Recording to VCR and DV Problems

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I am using a All-Inwonder 8500 graphic card and have a seperate firewire and
USB2 card. I can run movie maker and play the movie I created and view it
fine on my monitor, I have a SyncMaster 150mp, so I can can PIP (picture in
picture) and use V1 (video 1) as the input from the VCR which feds from the
computer on the line out. I ran one movie and things went ok. Now I can see
the movie fine when viewing it in my monitor but in the PIP screen the music
only plays and the vidio portion is black. I tried to record the VCR tape
eventhough the PIP V1 line still showed black. But when I played back the
VCR only the sound was there.
I have a Sony Digital Handycam Digital 8 camera that has an IEEE1394 port.
I have set the camera so in the viewing screen I see DV IN I have a new tape
in the camera and when I try to save a movie to DV device Movie Maker can not
locate the device. I have used the Camera to send out video using the RCA
jacks through the caputre cord that comes with the All-Inwonder and I have no
problem with that. I have given up trying to contact ATI the maker of the
All-Inwonder. They are in Canada and my phone call bill has ended that method
of help.
In case you are wondering why I would record to VCR it is because I have a
large amount of family that do not own computers or DVD players. I thought
the quality of the movie would be better going into Digital from the computer
then I can transfer that to VCR.
How about movie length? I was having trouble with the movie size. too
big. When I divided my 30 minute movie into 3 10-minute movies I did not
have trouble with saving the move for the High Mat process to burn the movie
to the CD. I have just finish months of work on a family movie and need to
get this out.
I am using an IBM clone with plenty of storage. I need to up the ram I
realize but should I be adjusting the virtual memory? I am running on XP. I
don't mind buying a DVD burner but right now I would just like to record my
movie using my IEEE1394 firewire and digital camera. My divice manager
indicate my firewire port is ok. I have also used the USB2 ports on that
same card. I know this is quite the question but I am in need of an SOS and
I hope I have found it. Thanks
 
Save your 10 minute segments to DV-AVI files on your hard drive.... then
take the 3 segments into Movie Maker, put them together on the timeline and
save it to your camcorder via firewire....

the memory needed to do it is less than is needed to save each of the 10
minute segments.

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