Sending to DV Camera - not working

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Scot

I tried to send a completed project back to a Sony
Digital Camera (DCR-TRV120). The wizard took me through
the process and all seemed to work fine. When I tried to
play it back on the camera, it was mostly blue screen
with brief 1/2 second sporadid clips of video throughout
the < 2 minute project.

Anyone else seen this? Anyone else figured out a fix?

I then saved the same project as an AVI file, and used
Nero to encode the AVI to MPEG and burned it to a VCD.
Finished product looked fairly good on a DVD player.

I am using a Gateway P4 1.8 GHz machine with 256MB of
memory & 80GB harddrive, XP Home with Movie Maker 2.
 
I had the same problem using my work laptop and a Sony DCR-TRV33 camera
connected using a 4 pin/4 pin firewire cable. I then tried it at home where
my home computer has 6 pin firewire connections and everything worked fine
using a 4 pin/6 pin cable. Reading the leaflet that came with my 4 pin/4
pin cable it says it is for connecting a DV camcorder to another DV
camcorder or VCR and it doesn't mention computers. I don't know, but it may
be the case that for video editing and sending back to your camera you need
a six pin firewire connection on your PC. Perhaps someone else can give a
definitive answer on this one.

Brendan
 
I had the same problem using my work laptop and a Sony DCR-TRV33 camera
connected using a 4 pin/4 pin firewire cable. I then tried it at home where
my home computer has 6 pin firewire connections and everything worked fine
using a 4 pin/6 pin cable. Reading the leaflet that came with my 4 pin/4
pin cable it says it is for connecting a DV camcorder to another DV
camcorder or VCR and it doesn't mention computers. I don't know, but it may
be the case that for video editing and sending back to your camera you need
a six pin firewire connection on your PC. Perhaps someone else can give a
definitive answer on this one.

Brendan
 
I have since spoken to Sony who say that the number of pins on the firewire
cable don't matter - therefore speak to Microsoft as it must be a Windows
Movie Maker 2 issue. Not really very helpful!

Brendan
 
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