVI function. WinDVD and WMM have always coexisted
peacefully on this PC, so that's not it either...
 
No, that didn't help -- I restored the system as far back as it'll restore,
and then I disabled literally all of the choices. Still the same thing.
Anyone have any other ideas? This is incredibly annoying -- it used to work
fine and I haven't made any system or install changes at all!
 
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