I can't figure it out!

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foggytown

I have some digital videos on Sony Digital 8 format and I decided to
transfer them to my PC and thence to CD or DVD. So I rigged up the
cable between the HandyCam and the PC and opened WMM and clicked on
record, started the camera in playback. Everything worked like a charm
and I ended up with a nice .WMV file (7.5 MB)which plays well through
Windows Media Player. Great!

Then why can't I do the same thing with the second tape? I've tried it
with and without using clips (final size either way only about 27 MB)
but I always get the same problem. It only takes about 2 seconds for
WMM to save the movie as the final step of the process. Much too
little time. Whenever I try to play the saved WMV file on Media Player
the player immediately says "stopped" and shows nothing. If I try to
play the time line it plays fine. And then when I try to click on a
clip afterwards I get told by WMM that the file isn't there any longer.
And when I check the properties of the .WMV file it's only about 7 or
8 KB, i.e. there's only about one frame there even though I told it to
involve about 120 clips to make the final movie.

I have no idea what's going on. I even went to Microsoft site and
tried to download the 2.1 version of WMM but all I got was a bunch of
security updates.

Anyone help me here?

FoggyTown
 
Sounds like a case of Windows having a short term memory.... doing something
once but not again.

The cable you rigged up... maybe the USB cable for transferring still images
and low quality video. Movie Maker captures Digital Video (DV-AVI) files
from digital camcorders via a firewire connection.
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